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Posts tagged “media room”

Historic Tech Makeover: Oliver Schick's Living Space

Taking on a 110 square meter historic building, Oliver Schick interior design encourages modern thinking and home tech incorporation into a small, vintage package. The result is a very built-in look (...

Flickr Find: A Packed Entertainment Center

Admittedly, it's difficult to keep a sleek, uncluttered entertainment center when you're a fan of movies and video games and all of the consoles, cords and clamshell cases that come along with them. B...

How to... Paint a Ceiling Speaker Grill

So you're finally the proud owner of a home and you're ready to set up the most rocking home theater that anyone on the block has ever seen. You've installed an enormous pull-down projector screen and...

A Media Set-Up With a Softer Side

We're always on the look out for cool media set-ups. This is one of those set-ups. We're big fans of decorating around a flat screen mounted on the wall. In this scenario we especially like the vases...

Close-Up: A Godly Attic Media Room Renovation

click for more picsAfter a year's hard labor, Sylt's finally ready to show us his attic media room designed for media gods, made all the more convincing with beautifully crafted mahogany chairs shaped...

Inspiration: Accented Media Walls with Wallpaper

For us, a media room should be something more than just a projector screen or LCD HDTV accompanied by some fancy seating. It should be a place for you to unwind, relax, and enjoy a movie under the mos...

Ikea Hacked from the Media Center to the Office

We spotted this clever transformation on Ikea Hacker: Suphi and Ebrar, a couple from Istanbul, had a few Ikea pieces in their media room that out wore their welcome. Rather than turn to Craigslist or&...

Asus Eee Box PC makes HDTV Connectivity a Cinch

The Asus Eee Box PC is one heckuva good-lookin' desktop computing machine. When we heard the first version, the Asus Eee Box B202, was coming to the States, we were ecstatic. Now, the newer Asus Eee B...

Roundup: 10 Best Media Rooms

There's no one way to set up your media room. You can hide your TV, display it like a piece of artwork, skip the surround sound, or go all out. Luckily with the right furniture, you can make your med...

The Media-Wired Bath: New Trend?

Yesterday's post about TV in the bathroom got us thinking: How much tech do we really use in our bathrooms? We stumbled upon an article in This Old House that reminded us that Americans spend more on ...

Roundup: Top 10 Uses of Color in Tech Centric Rooms

As Ryan noticed last week, bringing color to a room monopolized by a computer can keep your workspace looking more like a home than an office. After the jump, we take a look at the top 10 home office...

Blogging New York Times: Silver Lake Renovation Adds Corked Media Room

Today's New York Times features a Home & Garden story looking at David Bernardi Silver Lake Los Angeles home. The senior vice president of Imagine Entertainment, the production company started by Ron ...