
Instructables user Falkenberg posted process photos of converting a wall into a projection screen with a beautiful exposed brick frame. With the help of a friend who’s a professional painter, they stripped through the layers of paint, wallpaper, and plaster down to the brick wall and cleaned the bricks with a wire brush. After sealing the bricks to prevent further crumbling and filling in the screen area with putty, they gave the wall a fresh coat of paint meant for projection surfaces. The final result is a totally unique and inexpensive home entertainment wall that looks good to boot.


Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder.
hmmm I’m not feeling it either. Maybe if the screen had perfect straight sides it might look a bit better
But that would lose the “Flintstones” feel this has.
They’re missing details on the precise paint.
This is significant because that’s the key ingredient behind the claim “inexpensive”.
Last time I looked around, the -easy- way to get a screen was indeed $3000. Or way more. From a home theater company. But the “I’ll do what I can” approach got me a 105″ ceiling-mount auto-retracting projection screen (with IR & radio remotes) for $200 shipped on Amazon. Not Maker-ly, but I spent -that- energy getting the rest of the electronics working.
The reason I stopped there is the home theater paints ALONE dissuaded me from even attempting it. So I’d be interested in exact brands, etc. for the paint.
Kudos on the work though. I think I’d go all the way to brick everywhere other than the screen myself, but that’s just a preference.
Awesome!
Great idea – terrible execution. The screen and frame would look great if the frame looked like an elaborate rococo frame with a perfectly rectangular screen part. Each to his own I guess.
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