The “HT” in GHT Group stands for home theater, and it’s been part of our company’s DNA for over 30 years. We have always been huge proponents that the cinema experience is better at home, and we have been proving it by building some of the finest custom home theaters in the Buckhead and Metro Atlanta areas for decades.

The many effects of the current pandemic have made the proposition for a custom home theater stronger than ever. Many commercial theaters have shut down or offer severely limited capacity. As a result, first-run movies are having a very short theater run or simultaneously appearing on streaming platforms at home. Beyond film, the plethora of options for high-quality video entertainment at home seems to expand daily. Given that, why not take the plunge and build your own custom home theater, one that supremely fits you and your family? Explore three compelling reasons below.

It’s exciting to see how much surveillance technology has advanced since the early days of security cameras when an intruder’s face was hardly recognizable through the grainy, blurry footage. Today, a security camera installation includes crisp, high-definition video resolution, night vision, motion sensors, and other features that help you keep an eye on your Atlanta, GA home 24/7.

We expect to see even more technological advancements in residential security cameras in the coming years. Keep reading to learn three trends that are redefining home surveillance!

Did you know that you can program your home lighting to fit your mood, activities, routines, and schedules? With dimmable LED light fixtures and a centralized control platform from Lutron, you can activate multiple lighting settings with one-touch control on a smartphone, touchscreen tablet, or custom wall keypad. 

A pre-programmed scene instantly sets your lighting components to the color temperature and intensity you desire for a particular mood or activity. Scenes have the potential to simplify so many daily activities — why walk around the house at night, turning off stray lights, when you can press one button on your phone and shut them down from bed?

It’s time to explore how lighting scenes can enhance your unique lifestyle in Atlanta, GA! Keep reading to learn four must-have lighting scenes at home. 

An immersive home cinema draws you right into the media up on the screen. Vivid 4K resolution will blow you away while your seat and the floor will shake with high-fidelity audio that moves all around you for every viewing. But to achieve this grade-A cinematic setup, you need to work with a professional home theater company.

Teaming up with a professional integrator like GHT Group is essential for your theater installation. Bring a top-quality home entertainment space to your Atlanta, GA property with our team’s help.

Find out more about our excellent home theater services by reading on below!

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Smart home control is all about seamless and comprehensive integration. It’s not enough to have one remote that controls the AV system in your home theater. If you really want to live in a smart home, everything should be connected to one robust home automation system. By tapping an icon on a smart touchpad, you should be able to control the lights, surveillance cameras, home audio and video, and every other smart home technology.

Control4 is a leading provider of advanced home automation systems. They help homeowners enjoy one-touch command of every connected technology in their homes. In this blog, we’ll focus on three of the most impressive ways you can enjoy a Control4 home in Atlanta, GA. Keep reading for all the details.

The Lutron difference is undeniable. A world leader in precision-controlled motorized window treatments, Lutron offers the widest breadth of line, with eight shade styles and over 1,500 materials and fabrics. Their shading systems also integrate seamlessly with lights, security systems, climate systems, and home automation systems for ultimate convenience and energy efficiency.

If you’re in the market for Lutron shades, let this blog be your guide as you plan your project. We’ve answered your common questions about Lutron shades, from fabric selection to control options and more. As a Platinum Lutron dealer serving Metro Atlanta, our team at GHT Group has the information you need to make the best decisions for your spaces, style, and budget. Get our tips below.

When you’re feeling down, what’s the one song that gets you feeling better? Even though the songs we turn to may differ—maybe it’s a high-energy punk anthem or nostalgic classic rock ballad—the power of music in enhancing our mood is undeniable. That's not the only way music can positively influence your lifestyle. 

Below, we highlight three ways listening to music can improve your overall wellbeing. Throughout the blog, we'll also showcase ways to use the whole-home audio system in your Atlanta, GA home to embrace the power of music in every room. 

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Home automation, smart homes, connected devices: whatever you might want to call this set of technologies, they are as inexorable a trend as the smartphone revolution. Scarcely a day goes by without another smart device introduction from companies large and small.

Since it’s the beginning of the year, it’s always a good time to make some fearless prognostications on what will be big in home automation for 2021. But we're not going to take big chances on predictions in this blog; the trends we see are already here and will accelerate even more sharply in 2021. What are they, and how might they affect your Atlanta, GA home? Keep reading below.

The current pandemic impacted so much in 2020, and cinemas were not excepted. Major commercial cinema operators like Regal, AMC, and Cinemark have been forced to shutter locations either temporarily or permanently due to local ordinances or health concerns. At the same time, at-home video entertainment consumption increased tremendously in 2020.

