Four Ideas for Envisioning Your New Home Theater Installation
Create a Multipurpose Entertainment Space Beyond Movies
Do you live a formal or informal lifestyle? Las Vegas and Nevada, generally, are places for less formality. Lifestyles here are only bound by your imagination and interests. If you lean to the informal in the way you live and entertain, chances are your home is a reflection of that attitude.
If you are considering a home theater installation for your Las Vegas home, you’re likely to want that space to be more than just a dedicated room for watching movies. And you’d be in the majority, as today’s home theater designs tend to be less formal and more adaptable to multiple uses. Keep reading below to explore four ideas to get the most bang for your entertainment buck from your home theater.
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Flexible Spaces
Modern home theaters are still excellent places to enjoy the cinema experience at home, but they need not be limited by tradition. Your new theater can serve as a place to do much more that takes advantage of the visuals and sound – anything from enjoying surround-sound music videos to gaming to sports to Netflix binges. These different activities and experiences benefit from a more imaginative approach to seating, lighting, screens, sound systems, and other significant details.
Entertain 2 or 20
Traditional home cinema seating might involve comfortable, reclining lounge chairs and tiered rows, much like a movie theater. But that style may not fit all the ways you can use your theater, like when your teens want to host a gaming party. If you enjoy Raiders games with company, a more flexible room will allow for food, drinks, standing, and sitting for your game watch parties. Your theater might also have ping pong and pool tables for entertainment while still enjoying sports or music videos for background entertainment. Consider different seating layouts that allow for various activities.
Multiple Screens
A popular option in today's multipurpose theaters is multiple screens. There are several ways to go with this approach. For watching sports and other content, you can have several flat-panel TVs that can tune to different games for catching all the college basketball or NFL games at the same time. When it's time for more cinematic content, a projector screen can descend from the ceiling and the projector comes on for enjoying a sit-down film. If you like an immersive exercise experience, you can screencast a workout like a Peloton ride on your big screen with sound to simulate the energy of the exercise studio, giving your home theater another useful dimension.
Set the Scene with Lighting
Home theaters need customized lighting for optimal experiences. For multipurpose theaters, you need lighting for different activities and uses. For dark room film viewing, you'll want dimmable lighting with path and offset lighting for navigation. For sports viewing, you may want soft lighting that balances viewing with moving around, eating, drinking, and milling about. If you have games like pool tables and pinball machines, your lighting can combine dimming for the viewing area and lights for the gaming areas with one-touch scene control to set up the right ambiance. For rooms with windows that need to tame the desert sun, motorized shading is the perfect way to filter or block outside light for your entertainment space.
Ready to design and install a home theater entertainment space that fits your lifestyle? Reach out to our team today; we look forward to working with you!
