Popular Options to Consider for Your Home Theater

Home theaters should be considered multi-use entertainment spaces - more than simply a room for watching movies. Yes, they’re great for viewing your favorite films or a new release, but they are also perfect for watching sports on the big screen, gaming, binge-watching a series, and entertaining friends while watching events. 

Home theater design can run the gamut from sleek ultra-modern to a traditional movie palace. Regardless of the style, we have a few ideas that can help your home cinema be a more entertaining, comfortable, and fun space. While you can use various contractors to add these features, we suggest hiring a knowledgeable and experienced home theater company (like GHT Group) to put it all together in your Vinings, GA, home. Keep reading to learn more about our top recommendations. 

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Motorized Shades

Is your home theater a windowless room? If so, you can skip this recommendation! In all seriousness, not all home theaters are in windowless basements or rooms. Motorized shades are a must in a home theater that might double as a game room or other entertainment space. First, there’s the incredible convenience of pushing a button to close your shades to darken your room for watching a movie or show. Even better, combine it with home automation and automatically draw your shades when you hit play for entertainment. 

Plus, you don’t always have to use your theater fully darkened. With modern light-absorbing screens, you can watch Saturday and Sunday football games with some natural light. Your motorized shades can have a light filtering material along with a blackout shade when you need it, and both can be motorized and automated! Motorized window treatments make any room an incredibly flexible home theater. 

Accent Lighting

Want to add a little flair to your home cinema? Today’s LED lighting has created many options for accent lighting. Make your ceilings look like those beautiful ones in Las Vegas shopping emporiums with LED lights that simulate a starry night. It adds beauty and just the lightest touch of functionality. Other options include color; you can add it behind your screen, along floors for subtle illumination, and to highlight a ceiling. With LED strip lighting, you can also use color. Go purple for gaming, and go with team colors for game watch days – change the color with your mood or whim. And with lighting control as part of your theater automation system, you can coordinate the lights with your motorized shades, AV equipment, climate control, and more. 

Multiple Screens

Your home theater can be a multi-purpose space. What if you don’t always want to watch something on a 12-foot screen? You can hide your screen and projector in the ceiling and drop them down with motors and automation when you want them. When they’re stored, you can use a large flat-screen TV for regular watching of news, shows, or anything else you may want to watch casually and without darkening the room. With multiple screen options, your home theater can be your go-to entertainment space anytime. 

Are you ready to get started on a custom home theater? We invite you to visit our 20,000-square-foot Marietta showroom, reach out to us here, or click the chat below to connect with us. We would love to help you!