Whether your media room is a home movie theater, a gamer cave or somewhere to listen to your favorite music, it may be due for an upgrade. Streamlining the technology and design of your home’s electronic hub makes all your media even more immersive. Here are a few ways a well-designed system can transform your home’s most relaxing space.
Hide Unsightly Wires in Your Media Room
The most impressive graphics and sound technology in your home are probably in one room. All of those electronics may translate to dozens of wires cutting across the floor and walls.
Wires not only break immersion and harm the design of the room, but also they can be a safety hazard. Small children can trip on wires, coatings can fray and pets can chew them. If you want to replace a piece of equipment or rearrange the room, multiple wires and outlets can be confusing to navigate.
A redesign hides these wires for maximum safety and function. It also organizes wires so that you can easily make adjustments to your electronics setup over time.
Add Smart Functionality and Stop Looking for Remotes
If you need a caddy or a dedicated side table to house all of your remote controls, it’s time to upgrade. A smart home automation system can make it so you never go looking for the right remote or button again. Intuitive controls link to a tablet, phone or even voice controls. This both saves you time and improves the function of your home electronics setup.
Let Media Room Professionals Handle the Tech
Coordinating many pieces of electronics into one polished system is a difficult task, and it can be frustrating if you don’t know the ins and outs of smart control systems. At Next Level, our experts handle all of the technical headaches for you. Contact us today to upgrade, beautify, and organize your home’s media room.
Technology sometimes seems to work like magic, and it appears nearly everything is possible. Setting up a seamless whole home audio system on your own should be easy, right? Not necessarily. Consider how a multi-room audio setup improves your home and what it takes to make it happen.
What Whole Home Audio Involves
A comprehensive sound system requires multi-zone receivers to send an audio signal to various locations throughout your home. The arrangement allows you to play the same audio in different rooms or have each room play individual programs.
While setting up a home audio system may seem as simple as connecting everything through Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, a totally wireless setup rarely supplies superior sound. Weather, obstructions and an abundance of signals can interfere with communication. Structured wiring is still the most stable, secure and inexpensive connection.
Of course, no one wants an unsightly and unsafe web of cords bunching up around their home. Creating an attractive system requires expert understanding of how to wire a home discreetly. Additionally, a skilled technician ensures speakers blend in with your decorating scheme so the acoustics appear out of thin air like magic.
Why Whole Home Audio Is Ideal
The correct sound at the right place enhances any experience. For example, you need quiet concentration in your home office, so you might desire brown noise or inspirational content. Spa sounds with flowing water and animal activity can make bathrooms a soothing oasis. Any time you want to change the audio experience in a zone or room, your system’s master controls on your device allow you to direct it all in an instant.
Your audio sources are not limited to what’s on your phone or TV. Enjoy the old-school warmth of vinyl or the current news and weather from AM/FM radio by connecting them into your audio system. Another bonus is that with structured wiring in place, you can increase the value of your home.
How To Install a Whole Home Audio System
A whole home audio system upgrades your entire living experience, but installation requires expert help. Look to Next Level for guidance in turning your property into the ideal soundscape.
A home security system can reside on the interior or exterior of a home, or some combination of both. Homeowners can generally view their security footage from anywhere in the world, making these systems ideal for those who travel often. Here are a couple of the many reasons to install a security system in the home.
For Security
The most obvious reason to install a security system in or around the house is to help secure the location. Often, simply the presence of a camera is enough to deter a potential home intruder or thief. However, even for criminals who are more brazen or who do not notice the camera, the home security system can still provide protection. For example, a homeowner might notice someone suspicious continuing to drive by their house late at night and take precautions such as leaving a light on outside or parking a car outside to further deter the person.
In addition to installing cameras for video, having an alarm system can help provide security by drawing attention to the potential home invader.
To Watch Pets
Watching pets is one of the more fun reasons that come with having an indoor security camera, but it can also be helpful to the pet as well. For example, if a pet owner is away on vacation or business and notices that their pet seems bored or stressed when they are gone, they can take steps to either hire a pet sitter or decrease the number of days they are away from home next time.
Purchasing a Home Security System
A homeowner should purchase their security system from someone they trust. Next Level sells a wide variety of home security systems, so we encourage home and business owners to contact us today to discuss what system works best for their home or business. We also provide support in addition to our products.
Watching classic Christmas movies and other holiday favorites is a special way to celebrate. Creating an amazing entertainment area for watching movies will help you make the most of this much-loved holiday pastime.
Home Theaters Can Help You Get the Family Together
Spending time with family and friends is one of the things that people cherish most about the holiday season. Home theaters are fantastic in-home venues to bring everyone together to do something fun.
Watch Your Favorites When You Want
If you install a theater in your home, you can always see your favorites on the big screen. Whether you’re nostalgic about the classics or you’re into modern action adventures, you can be assured of seeing your top picks every holiday season.
Stay Comfy and Cozy While Staying Away From the Crowds
The holidays are a busy time of year for theaters. Avoid long lines, sold out shows, and lousy seats. Instead, enjoy the best holiday movies at home.
Home Theaters Maximize Cinematic Experiences
With a great home theater, you and your loved ones will love seeing your favorite yuletide films even more. Home theaters with large screen TVs that have 4K resolution and speakers that feature outstanding audio quality make movie-watching an immersive cinematic experience. Reach out to Next Level for professional help designing the perfect entertainment area for your home.
Holidays get-togethers are a fun time to connect with family and friends. Any gathering has three important components: good food, good company, and good music. Whole home audio is your solution for the best quality music. Your favorite holiday hits can play throughout the house according to your customizations. This system provides benefits that you can’t get through traditional speakers alone.
1. High-Quality Sound With Whole Home Audio
An integrated system installed by leaders in the industry will ensure that you have the highest-quality sound. Trying to link speakers yourself, using radios, or distributing cheap speakers throughout the house will compromise sound quality. To ensure that your guests have the best experience, install a superior system.
2. Whole Home Audio Allows Volume Control
Working from one single speaker, you need to crank up the volume to distribute it across the house. This can cause problems with your neighbors or discomfort for guests. Their experience will degrade as they move farther away from the central speaker. You can avoid these issues with a whole home audio solution. You control each room or zone individually, keeping the overall volume at a reasonable level. Alternatively, guests can control it according to their own preferences.
Whole home audio is the smart solution for your holiday gatherings.
While “holiday lighting” may make you think of a string of lights on a tree, there are more sophisticated ways to use lighting to deck your halls. With the right lighting automation, your home lighting can welcome guests, safeguard your security and maintain an overall merry atmosphere throughout the festive season.
Lighting Automation from the Everyday to Special Days
Once upon a time, lighting automation may have simply comprised attaching a timer and setting a lighting schedule. However, more complex levels of automating your home lighting are available these days. Smart home systems can even program your lights to coordinate with specific events, like the opening of specific doors, the presence of people in a room or the rising or setting of the sun.
For holidays, you want your lighting automation to control not only your home’s general ambient lighting, but also the special holiday lights of your decor, inside and outside. Home automation systems like Control4 let you create different programs for different circumstances. For example, you could have a “Holiday Nights” scheme, which controls your light display every night throughout the season, plus a “Christmas Party” scheme that’s just for holiday entertaining. Don’t forget a “Christmas Vacation” setting; lighting automation that prevents your home from looking deserted while you travel boosts your home’s security.
Control4 Is More Than Lighting Automation
You want a lighting automation system you choose is worth the investment, and Control4 is one of the most trusted brands in this sector. While some people choose to automate their lights alone, Control4 allows you to integrate your lighting with other automated elements for the full smart home experience.