Escape The Real World With Your Own Home Theater
Sunday, January 31st, 2010There’s nothing quite so satisfying as being able to immerse yourself in total darkness before seeing a crystal clear studio logo pop onto the big screen while a blast of DTS digital surround sound overtakes your senses and rumbles beneath you. You are experiencing the rush of watching a movie in a theater. But not just any theater, it’s your home theater.
That’s right. You can kick out people who are bothering you during the movie! It’s all under your control.
You can get a much more satisfying movie experience in your own home and avoid some of the pitfalls of bigger theaters. Not only the annoyances listed previously, but there’s also the factors of cost and convenience.
With the price of a movie ticket running somewhere around $10, plus the cost of snacks, you could easily afford your own home theater just by skipping those evenings out for a year or two. Depending on how expensive your tastes are possibly even sooner than that. And there’s no need to wait for the 7 o’clock showing or stand in line; you can start, stop and schedule your movie showings whenever it’s convenient for you.
Since we’re so excited about a theater in our home we’d been designing our perfect escape since before we bought our house. We were just looking for the perfect house to fit our dreams. We found it a few years ago and proceeded to design our dream theater with gusto. We had most of our cinema equipment (just needing a few finishing touches like the 5.1 digital surround and more monster cables) so we dug into planning everything from the home theater furniture arrangement and style, to carpet color and decor, to the large hinged wall with secret escape route (doesn’t every kid want one?) While making our decisions we looked at a lot of home theater pictures to get better ideas of what was possible.
Since we do most of the design and construction work ourselves we saved thousands of dollars but it also took about a year to “finish.” Well, it’s finished enough for us to enjoy, we are always working on the little touches here and there. Many people hire professionals to design and build their theaters, which saves a lot of time (but not always money.)
After a long hard day at work, or an evening of frustrating parenting, the need to escape reality can become overwhelming. Being able to drop ourselves into complete darkness and seclusion and then immerse ourselves in a full senses banquet of sights and sounds from Hollywood we can quickly forget our own headaches and get wrapped up in the big screen. Those two hours are sanity savers without ever needing to leave the house (or get candy thrown at our heads).
The next step in the project was to find the perfect wallmount plasma tv stands for our theater setup, but that’s another dicussion.
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