Home Cinema Design and Design

The very term "home theater" arose when flat TVs appeared, and its association with the concepts of prosperity and even luxury is very stable. But now, a few years later, a flat screen is difficult for anyone to surprise - who does not have it? A few years later, there was such a thing as designing home theaters. Moscow, and behind it, and other major cities began to offer the services of specialized firms to organize home cinemas "turnkey" to those who could afford it.

The owners of spacious houses, sound and carefully planned, strive to provide themselves and their loved ones with the maximum level of comfort and accessibility of all those pleasures that allow to have modern technologies. Designing a home theater system with the equipment according to the latest achievements is a matter of the high-class specialist, who can deal with a lot of problems and pitfalls.

What does he look like

What is a modern home theater? Almost everyone, at the first mention, associates it with a spacious room, comfortable and stylish furniture, a modern speaker system, a large screen and a high-quality projector. But not everything is so simple. It is not enough to buy and place everything mentioned in a separate room.

Designing a home theater system with installation involves a number of stages - from project development from scratch to installation and setup of technology - both video and audio. Includes this process in itself and the necessary measures for the acoustic decoration of the room and its high-quality sound insulation. To spent, sometimes very considerable funds, not wasted in vain, each stage should be properly worked out.

What you should take care of

Designing a home theater system consists in the procedure of the most careful selection of all components of the system. The acoustic parameters of the chosen room, its features in terms of architecture, light, etc., must be taken into account. The optimal cable channel materials and their configuration, the composition and length of each of the circuits must be provided in the project. Thoroughly thought out should be the location of all power points, as well as the management of the cinema.

Do not forget that even the smallest home hall is a copy of this "adult" cinema. Despite the small size, the requirements for it are quite professional. The difference is only in scale. Your cinema hall should not differ in principle from the public in terms of sound quality and picture quality.

How to choose the right room

It must be necessarily isolated. Designing a home theater in an ordinary living room is an unfortunate option. Most often, it has an irregular shape and too large a glazing area. In addition, in the living room there are always sharp corners and several passes to other rooms. All such circumstances do not help his use for the indicated purposes.

Small details of the interior will contribute to the fragmentation of sound with its distortion and damage to the impression of the process. Linear parameters of the future cinema hall (length, width, height) should not be correlated among themselves in multiple calculus, otherwise there will be a crossing of sound waves reflected from the ceiling and walls, which, overlapping, can change beyond recognition.

About soundproofing

Extremely important is the issue of soundproofing, which also need to be considered when choosing a separate room under the cinema. It is especially relevant when designing a home theater in an apartment. Doors in the room intended for it should be thick and close tightly and reliably. Each void in the wall and between the structures should be filled with materials with good sound insulation properties.

For surface treatment, there are special suspended acoustic ceilings, as well as wall panels. A simple drapery will also help. Excellent quality of soundproofing is provided by bulk floors, in which below the decorative facing there is a layer of fine gravel or sand.

What else is important

A lot depends on the chosen acoustics. In particular, focusing on it, choose finishing materials and interior solutions. If the acoustics are of poor quality or not matched correctly, the sound of even the most expensive complex can be killed. Quality sound refers to the component of the system only by 11%, the remaining 89% depends on the parameters of the room in the acoustic plane.

Thus, disregard for proper preparation of the future cinema hall can become that main and most serious mistake that will nullify all your efforts.

Order service?

Calculating the cost of the procedure for preparing the acoustics of the hall is possible at a preliminary stage, taking into account the layout of the room, the existing furniture, materials of building structures. The smaller the room, the more resources will be required by the process of acoustic processing.

Such a service as the design and installation of home theaters is now available on a professional level. The specialist will choose the prospective plan for the furniture arrangement, using a special computer program capable of simulating the behavior of sound in a future cinema.

What should not be in the room

Smooth, with a rigid surface structure (like walled walls) should be removed or masked. They need to be made soft and embossed. All the items from plastic, laminate, glass, metal, ceramics and tiles are removed from the room, the same applies to the skin. It is very desirable to trim the walls with mineral plaster or natural wood, to lay thick carpets and curtains of dense fabric. It would be nice to glue wallpaper on a fabric or carpet type.

