Electronic House sifts through, selects 25 greatest DIY home theaters

Electronic House recently published their 2010 Home of the Year award winners, but one thing those medal swingers were lacking was a tried-and-true DIY touch. Sure, there's no doubt that cold, hard cheddar can buy a fairly swank home cinema, but it's another chore entirely to piece one together with your own two hands, using your own vacation time and fending off screams from spouses, children and fellow constituents. Now, the aforementioned site has crawled through AVS Forum in search of the top 25 DIY home theaters, and after what can only be described as a Herculean search, the proverbial cream has risen. From a Pirates of the Caribbean-inspired lair to one of the tightest attic-squeezed setups we've ever seen, it's (just about) all there in the source link. Have a gander to get your own creative juices flowing, and feel free to drop images of your own layout in comments below if you somehow got slighted here.

[Joeyjoejoe Shabadoo Posted May 19th 2010 12:20AM]

Why does it seem that noone pushes past the 100" screen mark. If you own a projector take it out all the way.

[glennS Posted May 19th 2010 3:41AM]

@Joeyjoejoe Shabadoo

Mine is 110". There is actually such a thing as too big. If you sit closer than about 1.5 times the width of your screen then a lot of people get eye strain after a 90 minute movie. That is because your eyes actually have to keep moving to follow the action from side to side, I think.

[frizbplaya Posted May 19th 2010 11:07AM]

@Joeyjoejoe Shabadoo
For the same reason no one sits in the front row of a movie theater