Jacob Yarmuth is probably the biggest sci-fi fan you could ever meet.  That explains why he spent a staggering $70,000 at Visual Concepts in Louisville, Kentucky, to turn his living room into a Stargate-themed home theater.  Given the amount of details worked in by Visual Concepts and Nashville-based partners Sound Answers, that’s an incredibly cheap price for this epic Mona Lisa of personal theaters.

Here’s my question:  they went to great pains to hide the theater’s control system and to secret away all the speakers and whatnot behind panels.  It looks great that way, and if I was going to build one of these, it’s how I’d do it.  That said, why are all the HVAC register grills visible?  I know you can’t block them up, but couldn’t you at least paint them the same color as the walls behind them?  Is this some feature of the base that I’ve never noticed while watching Stargate?

Given that these guys are a local company, I wonder if they’d be willing to put in the home theater system of *my* dreams in exchange for some free blog-based publicity?  Probably not, but it never really hurts to ask, right?  Right.