- Oh (chuckles) my goodness.
(man chuckles) (dramatic music) (door hinges squeaking) (dramatic music) (metal rattling) (door hinges squeaking) And in this video, I'm gonna show you how I
took an ordinary tuff shed, (dramatic music) All right. So I first just started
doing some simple sketches, and then I moved over
into home designer suite, and started really drawing
it out and more card like, then did some simple 3D renderings, which really helped us
visualize the space. And then, my buddy Wayne,
did these amazing designs. He's an amazing 3D home theater designer. And my buddy Steven Smith did
a full-blown acoustic design, for my speakers. So the first step was to do
the concrete pour for the pad, we had to pump this all
the way from the street. And the pad itself was
exactly 20 feet by 14 feet, which is the footprint of the shed itself. They put these anchor bolts
directly into the concrete, so that the tuff shed
could be bolted directly to the concrete pad itself. From there, the tuff shed
was delivered on a trailer, just like as you see here, all of the lumber is precut, by Tuff Shed in their factories, and it literally shows up, to be installed pretty
much in one day, usually. For ours it took a couple
of days just because we had to get a permit for it. And I did permit the structure
as a shed on the property. So they literally just
carried the walls in, and set them in place, to then anchor them in with the bolts that were preset in the concrete itself. It's really just a two man process. And they put it up all in a
course of pretty much one day, and then had the permit
for a final inspection, and then finished it up. You know, anybody can go
purchase this tuff shed directly from Tuff Shed and have it installed. So I wanted to start with
a very standard shed. Now, the first thing I did, I took the roof struts
here and I raised them. So I eliminated all these trusses, and you can see that I have a
modified brace system in here that was approved by the engineers. And then the AC was installed. So B&J refrigeration in Tucson, Arizona, was the company that
did the install for me. Fujitsu was nice enough
to sponsor this video, and we used this mini split ceiling unit, which was perfect because
it put the AC air coming into the room directly in
the center in the ceiling. So nobody was directly being hit with that cold air in this smaller space. These mini splits are really nice, I've got three of them on my property now, for various reasons. And it's just a great way
to have controlled AC, and Fujitsu is the only brand
that I have on my property. And I absolutely love the
finished product that they offer. So the next step here was
to do the electrical wiring. So the wiring was done by my friend, Jose, and I proceeded to seal
off any open air gaps, and put this three inch conduit from where the AV equipment
is going to be installed. It was a pain to get in there, by the way, just cause the space was so tight. But this allowed for
future-proofing of those cables. Now on to my least favorite step, which was the insulation. So I had a little bit of fun
with it in terms of getting it from my driveway all the way
to the side of the property where my shed is and
hopped on my one wheel. And that made short
work of transporting all of these rolls of insulation. From here, I was fortunate
enough to have my nephews, Mark and John, and then their
dad Rick as well helped me with the installation of the insulation. Had to have a little family meeting here just to check the progress of it. We started in the ceiling first and then moved onto the walls. We live in Tucson, Arizona. So this is a must to have really good
insulation in the walls. Got the installation done. That was not fun. Now it won't be a hundred
degrees in here working. Now I've got it down to 78 degrees, probably gonna be my least favorite part of this whole build. Next it was time to bring
in all the sheetrock. These are 5/8 inch sheets of dry wall. I was gonna do two layers
with green glue in the middle. As you can see here, I'm
running more speaker wires. I ran speaker wires to
all locations I needed, before proceeding on
to building the riser. So initially I put down
some pressure-treated wood, and used this power actuated gun (nail gun buzzing) to put the nails directly
into the concrete. (air whooshing) (dramatic music) (machine running) (wood knocking on machine) (dramatic music) (wood knocking on machine) (dramatic music) (wood knocking on machine) (dramatic music) (tape measure rustling) (dramatic music) (pencil scribbling) (power saw roaring) (dramatic music) I installed all of these two by 12 joists, 16 inches apart just to make it easy to install the insulation that I was gonna put in here later. I used my nail gun to
secure them all down, and I wanted to make sure this
was super solid and sturdy, so I had to do a little stress test, and this is the first time
