DIYer Spends 3 Years Researching Theater
By Rachel Cericola
Steve Caesare didn't want to throw something together in his basement; he wanted things to be perfect.

It’s easy to get excited about home theater. Go on the AVS Forum. There certainly is a lot to get your creative juices flowing and your mouth salivating. While seeing the big, beautiful, comfortable rooms might get many to jump into a project, Steve Caesare wanted to take his sweet time.

“I’m genuinely a do-it-yourselfer type of guy. My dad was that way and I grew up that way,” he says. “I’ve always grown up looking at a project with the thought that if at all possible, I’ll try to educate myself on how to do it and try my own hand at it.”



So that’s exactly what Steve did. For three years, he researched how to create his perfect room. He did lots of reading, combed the AVS Forum for suggestions, and talked to people that had been there and done that.

Not to say that Steve hasn’t jumped the gun before. He had actually attempted theater greatness two years prior. Alas, it was not so great. “After a month, we actually stopped that,” Steve says. He decided to go another route with the framing, for better sound isolation. He also wanted to try something different with the soffit. “So I really don’t count that.”

So Steve waited, researched, added more to the budget and decided to do something better. After all, he had spent enough time thinking about it. When he and wife, Vanessa, looked at houses, he always wanted the theater room. Of course, this basement layout afforded him that dream and much more.

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