Movie Tent
Bright Living Room to Dark Home Theater
Five minutes converts your bright living room
into a dark home theater.
The bright room before the screen is pulled down.
The screen with windows open, too bright!
The black out blinds still not enough due to bright walls,
white ceilings, cream carpets and distracting bookshelves.
Time for the MovieTent!
MovieTent consists of black velvet, three poles, ceiling hooks and rings.
Lay the velvet facing down in front of the screen.
There are three holes marked in white for inserting the rods.
The poles are supported by rings on the screen housing and ceiling hooks
five feet from the screen, two hooks inserted the width
of the screen housing and one in the center.
Rods slide into rings and ceiling hooks to create the frame for the velvet
INSTALLATION
With the velvet facing face down place a rod under it and insert into the left hole.
Raise the velvet and slide the rod into the left ring on the housing and the left ceiling hook
the right screen housing ring and the right ceiling hook.
The MovieTent is now securely hung
Adjust the velvet to cover the sides and ceiling in front of the screen
Turn the lights off and experience
a dark cinema experience in five minutes or less
BEFORE and AFTER MOVIETENT Comparison
The list of supplies to do it yourself.
- 100 inch screen (my optimum size)
- 8 meters of velvet cloth - enough to hang comfortably to ground
- 3 cup hooks and 3 drywall anchors able to hold 5 kilos or 10 pounds
- 1 pack of SYRLIG Ikea small ring curtain clips to attach to screen housing
- 3 six foot garden plastic & metal poles (bendable but strong)
- optional velvet to lay on floor and hang from bottom of screen for total black out
- store Movietent in an Ikea soft storage box out of the way
nice job
ReplyDeleteThanks Henry: I updated the process and now only use the poles to hang the velvet. the poles attach to rings I secured to the screen housing and hang off three hooks at the other end close to the viewer. Less than 5 minutes up and down and the velvet can adjust on poles for a cleaner fit.
DeleteDo you have some more pictures, what are the poles used for and how are they attached? Would you say repeatedly folding and unfolding the velvet cloth affects it in a bad way?
ReplyDeleteI have updated the process. The poles now slide into rings I attached to both sides of the screen container and they simply slide into the hooks closer to the viewer. Once the velvet hangs freely from the poles I marked the spot on the velvet. I then cut very small holes about 6 inches from the edge of the velvet at the three spots nearest the screen. I marked the back of the velvet where the holes are with white touch up paint. The 6 inches allows for the velvet to hang in the front to cover the white projector canister. So with the exact location for each pole that slide into the rings at both the projector and the ceiling I can get a near perfect movie tent in less than 5 minutes.
DeleteThe other addition is a simple string that I run across the bottom of the projetor from my AV stand to the book shelf at the perfect bottom edge when playing 2.35 movies. I draw the string across, one end is fixed and loop it around a hook on the other end and tighten it with a simple tent line attachment. Then I drop the handy black weed stop material over the line and let it hang. I clip both ends to keep the fabric taught. Watched TENET and it rocked.
When I have time will post updated photos and even a simple video.
Thanks
John
https://youtu.be/OP7dL_WlKuM
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