I got to see and see kind of where the second row would be. And at this point exciting news, the first of the Valencia
seats started showing up to our house. Now these were actually the
three console sets that I'm giving away on this video. So make sure you stay to the end for that. More equipment showed up: the Denon receiver, the JVC projector, and those triad in wall silver, satellite speakers, and atmos speakers, LCRs all showed up. So kinda like Christmas in July for sure when those showed up. I then proceeded to fill the
entire riser with insulation, and I vented it so that it could act as an additional pressure absorber behind that second row of seats. I did most of the cutting in my garage, and these are 5/8 inch sheets of plywood that I used for the riser. And I used some liquid nails
before I laid them down to make sure they're super
solid and then anchor them in with some deck screws. And I did two sheets. So I did use the Roberts carpet glue in between the two sheets, just for some additional
vibration dampening, and for additional rigidity. The carpet glue actually
leaves a little bit of, flexibility in there as
well, so it's not too rigid. Brought in more sheets of plywood, and continued to lay them down, cut out the step. I did do a recess step
with LED lighting in here, just to open up some more
space in the room there. Next onto building the front false wall, which is where the screen is gonna go, and it's gonna house the LCR speakers, and the GSG audio BTS subwoofers. So I just built this out of two by fours, and I did, kinda designed it as I go, but I did hop over at one
point into Google sketch, and do some proper 3D
renderings to find out what type of pieces of wood, if the AVR equipment rack was gonna fit in everything
really plan that out. About that time, the Seymour Screen showed
up from media designers. You gotta contact Louis
of media designers. They're based at Chicago, Illinois. Really amazing to work with. This screen happens to have
a very cool masking system, which allows me to
convert the aspect ratio of my screen very easily. And Seymour Screen even
sent me some popcorn, which I thought was a
nice little touch there. Super easy to install. I'll show you that here in a little bit. Building out this false wall, that was gonna house the
subwoofer and speakers and everything was probably my
favorite part of this build, because I really had
to design it as I went, more little stress tests
here for fun to make sure that everything was solid.
(exploding sound) And about this time, I actually had my nephew
Mark show up from Texas, who needed to do an intern
with me, so put him to work, and he was a huge help
during this process, even organized all of my tools for me, because I was just using
them and came in one day, and he had them all organized. Then more seats, more Valencia
Theater Seating showed up. I have a total of eight of these amazing Tuscany
theater seats in this theater, and I'd put some of them in one of the spare bedrooms in the house. And the other four, we went ahead and set
up in the living room, to give them a little test to
make sure they were all good. This is my wife Lauren, testing them out for the first time, testing out the lumbar support, which is really, really solid,
super comfortable for her. And there you can see some of my family trying them out as well. We then moved on to
building the upper portion of this front wall. These are angled on the side, specific to what Steven
Smith spec'd out for me, so that those would be
at the perfect access, to the ideal listening position. Here we are going to pick out the carpet. Lauren and I went and we
picked out the carpet. We found a carpet from
Mohawk that was super soft, but very durable because this is a shed, so we're going to be coming into the shed with probably shoes on from the outdoors, or walking from inside to outside, so super durable but comfortable carpet. I formed out five of these columns, just simply with some two by four, to help give the room
some depth and dimension, break up those flat walls, and they turned out really nice I think. The upper soffits, in order to house those atmos speakers, I just built out of two by fours, really simple, shallow soffits. I needed to create enough depth for those atmos speakers in the ceiling, because there wasn't a lot of
room up there in the ceiling, and it went together pretty well. And this is just my own design, so there might be a better
way to build these soffits, but it worked out pretty
good with the framing nailer. We also then went around
and sealed up more air gaps that we were seeing cause it is a shed, and the better you can
seal up these air gaps, the more efficient your heating
and cooling is gonna be. The projector was gonna be
over 65 pounds with mount. So I decided to put it
in this sheet of plywood to just give extra strength when we went to go mount that later. Now onto the sheetrock. We started with the ceiling, I've never done sheetrock before. So this is all new to me. In my theater here, there are a lot of
