Incredible Home Theater Transformations
By Steve Crowe
Home theaters aren't always part of a new construction project. Here's a look at our favorite before-and-after rooms.

Having the blank canvas of a new-construction home or big home addition is nice, but it's not always applicable to home theater projects.

More often than not, CE pros wind up taking an existing basement, bonus room or attic space and working on a conversion. Of course, the result is worth it for that big-screen and super surround-sound system renovation.

We've also seen some pretty creative places that have been transformed - like an unused indoor pool and a couple of garages.

The before-and-after process has become so popular that we've rounded up our favorite before-and-after home theaters.



Garage Becomes Theater: Before
Turning this three-car garage into a 850-square-foot home theater involved leveling out the concrete floor, adding insulation to the walls and replacing the garage door with Anderson sliders. New electrical wiring, outlets and lighting were also added, and soundproof walls were built around an existing central vacuum receptacle to hide the beast and prevent noise from interfering with the movie presentation.

Garage Becomes Theater: After
You could never tell this theater was once a three-car garage. It features a 119-inch Screen Innovations screen, seven Boston Acoustics speakers and four Boston Acoustics subwoofers. A portable Control4 touchpanel gives the owners the freedom to control their A/V equipment - including a Sony 1080p video projector and Denon 7.4 surround-sound system - from anywhere in the room.

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