That sucks. Football's the whole reason for all this, right?

Update,

Was home last weekend and our new couches for the living room were coming, so I moved our old one into the media room.

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I took the 3" feet off the couch to get it through the doors and decided to leave the feet off. This with the 2X6 riser joists, 3/4" plywood, 2" board holding my rear theater chairs gives me an about an effective 10" riser. It is not hard to get up or down on the couch. The screen does seem a touch high, but I didn't have much chance really enjoy and try it.

The space between the theater chairs and couch is about perfect. No waisted space but plenty of room to walk and plenty of room for your feet when you sit in the theater chairs.

I'm going to remove to rope lighting an add a small step light or something since the couch covers most of the lights anyway and it looks a little silly.

With the couch I'm exactly 11' from my screen while the rear row is right at 15'. At 11 feet I thought I was a little close for SD TV (Dish), but it is awesome for HD or DVD.

My wife gave the go ahead for four Berkline recliners for the front row, but I just can't decide exactly what I want for the front row (the love seat you see the side is not staying). Not so much the money as it is to decide what will work best for the room. So I might live with the couch for a while. Maybe through the Superbowl and see how it works out.

Nice. Berklines would be nice too. That's my problem, haven't finished the room, yet. Are you sure you can fit 4 across? They get pretty wide.

Yup, I can pretty easily do the 088's with a love seat in the middle and single chairs on either side. The 088's are slightly narrower then the more popular 090's and also have a lot thinner arm rest.

Well if you haven't finished the room, you might want to pick chairs before you finish. That was my problem, I finished just about everything including the riser, then tried to find the seating to fit. I wish I had bought the seating 1st and that would have helped with riser height, how to build the riser, how deep, how big of a screen, where to mount the PJ on the ceiling, where to put my components, etc, etc. Seems in the end, almost everything centers around where and how you will be sitting.

I've got a dual-chair/loveseat thingy like 2 Berkliners would be. That part is ok, I just need to clean up and finish wiring and whatnot. I've got most of it done, but haven't worked on it in awhile.