angles, cuts, dimensions, and so it was extremely time
consuming to cut everything and get it just right as
we were installing this, and we were gonna do two sheets with that green glue in the middle. As you can see here, the second soffit has not been built yet. I kinda built one side first, and then when I figured it out, I would build the other side as I went, which really helped me kinda learn how to do it on one side, and then I just copied
it on the other side. So here we are installing
the second soffit. I use a laser to make sure
that it was perfectly lined up from one to the other. And then Mark handily went along and just marked every single truss for me and even caught his own
noise protection ear mask, which I thought was pretty cool. Then I hurt my knee. So considering I hurt my knee, I needed to bring in the experts. So got Armando and then his crew in there to do the rest of the sheetrock for me. I'm not gonna lie, I'm not complaining that I had
to have somebody else come in and finish this for me
considering I hurt my knee. Armando and his crew did a great job, even installing that green glue, which they'd never done before. But they did a great
job when I showed them how I thought it should be installed. And they did it in about two days. So again, I'm really glad
I had the experts come in and finish up that phase for me. They went ahead and
patched all of the seams, and got it all mudded up ready for paint. In the meantime, I did not stay idle. Mark and I got to work
building the GSG audio BTS, which stands for behind
the screen subwoofer boxes. Now these come in, what's
called a flat pack. They literally just get
delivered to you on a pallet, and they're all CNC cut. So it's super easy to put together. For the most part, they
give amazing directions. You do need a lot of clamps, you need some patience, but with the help of having
another set of hands, which was nice to have Mark, he and I built two of these together, over the course of about a week, just because we did a
little bit here and there. After we finished sanding it, it was time to do the Excel hide, which I got from Parts Express. This stuff was super easy to roll on. You could spray on dirt techs, but this was just a
quick easy way to do it. The final step was to install
the 21 inch eminence drivers that are tour grade and
they are ridiculously good, especially for the price point. So had to fire them up for the first time. (lively music) I highly recommend GSG audios flat packs. They sounded amazing when
turned on for the first time. (lively music) (lively music) Ended up having to install all
of the baseboard overnight, because Armando was ready to
do the paint the next day. So I went to work and got
that baseboard installed. Also cut out these little notches for some LED light controls and outlets. Then Armando got to work doing the paint. He did the black ceiling first, and then did that web gray on the walls, which this video just is not
doing those colors justice. The black is black and the gray is a really nice, comfortable
gray on the walls. Lauren found these sconces online, which I thought were really perfect. Add a little bit of gold accent to it. And then I put back in
the trim work for the AC, which I did paint black
with a spray paint. Had Steven Smith, acoustic
design for the room. I filled the whole front wall with all of the excess insulation, because that's gonna act as a pressure absorber
for the entire room. I then used just regular
MDF board to close that in, and secure that for the screen. Now it was time to install
those triads speakers. This one I'm pretty easily just because I had all
the speaker wire run, and these triads speakers
are super easy to install, after doing the cutouts. And it was a very messy process. So we did try to minimize the
dust with a vacuum cleaner while I went around and
cut out these openings. This I did overnight because
the carpet was being installed the very next day. I also installed some track
lighting in the ceiling. I'll be doing a separate video on these and the fiber optic style ceiling. Then I had to clean up the entire space, because the carpet was
ready to be installed. Carpet is one thing I
chose not to do myself, just because it does require
a lot of specialty tools to install it, and I wanted somebody to do it right with a nice warranty on it. So I had a local Tucson company come out and install this Mohawk carpet for us. It went in in one day
and we're super happy, with the quality of the carpet. And of course the dogs
are the most excited, for their brand new play room. Onto the screen, it was time to really
finish up the screen wall. So before doing that, I installed these one
inch sheets of duct board, which really absorbed more sound. And this is gonna be behind the screen. It's acoustically transparent screen. So got those all installed, got the AV rack installed there. I do have it on rollers. So it's super easy to
