This weekend I worked on ceiling mounting my projector with my mom. Since I got it, I've had the projector sitting on a little school desk between the couches. It was fine while sitting down and watching movies, but walking in front of it caused you to be blinded by the bright light, and the power and video cables going to/from it were just asking for an accident.
I got a projector mount when I purchased the projector as part of the package, but in order to get the cables to/from it I needed to either install various types of video jacks in the ceiling, have cable run through the walls to another jack, where I'd plug things like my DVD player, comptuer etc into so that I could see them on the screen. This would've been pretty expensive, so I went with the cheaper route of installing "raceway" from the projector, along the ceiling, to the wall, and then down. Raceway is just a plastic guide for the cables to go in so they're not conspicuous. It's fairly cheap and the sell it at Lowes and Home Depot.
I also had to cut out sections of my foam wall decorations/sound dampeners so that the raceway could run behind them, but that was pretty easy because of the fact that they're foam.
Once I finalize where my dvd player etc are going to be located, I'll run some more of the raceway horizontally along the wall to where it will end. I also plan on getting a black power cable as opposed to the orange one you can see.
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