Storm Room

Creating a Storm Room

Recently I had an idea, and would like some suggestions/advice on making it happen.

I love storms, like LOVE storms. I also love my afternoon naps, and combining the two makes for a pretty amazing after work unwinding. At the moment, I have a somewhat decent setup that I use to make this happen. My room is equipped with a pretty nice surround system, and I have aplaylist of storms, rain showers etc that plays while I sleep. This works pretty well, and some times I even forget that it isn't truly raining outside.There have been several mornings where my wife has told me to be careful on my way to work because it's storming, only to realize it really wasn't.

But I would like to take this a step further. I'm thinking of creating an entire room, either in my house or separate, based around this. I would like a very atmospheric room for ; horror movies, sleeping, hanging out, reading, gaming, etc. So, I can think of a few ways of doing this.
The simple way, and the complex way.

For the simple way, I would just create a dark room with moody lighting and a surround system installed, but I would like to have speakers IN the ceiling as well, to really create that "rain pounding on the roof" vibe. I'm wondering the best route for this,
so any advice here would be great.

The complex way, while way more involved, would be incredible. I imagine I would need a lot of advice and suggestions though.

Basically this would be a fully atmospheric storm room. Surround speakers, fans throughout (possibly in the walls with speed control) to create the slight breeze from the rain
Maybe some slight fogging or "cool air" effect (not sure how this would affect the electronics/furniture/etc). The master touch would be a glass ceiling
with some sort of water system above to have actual water falling into the glass ceiling, (possibly some sort of pump recycling the water, with controls
for speed/intensity).And any other ideas/suggestions for this type of room.


I'm well aware of the cost of such a build, but ignoring that, how can this be achieved. Has anyone heard of a build like this before?

 

I think what you need is an engineer from IMAX to design this for you. We can help with specifics, but a total design would be impossible offsite, like this.

 

That's true, I never thought about finding an IMAX engineer, makes a lot of sense. I did happen to find this a few minutes ago, so it seems that something similar to this has been done before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3b4ChksHJM

 

You're in a good place to find people that know how to make "storm rooms". With all the amusement park rides there's a lot of expertise close by for you. You probably couldn't afford the firms that designed and built them but there are a lot of operators and maintenance people in town that know how the systems work.

For me it's all about the bass. I don't mean normal bass you get out of a residential sub but bass that extends down to ground shaking... just like that deep rumble from thunder in the distance. Fans and flashing lights... not my thing but if you can make people two blocks away wonder if there was a earthquake then you've got something.