As a result of these events, home theaters and media rooms have become more popular than ever. GHT Group has been Atlanta’s go-to home theater company for over 30 years, and we've seen a significant uptick in demand for upgraded home entertainment spaces. We've always kept a keen eye on the latest trends in home theater and audio-visual entertainment (it’s what we do), and we’d like to share with you some of the most significant ones we see going into 2021. Keep reading below!

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With many home projects, a homeowner may see an ad for a specific product, which triggers hours of research into many different products and solutions for the next home improvement investment. While undeniably useful, we tell clients to avoid "rabbit holes" in product study and focus on what they would like for a result.

As one of Atlanta’s oldest and best purveyors of home theaters, GHT Group often sees home theater projects bogged down into the aspects of specific projectors, screens, and sound systems. We like to start with the space and work it from there, rather than design a theater around a particular product.

With landscape lighting design, we like to work the same way. Let's start with your vision and your landscape and work from there. Of course, we can always incorporate a specific product or brand, but it should be done with an eye to enhancing the end result. Keep reading to learn how to "see the forest for the trees" (clever, no?) in your Atlanta home's landscape design.

There’s no sugarcoating it: 2020 has been quite a challenging year. As we look forward to a fresh start in 2021, we hope you’re taking the next few weeks to relax and reflect on the year’s end with the people you love most.

Whether you’re hosting lavish celebrations or enjoying an intimate gathering at home with family this season, you should focus on making memories rather than keeping watch for potential danger. That’s why we’ve put together a few tips that will help strengthen your home security so you can rest peacefully now and through the New Year.

From a smart security camera installation to creating an emergency plan, get our home security tips below to take the next steps toward a safer, happier holiday season in Sandy Springs, GA.

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The audio industry has no shortage of buzzwords, and “high fidelity” is one you may often hear. Perhaps you already know that high fidelity refers to the high-quality reproduction of sound with very minimal distortion. In other words, high-fidelity audio systems reproduce music as close to the original recording as possible so that listeners can enjoy music the way the artists heard it in the studio.

Any music fan deserves a high-quality listening experience when playing their favorite tunes at home. Unfortunately, some homeowners in Vinings, GA may be missing out on such an experience due to persisting misconceptions about high-fidelity speakers. Let’s dispel these myths so that you can truly take advantage of high-performance sound at home.

When you upgrade your home lighting to Ketra tunable LED light fixtures, your lights become much more than a utility. They become part of your home décor. Medicine for improved wellness. A breath of fresh air. Pair them with a Lutron lighting control system, and the LED light fixtures in your Marietta, GA home can rise and fall with you, creating the perfect light for every moment of the day.

From a tranquil morning glow of sunrise to a cool, vibrant afternoon to a warm and serene sunset, Ketra tunable LEDs bring natural light indoors to help you start your day, stay focused, and wind down at night. Read more to step into a day of living with tunable LED lighting fixtures.

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Lighting should be an integral part of home design. Interestingly enough though, it is often an afterthought. Sometimes lighting design is relegated to a line item as an allowance in an overall construction budget. 

Lighting design is both art and science. Established guidelines exist to calculate illumination needs for a given space based on square footage and other considerations. But that aspect may not cover the objectives for the aesthetics or overall feel of a room. You can light it up so there’s plenty of light, but it doesn’t mean it will be right, in much the same way one can fill a room with expensive furnishings but not achieve the goal of a well-designed and sorted space.

Great residential lighting design is both art and science. Read on to learn more about how good lighting design can elevate your Buckhead, GA home. 

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In the not so recent past, tunable lighting was simply not a possibility. As we've discussed on these pages, tunable lighting refers to the ability to control the color temperature of a light source. With incandescent or fluorescent (including compact fluorescent) lighting fixtures, color temperature was fixed - you could get a cool white or warm white bulb of a specific color temperature. If you wanted color, you could get that, but that bulb would forever glow that same color too.

Tunable lighting introduces tremendous new flexibility for the lighting in your home. Science has shown that our bodies react to different light, and it regulates our rhythms, with bright white light providing energy and focus while dimmer, warmer light promotes relaxation and leads to more restful sleep. Beyond wellness, tunable lighting brings aesthetic benefits to your home as well.

When it comes to tunable lighting, one brand stands above the rest. Ketra is the pioneer in tunable LED lighting, and now as part of lighting leader Lutron, forms the most complete and technically advanced tunable lighting solution. Keep reading to learn more about Ketra lighting and how it can enhance your Marietta, GA home.