Custom Home Theater Features

What are the most important parts of a custom home theater system?  Answers to this question may vary, but there are some components that really up the "awesome factor"of a custom home theater.  As a Winnetka Custom Home Theater company, we have installed and created top-notch home theaters.  As a result, we have realized that many factors contribute to what makes a custom home theater a truly great one.  Here are a couple of the features that go into a making a custom home theater great:

Equipment

As custom home theater specialists, we cannot stress enough how important it is to pick solid home theater equipment.  The equipment will dictate the quality, so choosing wisely is key.  Typically, homeowners grow concerned over sound quality and rightly so.  Sound quality can greatly impact the enjoyment a homeowner gets from a home theater.  Speakers, projectors, and screens are just a few of the important home theater components that impact the quality of a homeowner's home theater experience.

Design

More than just the equipment, the design of the room is a big part of what makes a custom home theater truly look like and feel like a theater.  Finding that perfect space in your home is the first step in creating a great home theater design.  Typically the better the space, the better the home theater.  Choosing a dark room, installing lighting to provide ambiance, the arrangement of the seating, the color of the walls, the room angles are all design factors that can make a home theater go from okay to great.

Seating

The type of seating in a custom home theater can also up the great factor.  Think about it this way: if you walked into the home of someone with a custom home theater, would you expect to see cushy, leather recliners or folding chairs?  Obviously folding chairs wouldn't look as authentic as a row of leather recliners.  The type of seating chosen for a custom home theater provides that home movie theater feel, so in theory, seating is important.  The seating layout is also important.  It should be a simple, non-confusing layout.  Aside from the type of chair that is chosen and the seating layout, it should most importantly be comfortable to the homeowner and to guests.  After all, comfort is important when sitting through a 2 hour movie.

Just like the real deal

Some of the best custom home theaters are deemed the best because they are extremely close to the real deal. They bring the movie theater straight to the homeowner's home, which we find is usually the goal for homeowners who are looking to install a custom home theater.

If you're looking for more features to improve the quality or look of your custom home theater, leave us a comment below or contact us.

Lighting and Home Theaters

When it comes to your home theater there are a lot of factors to take into consideration.  For starters, the type of equipment you purchase, the room in your home the home theater will be in, the sound you are looking to achieve and the lighting in the room housing your home theater.  Lighting is a very important factor due to the fact that lighting creates ambiance for your custom home theater.  Here at Avidia we don't just install custom home theater systems.  We also put in lighting systems giving our customer's custom home theaters the real movie theater at home experience.  Why invest in a good lighting system for your custom home theater?  Here's a few reasons why we suggest it:

(1) Preserves energy: Worried about preserving energy in your home?  Invest in a great lighting system and save energy.  Lighting systems are a great way to preserve energy.  Lighting systems allow for capping the maximum light bulb output during every day usage.  This saves energy and also extends the bulb life.  A win win!

(2) Programmable: Lighting systems can be programmed to turn on or off all the lights at any predetermined time.  Maybe you're going on vacation, but you don't want anyone to know you are away.  Then simply programs your home's lighting to go on and off at set times while you are away.  Perhaps the whole family is in bed by 10, then simply set your lighting system to turn off all the lights by 10.  It's just that easy.

(3) Create different scenes:  We mentioned earlier how lighting provides ambiance and lighting systems make creating that ambiance even easier.  Lighting systems make creating different scenes easy.  You can create that perfect mood for a party all by using a lighting system.

(4) Ease of use: Lighting systems are designed with ease of use in mind.  Lighting systems are user friendly and make providing the rooms in your home with adequate lighting very easy.

(5) More control:  A regular on/off switch is nothing in comparison to a lighting system.  With a lighting system you have complete control over the lighting in your home.  One panel gives you the ability to control all of the lighting to give the rooms in your home or custom home theater the perfect lighting.

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