Include a Home Theater in Your Attic or Basement Remodel
Home Theater a Popular Trend
Whether you reside in New York or Los Angeles, Dallas or Chicago,
an increasingly popular home remodeling idea is the addition of
a new home theater room design into an existing room of the home.
Today’s cutting edge technology in DLP HDTV has enabled extremely
high resolution large screen format at a very affordable cost. A
few years ago, large format plasma television came with a price
tag of about $30,000 for a 63-inch screen. Today, a DLP technology
HDTV 61-inch screen can be purchased for about $2,100.
Choosing a home theater system comes with numerous designs, sizes,
and models from which to select. The home theater sound system is
a crucial element of the complete system; choice and selection of
components, options, and price are nearly endless.
Finding the Right Room
Probably the most important consideration when planning a home
theater design is selecting a suitable room in the house for the
home theater installation. There are two possible areas of the home
frequently overlooked; the attic and the basement.
Incorporating a home theater into an attic remodel or basement
remodel is a great idea. First, because these areas are unfinished
in many homes; secondly because special considerations for a home
theater are easily incorporated into the finishing work.
Many attics offer the necessary room for meeting minimum habitable
room headspace requirements. Most attic remodel projects involve
increasing the insulation, which is also a good idea for home theater
soundproofing. Since the object of a home theater is to duplicate
the big screen experience, extra soundproofing helps from interfering
with activities in other areas of the home, or with neighbors.
Any special cabling or wiring for a home theater audio system can
quickly be put in place by home theater installers before the walls,
floors, or ceilings are finished, minimizing time and costs. This
is also a perfect time to install wall-mounted or ceiling-mounted
built in speakers. Of course if you are planning a wireless home
theater, with a wireless home theater speaker system or wireless
surround sound system, pre-wiring the frame walls is unnecessary.
Basements are the other ideal candidate for a home theater. Incorporating
one into a basement remodel is beneficial for the same reasons as
an attic remodel, with the added benefit that only the ceiling would
require extra insulation for soundproofing, since the room is already
underground level.
Home Theater Can be Complicated – Hire a Professional
Before you begin any work, it is a good idea to check with knowledgeable
home theater installers to have the room assessed. They can suggest
any necessary changes for optimum acoustic properties, as well as
system size requirements for your particular home theater design.
Installers are usually affiliated with retailers, or are retailers
themselves. You can visit their showrooms and purchase state of
the art systems, specialty home theater furniture, or even decorative
acoustical wall panels for enhancing acoustic properties of the
room and décor at the same time.
Another very good reason to involve a home theater professional
is that the installation of most home theater systems can be very
technical; above the capabilities of the average homeowner. Enlisting
the services of a professional can save hassles and headaches.
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