Apartment Projector Rehab

The projector has many advantages over the large format TV screen. For instance the 19 foot C Seed 262 LED TV weighs nearly a ton. Schlepping it from apartment to apartment is a daunting proposition as is dedicating 19 feet of wall space. With the projector you can get just as large a picture for pennies on the dollar with regard to weight - and without tying up an inch of wall space - vital considerations for the New York apartment dweller.

In a previous post I sketched up an example apartment living space - using Frank Lloyd Wright's space efficient NYC Usonian Exhibition House [ with builtin style sofa bank / bookshelves ] as a template - reworked in a contemporary polychromatic wood palette. In this post I used that palette to work up the living room also fitted with builtins but designed around a projector and screen. Wright's Usonian template is ideal for NYC projector rehabs while very bright 4K laser projectors and Black Diamond screens make very large screen projection TV quite feasible. Note: In the drawings the projected screen image is taken from the public domain film 'My Man Godfrey'. The NYC panorama is from copyright free pixabay.com.

In New York youve got to squeeze maximum utility out of every square inch: the sofa bank easily converts to three 38 x 80 single beds and behind the back cushions there's additional storage. The dining table is builtin merging into kitchen shelving and storage space on the kitchen side. Opposite the sofa bank is a storage wall with a kitchen height counter terminating into a builtin desk for internet and office work. The base cabinets on the storage wall side are cantilevered for robotic vacuums and convenient storage space for shoes, boxes, and clunky items.

Adapting Wright's artful design makes it possible to integrate a spacious feel, lots of storage, and projection TV. In this way it becomes possible to market projection TV facilities to a much wider audience where the dedicated media room is impractical.