What Makes a Home Theater/Sports Bar

If you have done your fair share of pub crawling, it may be time to merge the sports bar into your home theater. You only have to put on your favorite jersey and then enjoy watching your team without having to step out of the house. One downside, however: your friends may not want to […]

Add 3 Ryan Seacrest Touches to Your Home Theater

To bring in a celebrity-approved home theater design into your basement, you need not be a host of an enormously popular TV show, rule the airwaves or produce a string of reality shows. You can just sneak a peek into American Idol fixture Ryan Seacrest’s elegant but cozy crib to take a few hints on […]

4 Areas People Skimp in Home Theaters

The jury is still out there on what equipment makes or breaks a home theater. Not every homeowner drooling over a Steinway Lyngdorf, however, can afford to deck out their living rooms with the finest. For most of those whose budgets have been stretched as far as they would go, a compromise is often the […]

Build a Rosie O’Donnell-style Home Theater

Rosie O’Donnell certainly knows her home theater. Inside the recently built brownstone that the talk-show host purchased in the upscale neighborhood of the Windy City, nestled one of the reasons why she snapped up the house. Its entertainment hub, or hubs since other rooms are outfitted with wall-mounted flat screens as well, would make anyone […]

Can Tablets be Mini Home Theaters?

Granting you adore every bit of your home theater design, you cannot be a true video gamer, movie freak or audiophile if you have not, at the very least, given the tablets like the iPad, a second glance. Here is how it measures up to your home theater: Sound When it comes to sound, the […]

How to Sort Through HDMI Cables

There are certain aspects in home theater design that may not dazzle you as much as 60-inch plasma TV does but will be so nifty and valuable that you will wonder how you managed to live without it. One such item are the popular HDMI Cables (High Definition Multimedia Interface). If you have not heard […]

4 Quick Ways to Streamline Your Home Theater

Once you have rounded out all the home theatre systems you need, you will soon notice that the once-empty space you had is now cramped with gadgets. While the clutter may not be what you had in mind when you dreamed up of the room, it is an inevitable result if you are intent on […]

Why a Basement Home Theater Can Be Daunting

Many homeowners with basements would assume that the best use for the room will be a home theater. Cliché as it may sound, the basement can indeed be made into an entertainment center. This will free up the living room from tall media cabinets and gaming chairs strewn on the floor and leave it as […]

How to Design a Home Theater in Your Spare Time

Home theater design can be as complex a project as you wish or as simple your purse strings will allow. If this interest in building an entertainment system in your home has just dawned on you and all the technical details you learned on your research have given you a headache, then approach the project […]

Home Theaters Get Green Makeover

For every home theater installation you do in your living room, you are adding to your overall energy consumption. Sure, each new device may not always make a dent in your wallet, but if you consider  all the electronics you have in your home, they can add up. Look for Options First, be aware that […]