As part of creating the new theater room, I need to fill in what used to be a large closet door opening and restructure the wall studs to allow for speakers, tv, etc to fit properly in the walls. As part of this, I'll also be creating a new A/V room to house all the theater room equipment and to serve as the main hub for all the network equipment, cable, etc for the house.
So, here's a look at the opening from inside the theater room.
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| before. |
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| And, after... |
Doesn't look like much from that side, but I had to restructure the entire span of the studs in the wall. In the center of the span of the wall, there was a main support for the beam made up of four studs, two each nailed together, and a horizontal stud to bind them all together. Since that support would mess up my plans to place a center channel speaker right in the middle of the wall, I created two similar supports on either side of this main support and also repositioned all the stud-work to be 24" on center across the whole wall. All the electric work was weaving its way through that main support too, so I moved some of it and completely removed most of it.
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| Main support is there in the middle where the light is. |
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| You can see I've already filled in the opening here. |
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| Wall completely reworked. You can see the footprint of the new A/V room here too. |
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