pull out and mess with any of the cables or do any upgrades. So I'm really glad I designed
that AV rack on casters. The entire front wall was
gonna be covered in panels, wrapped in DMD fabric from Acousticmac. And I built all of these panels out with this pocket hole
drill from Craig Tools, super easy tool to use, and it allowed me to really
make these thinner pieces of wood super secure. So I used some glue and the Craig tool to drill the pocket holes. This is the big main panel that's gonna go behind the screen. And I just put down that DMD acoustically transparent fabric, and wrapped it up, pulled it tight. Definitely glad I had a
compressor and a stapler, to get this job done. I used a magnet system
that I came up with, which is just simply strong magnets, and some metal plates on the wall. Now it was time to install the projector. This is the JVC NX7 projector,
Native 4K projector. It is ridiculously good. I did install a vibration dampener, to help with the vibrations
because those vibrations, from the subwoofers really
travel up to this projector. And that vibration dampener really works. Got the fridge, got to have a mini fridge, with all the beverages in there inside. This refrigerator I'll have
listed in the description below, it's nice size. And then we brought in those subwoofers. So here you can see Mark
and I push in the subwoofers into the cavities that
we created for them. This is only 18 inches deep
here on this screen wall. And they fit perfectly based
on building them custom to it. And you can see there, I'm putting one of those
panels right in front of it. Now onto the Valencia Theater Seats, I was glad to finally get these installed. So they come in two pieces, and we brought them in one by one. Super easy to connect up together. And we arranged them how we
wanted them arranged based on how we purchased them and got comfortable. All right, moving on to the light switch. So I went with brilliant controls
and they were nice enough to send me these switches, and I have two more inside the house. And they're all connected to Alexa, and they control all the lighting, and pretty much anything
else I wanna program into it. Here I'm putting these
Seymour Screen together, again, this was.... It was a little time-consuming, but it went together pretty easily. I did put some gloves on just to make sure that I wasn't getting any
part of the screen dirty as I went around and did it, but I'd never done this before. and it went together
really, really easily. And the picture quality is amazing. Now I do have Apple TV, Dish Network and XBox One X, which I use as my ultra HD
media player for this theater. Acoustic panel time, So I designed these custom
and built them myself, and it wasn't easy, but it was very, very
rewarding to build them myself. Lauren and I came up with
this cool triangular design and decided to make two separate triangles to create a full rectangle, which would allow me to have a
really perfect straight edge, down the center of the
two different fabrics, which are also from Acousticmac. And so I got the first one done and built the rest, were not so bad, but there were a lot of them. So this was a time consuming process. I then moved on to wrapping
them in the fabric, which was no small task to wrap
a triangular shape in fabric and not have any wrinkles. And I was not successful in being a hundred percent wrinkle-free, but I'm pretty proud
of how they turned out. I secured the two
triangular shapes together to create a full rectangle. And then I filled them with
a safe and sound insulation, to absorb that sound. And then backed them with a thin sheet of plywood on the back there. I thought I did pretty good
in putting these together, and hung them up and really
pleased the way that they looked and turned out in the room. They're about three inches deep. So they're definitely thick
in absorbing the sound. And then of course had to
do some sound calibration of the speakers. I followed Stephen Smith's YouTube videos, episode seven on his YouTube channel. (dramatic music) - So when Michael approached me, to design him a home theater, you know, an outdoor shed,
it was a really great idea. You know, it was something that really people
don't think about doing. But when it comes to, you
know, the design itself, it's all about the room, and the room is actually
a nice sized space. Plenty of room to work with,
two rows of seating in there. We want the sound to just
blow people away you know. When people sit down in this room, we want them to... When they think home
theater a month later, this is the room they're
gonna think about. This is what they're gonna remember as one of the best sounding
rooms they've ever heard. - Alexa, turn on the theater. (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music) (dramatic music)
