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Function and beauty combine in this unique barrel ceiling. The barrel area was created to conceal the projector and prevent it from hanging down into the room. hard to believe this space exists in someone’s basement, which was exactly the intent. “Our focus is always on true one-of-akind finished projects,” explained Rob Kole, president of Kole Digital. “Whether it’s a theater or multi-media room, we take each design further than we have before.” This home theater features six top-ofthe-line reclining massager chairs that are heated and also contain amplified “butt kickers” that shake the seats based on what is happening in a given film. And up front, instead of a flat wall for the screen, Kole designed a small stage with a heavy velvet burgundy curtain that pulls back to reveal the screen. “The stage lets the client’s children entertain the family with karaoke, while hiding the subwoofers and center speaker,” Kole said. “The challenge was fitting everything that the homeowner wanted on the front wall – drapes, columns, speakers, stage and screen all had to blend together.” The theater has four rows of seating, each with their own view of the screen. To ac- complish this with limited ceiling height, Kole incorporated two steps into the front entry of the theater. Once people enter, they soon forget that they are higher than the original floor, so the front row looks like it has been recessed. The theater is painted burgundy and an antique metallic gold for a very rich look. The acoustic tiles on the walls are disguised as burgundy and gold wainscoting. Similarly, the vertical expanses of the Corinthian columns are painted burgundy, while the elaborate caps are painted gold. As for the ceiling, it is an experience in and of itself. Most of it is covered in more than 20 elegant gold medallions which are punctuated by pinpoints of fiber optic lighting. THE HIGHLIGHT, however, is a barrel ceiling in the center, which functionally conceals the projector, but aesthetically features a cloud mural similar to the amazing ceilings seen in the Caesar’s Palace shopping mall. In this private theater, like in the Nevada mall, the simulated sky’s time of day constantly changes. Here the ceiling changes thanks to linear fiber optic lighting hidden in the barrel ceiling by Dave Crocker, president of Optical Illusions Ltd. of Plainfield. “The idea was to create a lighting solution 10 WINTER 2007

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