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How Smart Lighting Can Improve Your Home Theater Experience

Home theater design is all about adapting your room to enhance your new speakers, projector, and screen. Every aspect of the space can be adjusted to give you the best audio and video quality possible. One of the most important contributors to an excellent viewing experience is proper theater lighting. Smart cinema room lighting can improve your home theater experience in numerous ways, including:

• Eliminating ambient lighting
• Adding convenience through centralized control
• Enhancing multi-use spaces with curated lighting scenes
• Adding luxury and convenience through lighting automation

With the implementation of smart lighting, you can have an exceptional movie-viewing experience in your Wilmette, IL, home that mimics a commercial theater. Below, we’ll take a closer look at how smart theater lighting can improve your home theater experience.

PREPARING YOUR SPACE TO BECOME THE ULTIMATE ENTERTAINMENT HOT SPOT!

Adding a surround sound system can greatly enhance your home entertainment experience, whether you’re watching movies, binging shows, or enjoying the big game, but there are several factors that you should take into consideration before embarking on this exciting project for your Wilmette, IL, home theater or media room. 

Our team will walk you through the process from start to finish, but understanding what goes into this type of project is essential. Keep reading below to learn more!

Home theater design is all about creating the perfect environment for the images and sounds from your favorite movies to flourish. Every little corner of the room is taken into account to make sure your speakers, screens, and projector are given the necessary space to shine. When we're brought in on retrofit jobs to fix old DIY home theaters, we often come upon the same design mistakes that can result in blurred images, muffled sound and an uncomfortable viewing experience. Below we go over some of these common challenges and how we can help you overcome them.

SEE MORE: 4 Steps to Designing the Ultimate Home Theater System

1. Uncomfortable Seating Arrangements

As you begin work on your home theater system, you need to figure out how you want to use it. Will it be primarily used by the family? Then a communal couch where everyone can huddle together under a blanket may be the best option. If you’re going to use it with friends, it may be more comfortable if everyone has their own leather recliner. If you don’t consider this from the start, you may end up with an awkward arrangement that ruins the viewing experience.

2. Fitting All the Necessary Speakers