The Family Room has officially kicked my butt and made me it's man-girl.... So we were about 1/2 done with the pergo, when Jen suddenly reminds me we were planning on running the speaker wires before we put the pergo down..... So, another jaunt to Home Depot, and about 45 dollars in expensive, over priced little plates for the surround system. I have to say though, now that it's done it's going to look sweet. Plus, running wires with another person helping is 1000 times easier than doing it yourself (which is how i'm used to). I keep forgetting how helpful Jen is when doing stuff around the house :) Anyways, pics in case anyone here wants to do something like it. We're going to leave the plates white, and not try to paint them. The paint probably wouldn't stick, but also I'm hoping they'll blend because they're a different subsystem. Besides, I can always take them off and paint them later. Here's the parts all put together:

We used a template to make the holes, so they'd all be the same space away and look uniform.

A drywall saw, and 5 minutes later we have a hole!

Sweet, eh? Expensive but should be able to handle just about anything we throw at them (16 gauge wire in the walls)

This is the main terminal, it will be behind the TV. As you can see it's wired for Dolby 6.1 surround, so there are 3 terminals, not 2.

Is this the template, or my halloween costume?
Tommorrow, the exciting conclusion of the Family Room pergo! Same bat time, same bat channel.