A step-by-step DIY candy counter guide for your home theater that appeared in Home Theater Builder magazine. We pushed this as a project that someone could build in two days and on a budget. I enlisted my neighbor whose hobby is woodworking and he did an aging job, as you can see. I wanted a mini version of a movie theater candy counter so that meant including a small window on top of the counter to look down unto the cabinet. The article included every step of the process – we never had readers contact us because they were confused.
We combined photos with illustrations along with concise text guiding readers through the contruction.My neighbor Rich really knows his stuff when it comes to woodworking. He basically built this in his head before we even started. Rich did 90% of the work on construction, I took the photos and held pieces or wood strips. We ended up holding a contest and selling the finished product to a reader in upper NY state.The finished candy counter looked great, didn’t take up a lot of space and added some realism to a home theater. Made Saturday night feel like a real movie night!Candy Counter
A monthly magazine for designing and building a home theater. I founded and published HTB, my 9th consumer electronics magazine. I wanted the magazine to save as useful source in every facet of home theater design and contraction to I had it printed in an oversized format, 9′ w x 11″ and on premium matt paper.
I always disliked the incongruous look in magazines where they grabbed images from wherever, frequently for free. So I hired an illustrator to render every image we used in the how to projects, that way the magazine had its own style and flowed better. So you can see from the illustration below they have the same style. As I did with my previous magazines, we were bringing hi-tech to everyone, so we had to apply UI to the magazines. Looking at the images below it’s not difficult to figure out what’s going on.
Many of the articles were written by well-known home professional home theater designers and installers, people who created home theater for celebrities, professional athletes, heads of state. It was a fun magazine to product though a tremendous amount work. We attracted all the big players for advertising in HTB.
“Anatomy of a Home Theater” explained key areas such as sound absorption, projector housings, flooring, seating risers, ceiling look and construction.“Sight Lines” covered seating placement, distance, platforms, projector height, etc.“What you hear is what you get” discussed speaker placement using seating locations and reflection points.
