So, this is our first house WITHOUT any kind of room-mates. (big step for me.)
It's a duplex in a private lot (basically a really long double-wide cut in half, with extensions build on)
It was total crap when we moved in, but it's coming along nicely and allowing for a lot of renovations and color schemes.
The cool thing is that the landlord's maintenance guy/ business partner brings me paint, building supplies for free. We also have the go-ahead from the landlord to do WHATEVER we want, as long as we don't paint all the walls black.
Since I only have one common room, I wanted to make it really count, so all the audio/video goes in there, and it's going to be the most decorated. We're going for a 1930-1945 air force bombshell theme. I.E.- drab green wall, framed pictures of "The dragon and his tail" (google it) and other similar paintings. And corrugated aluminum for baseboard.
For equipment, I got a Hitachi 55vs69 LCd Projection TV in trade for my junky laptop that was on its way out. Bulb had about 600 hours on it. Not bad.
It has my receiver, center channel, ps3, and htpc mounted under it and had tons of storage down there on nice glass shelves. Got the projector screen mounted to the ceiling that pulls down over it for watching movies. Projector going to be mounted on an in-wall shelf on the back wall.
Pictures tomorrow when there is light.