Finally got all the finish work done on this and wanted to show it off. Nothing like trying to install a HT with nothing but a 5' wide wall with a fireplace underneath it. No place for front speakers, or a center, no place for components and scant possibilities of getting wires to the rear wall but here we go anyway.
First I knocked a small hole in this wall to see if there was indeed a large void. Bingo. After some measuring I would have just enough room to put in a cabinet and keep enough width for components. Then I had to drop power and cable from the attic and reroute the gas line.
So the problem of front speakers was solved with Artison Portrait LCR's.
But then I needed to get wires to the rear wall but we have 20' vaulted ceilings. I fished the wire up through the upstairs closet into a small crawlspace and then down the roofline and into the outside wall. Lots of blocking meants about 20 holes that I had to mud(usually twice), sand, texture(sometimes twice), and paint. But I got those suckers to come out right behind the speakers. I used Artison Sketch LCR's for the rear so I would have a rear center without having to mount another speaker. No place to put it any way.
Components roughed in for setup.
Next I had to build a cabinet for the space. It sounds so simple to build a box and put it in a hole with shelves but it is a royal PITA. Rough frame the hole, build the box, adjust and plane the box, install the box, caulk seams and countersinks, install adjustable rails, tape shelf fronts, case it, and paint. Oh yes, but first put the sub below it and cut a hole in the wall and find a way to cover it. This way is temporary til I come up with a better solution but it really doesn't look that bad.
No line of sight to components so everything is RF to the base station. You can just see the wireless ethernet connection to the right of the RF base. We also painted like crazy and put in some slate around the fireplace.
And that's a wrap.