The room should not have many windows. Available curtains as closely as possible curtains in several layers. Under strict prohibition - dish shelves and furniture from glass. Soft sofas with a large number of pillows, fluffy long-sleeved carpets on the floor and on the walls are welcome.

How to successfully place the "seats"? Usually they put columns on either side of a large sofa, which as a result is on the line of intersection of the sound axes. Do not place additional chairs on the sides of it - sitting in them will feel considerable discomfort from the sound imbalance between the channels.

Home Cinema Designing - Setting Up and Choosing Video Equipment

The topic of the importance of competent selection of video components in the explanations does not need. After all, we are talking about the main component - a quality image on your home screen. The choice is among a huge number of televisions, projectors, plasma panels, etc. What specifically to purchase depends not only on the material possibilities, but also on the technical parameters and conditions in which the viewing will take place.

The main criterion, which should be equal, choosing a projector, - the standard Full HD. Your technician should be able to play a high definition image that has a progressive scan. Although plasma panels are considered universal, but better than a good projector with digital inputs HDMI, DV, iLINK, DVI has not been invented yet.

Do not forget about the component part of the cinema. This is a DVD player, a receiver or an amplifier with a processor. For the entire set of equipment at home cinema, they play the role of a computer designed to decode the sound and image from DVDs. These devices ensure high-quality operation of all acoustics, acting as a switching center.

The screen is our all

The screen is an equally important component in the arrangement of the home hall. The involvement of the viewer in the action is directly related to the size of the image. Any movie looks better on the big screen. Here, of course, everything depends on the room. Proportion is better to take 16: 9 (1.77: 1), but if your requirements for image quality are high enough, you can take a smaller screen - about 75 cm wide.

The modern Multiroom system gives you the possibility of obtaining surround sound of the highest quality. Designing a home theater with a system of equipment class HI-END allows you to make a modernized cinema almost from any conditions. With the installation of audio multiroom and competent tuning, you can enjoy pure sound in the rooms of a variety of types. If you install such a video with a home theater, your system will be unique and will be appreciated by true lovers of high-class cinema.

On possible design options

Designing a home theater in the house is possible both at the planning stage of the room, and during new construction or major repairs. If perestroika is not necessary, we must proceed from what is available.

The first option (when the room is only planned) - the most reasonable and effective. The installer works together with the designer, coordinating all the nuances. The result is a neat and harmonious installation of all necessary equipment in the room.

In this version, it is easiest to take into account a number of important nuances concerning the exact dimensions of the room, its volume, the features of acoustics and architecture. You can carefully consider the sound insulation and all the necessary preparation of the room.

Designing a home theater - installing equipment in a finished room

If you embark on the project of your cinema at the stage of repair or construction, there is also an advantage, although the degree of freedom of creativity is already partially limited. But still you can seriously reflect on the optimal placement of acoustics, laying wires, inserting video and audio outlets, installing boxes to install the acoustics that will be arranged. In this case, you will get rid of the inevitable rework and endless reconfigurations.

If designing a home theater involves setting it up in a finished room - this option is not the most successful, although it is found most often. You have to clean existing wiring in special boxes, it will be difficult to fit all the necessary components into the interior of the finished room. In this scenario, the most successful choice will be the involvement of a serious specialist with extensive experience in such installations.

Summing up

Conclusion: designing a home theater with your own hands is a difficult task, not only from the technical point of view, but from all other points of view, not to mention the material one. But all the difficulties sooner or later remain behind, and on one of the beautiful days you sit down in front of a huge screen on a soft sofa and with pleasure press the Play button.

All! You have a new life! Feelings of having all the richness of sounds and shades can not be compared to anything! Fantastically beautiful landscapes, the roar of a mountain avalanche, the sound of the surf - all this is now yours. The magnificent sound of music you will feel literally to the taste and with great satisfaction remember the words of the classic that the most important of all arts for us is the cinema. Now this is a miracle in your home - in your own hands.