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This is the house we are buying in North Carolina. There is room in the unfinished basement to make a pretty nice home theater / listening room, but I have been thinking about this possibility as well.
As the pics show, there is an addition off the back of the house. How horrible would it be to build a room under that addition, nestled between the pillars? The dimensions would be about 20 x 25 feet, not huge, but sufficient.
I had a nice diagram drawn using Stanley's room designer program, but they want to charge $3 per room to export a picture. Can't even capture a screen shot (grumble, grumble).
Thoughts / Questions:
As the pics show, there is an addition off the back of the house. How horrible would it be to build a room under that addition, nestled between the pillars? The dimensions would be about 20 x 25 feet, not huge, but sufficient.
I had a nice diagram drawn using Stanley's room designer program, but they want to charge $3 per room to export a picture. Can't even capture a screen shot (grumble, grumble).
Thoughts / Questions:
- The screen / front of room would be where the ground has dropped off lower, away from the back wall of the house.
- The floor would be level with or only a little lower than the house basement floor level. There might be a single "split level" floor step down going from back to front of the listening room, moving away from the back of the house.
- Instead of pouring footings, could a bunch of stilts be driven into the ground (like your lake house, Sonnie)?
- By attaching to existing structure, the roof and one wall are taken care of. Downside is sound transmission into the existing house structure. It would also be nice to have the music room "float" to avoid sound transmission,
- The entrance would be from outside, no knocking holes in the existing house structure.
- Simple, straight walls, minimal complexity.
- No plumbing, only electrical.