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Posts tagged “media room”

Super Bowl Party Hosting Duties Decided by Setup?

Some parties are all about the people. You work the room and have a great time chatting with friends. Then others, like the ones centered around the upcoming Super Bowl, are all about the TV. So how d...

Tess and Jesse's Basement Studio
Tech Tour

Name: artist Tess, scientist Jesse, dachshund Pepper, & chinchilla Skitchman Location: Pittsburgh, PA Size: ~500 sq. ft. basement Years lived in: 4.5 months Tess and Jesse's basement serves not onl...

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 ...