Harley-Davidson Soda Machine Sweetens Attic Theater
By Arlen Schweiger
An LED fiber-optic ceiling, 2.35 projection and touchscreen controls also make this attic theater conversion rock.

We love it when homeowners express their passions or hobbies in their home theaters. We’d already seen Harley-Davidson show up in one cool theater environment, and here it is again in a completely different context.

For one thing, this New Jersey theater is a dedicated room, and for another it’s not your typical basement project. It’s in the home’s attic space. That in itself was a bit of an unusual challenge faced by custom electronics pro Premier Home Theater of Newton, N.J.



“We were contacted by this owner to help them turn their attic into a theater for the whole family to enjoy. Upon meeting with the owner we realized we would have to get very creative to make you forget you were in an attic,” says Premier’s Robert Kowalski.

“We gave the walls a three-dimensional feel by stacking acoustic panels and popping some color in with the amber fabric on some of the panels. We also designed in an LED fiber-optic ceiling to open the space up and take your attention away from the various angles in the ceiling.”

As far as the actual movie and TV viewing, an important aspect was the aspect ratio. Premier installed a 2.35:1 screen that can mask to 16:9 so the common super-wide CinemaScope and traditional HDTV viewing aspect ratios would be incorporated to their fullest as projected from the high-performance Runco projector.

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