Sound Pumping and Jaw Exploding Design!

Designing For a Home Theater

What is better than a Home Theater in your very own home? Especially when you have personally designed the home theater to your specifications. Just because you have your mind set on bringing the theater to your home, it does not necessarily mean that you will have to make for major remodeling. Just simply take the basement, living area or even an extra room and mark that at as your home theater.

Never think that a room is not suitable for a home theater. Just a few simple alterations will make any room great for a home theater. For best results for your home theater, consider the following:

• An enclosed room (4 walls and a door)
• Blocking out light (little to no windows)
• Speaker placed in an appropriate area(surrounding the area where the audience is sitting)

Bright’n Up Your Home Theater!

Ceramic Home Theater Light Fixtures

When designing for your home theater, lighting is a factor that you must consider. Although it is not effective while watching your movie, it does play a key role in the overall look in which you may be looking for. Before entertaining some guests for the evening, you can turn on your home theater lights and make your guests feel like they are actually in a movie theater. After all, that is the point to having a home theater.

A ceramic wall sconce adds the light you are looking for while showing off your home theater. They easily mount on the wall over your existing lamp. A 75 watt bulb is all you need for with this ceramic home theater light fixture. Depending on the size of your home theater area, purchase several of these fixtures for proper lighting.

Movie Out or In?

Home Theater Vs. Movie Theater

Of course going to your local movie theater you can see the latest movies to hit the box office. A night in to watch a classic or new release at home is not so bad either. But I bet your home doesn’t have the sound a movie theater has. My only question to you is, WHY NOT? A good home theater system could also blow your living room windows out as well as a movie theater could.

Just think, your sitting at home with a tub of popcorn and a soda and you only have walk a few feet to your bathroom. If you go out to a movie theater, you have to stand in a line for tickets only to find out it is sold out. If you were lucky to get tickets, then you get in line for popcorn and the guy 10 people in front of you that is ordering can’t make up his mind. After all that mess is said and done, you walk into the movie theater and there aren’t two seats together. Lets not get into the guy that left his cell phone on.

If this happens the next time you go out for a movie, then consider a home theater system and avoid the lines.

Home Theater Design

Laying Out your Home Theater

Do you have a plan for how your home theater will be designed? Well first off, this probably isn’t a “do it yourself” project. So you will have to call a home theater specialist to get this project rolling. These specialists will most likely draw up a schematic of the lay out or show you their previous work.

Once all of this has been completed, Architects are then called in to complete and build the home theater design. As far as what scheme to use in the home theater is left up to interior designing. This will most likely have to contracted out to someone different and you guessed it, there will be most likely be extra fees or charges.

Home Theater Lighting

Home Theater Lighting. Is It Important?

When you go to a movie theater, you get your first indication that the movie is about to begin when the lights turn off. So what’s the big deal over lighting systems if we only plan to watch movies in the dark?

A good home theater lighting system enhances your theater room in a couple of ways. From a performance point of view, the home theater lighting system needs to provide light so that people can safely move around the room. You should also arrange the light sources so that they don’t cast any glare or light on the image, which would wash out the picture.

Beyond the performance issue, lighting provides an aesthetic benefit. The theater room should be an inviting, comfortable space, and a lighting system that sets the right mood is invaluable.

Home Theater Sound Proofing

Ultra Barrier Home Theater Sound Proofing

Ultra Barrier home theater sound proofing is an industrial grade composite of two pound mass loaded vinyl and one inch polyether foam designed to block / absorb sound in noise polluted environments. The vinyl is a flexible, high density material with a smooth surface created to reduce noise transmission. The vinyl barrier is resistant to most acids, mild alkalis and oils / grease. The foam acts as a de-coupler and an absorber. As a de-coupler, it dramatically limits vibration of the mass loaded vinyl. As an absorber, it captures noise radiating from structural or airborne sources. Ultra Barrier home theater sound proofing is available with a pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) for an easy ‘peel and stick’ application.

Ultra Barrier home theater sound proofing is effective in any environment where high noise levels are problematic. This heavy duty barrier / absorber may be applied directly to drywall or attached to studs / joists prior to the administration of drywall. Stop noise transmission through doors by applying Ultra Barrier home theater sound proofing to one side of the door. Practical applications include, but are not limited to; generator enclosures, compressor rooms, air conditioning unit enclosures, etc.