Bedroom Pics

So I finally got around to painting the spare bedrooms. Here are a few pics until i can take better ones with the wide angle lens

More Electrical Work

I continued working on the elctrical over the last couple of weeks. I got all of the lights wired up (with the exception of the bathroom and arcade). All of the switches are dimmable and the wall wash, hallway to the theater, and bar lights can all be controlled via remote.

Here's a pic looking back towards the arcade/wine closet (on left) and entrance to the basement (right):




Here is the same shot, but shows the lights in the lower ceiling area a bit better:




Here is a shot looking the other way towards the theater hallway (left) and bar (center):




Here is a good shot of the lights under the lowered ceiling. The main ceiling as 6" cans, the lowered ceiling has 5" on the left side and 4" on the ride side. The 4" will be wall washes:




Here is the hallway to the theater:




Here is the bar area. We plan on putting cabinets below the three lights. There will be enough room to walk behind them and there will be a small sink installed. I wired all the lights and outlet to a GFCI breaker and put all lights/outlets off a GFCI receptacle. I did manage to blow up the first switch I put in there. It was the last switch I installed, so you would think it would have been a no brainer, but for some reason I decided to hook the neutral to the output instead of the hot... a big zap and tripped breaker... a burnt $30 switch to be replaced and all is fine now:




Here is the entrance to the theater. I ran out of bulbs, so I only have two of 4 installed in the main ceiling and three of 4 installed in the soffit:




Here is the rear of the theater. On the right part of the soffit is the outlet for the future rope light. You can also make out the two outlets that will be located inide the columns:





Here is the front of the theater. The outlet in the soffit above will be for lights that will shine down on the front of the screen. The three black outlets will be behind the screen and will be used to light up the speakers so that they can be seen through the screen when desired:




I finally got my GrafikEye installed. This controls all the lights in the theater and it is simply awesome! I have 6 zones as follows:

#1 - 4 Main ceiling can lights
#2 - 4 Soffit lights
#3 - Screen lights
#4 - Rope light for soffit
#5 - Behind screen lights
#6 - Column lights




The grafikeye has up to 25 scenes. These scenes are preset settings for the brightness of each zone. For instance, scene #1 could have zones 1 and 2 on and 3-6 off... scene #2 could have zone #1 dimmed 50%, zone #2 dimmed 75%, zone #4 dimmed 10% and the rest off, etc. It's very adaptable and can all be controlled via a remote. I played with it last night and it was really really cool!




Lastly, here's each side of the theater. There are two outlets per side wired... these will be for inside the columns to control lights mounted on/in them. They are controlled by the grafikeye:





Nick