Recessed Lighting Installed

I began the installation of the recessed lights. I've finished the main basement, still need to do the theater though.

I installed 14 6" cans in the main 8' celiing area, two 6" cans in the arcade, 3 5" cans on the 7' ceiling area, 1 5" can on the 7' ceiling area leading to the theater hallway, 2 6" cans in the hallway of the theater/bathroom, 4 4" cans against the wall on the 7' ceiling and 3 4" cans over the bar area.

All the lights will be normal soffit lights, except the 4 4" cans against the wall which will be eyeball lights to shine light on pictures against the wall.

I still need to install the 6 6" cans, 6 5" cans and 5 4" cans in the theater.

I bought a lutron grafikeye 3106 for the theater, which will allow me to control the light levels for all lights with a simple button push on my remote.

The rest of the basement will use dimmable light switches which can also be controlled via remote, just not with as many options as in the theater.

Here is a shot looking down the length of the basement. The flash helps show where all the lights are.



Here's a shot showing the spacing of the lights in the main 8' ceiling. They are 2' from each side wall and about 4' between eachother.



Here are the two lights over the arcade area, 2' from the walls and 5' between eachother.



You can make out 3 of the 4 4" wall wash cans on the back of the soffit in this pic. Once drywall is up, I'll install the eyeball covers and direct them at posters on the wall. They're spaced evenly along the wall, about 4' beween eachother.


Here are the three 4" cans that will be over top of the bar.



Lastly is another shot looking down the length of the basement:

Theater Soffit done

Been a while since I've updated, managed to get some time in last weekend to do some work on the basement.

I put up the soffit around the perimeter of the theater. It's 27" wide by 8" tall. 8" was just enough to enclose the sewer pipes on the left side of the theater. Here's a pic showing them:



Here's a view looking towards the front of the room, I forgot the wide angle lens so sorry for the lousy pic:



Here is a shot of the back of the back of the room:



You can see I left a spot for a projector shelf. Once the drywall is done, I'll add a wood enclosure that will hold the projector. Once finished it will blend right in and all that will be seen is the hole the projector is shooting out of.



Doing the break in the soffit allowed me to put my main return in the side of the break. This did two things, it made sure all of the hot air from the projector will get sucked out of the room and it hid the large grill from view so it won't be an eyesore in the room.



If for some reason I'm not getting enough airflow from the project blocking it, I can punch through the soffit from the front and add another grill. Hopefully I won't need to.

I also start laying out the hvac registers in the rest of the basement:



This proved more difficult than expected. Everywhere I wanted to put a hvac line, there either already was one, or there was something the builder installed blocking it's path. Another issue I ran into was that wherever I put the hvac line, that section between beams won't be able to have any recessed lights. So I changed direction and decided to go get my recessed lights and get those mounted (not yet wired) before finalizing the hvac runs. Home Depot had a great deal on a contractors 6 pack. They were air tite IC lights with trims for $50. Unfortunately, they only had one box and no other local HDs have any... so I'm going to check NY this weekend while I'm up there.

Nick