- ISBN13: 9781592533084
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
New in Paperback!Technical tips for how to achieve a “movie theater” experience in your own home.Home Theater Design is the comprehensive guide to planning all types of entertainment spaces in the home. Author Krissy Rushing reveals how to choose and place acoustic and audio/visual systems to the best advantage; how to plan a home theater or music room; and how to display, store, and care for all types of media formats.This book looks at the aesthetics, too w… More >>
Home Theater Design: Planning and Decorating Media-Savvy Interiors
The first question you have to ask is ‘What is a home theater.’
And the author doesn’t have any better definition than you do, so she has written the book in three sections, and with a definite point of view.
One section is on small systems in small rooms. Here you are basically using more or less standard equipment in more or less standard rooms.
The next section is on multi-purpose rooms, such as a den or living room with a major emphasis on media but still useful for other things.
Finally there’s the dedicated home theater. Here a room is built to make your own small, but technologically, audiologically, aesthetically and in every other way professional quality. This often includes stadium seating, with high quality chairs and tables for drinks and popcorn between the seats.
All in all the book is more concerned with the interior decoration of the home theater than with the technical aspects. I suppose that’s fair, because the rapid change in the technology. Anything you attempted to print in a book would become obsolete at the next Consumer Electronics Show.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is really helpful if you’re planning a home theater system or integrating some type of audio and video stuff inside the house. I had a small house and was able to get lots of tips for designing my a/v system in it. Now that I bought my new house (much larger) I am able to reference the later chapters for dealing with the new challenges. Highly recommend!
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is an excellent recourse for anybody trying to integrate a/v elements to their home. It helped me turn my 1906 craftsman bungalow into an a/v wonderland.
Rating: 5 / 5
I liked the book very much. Goes into great detail on the theory and decorating of home theatres and backs up with great pictures of mid to upper end theatres. If your looking for construction related building and wiring diagrams, this book is not for you. That book would be an incredible companion to this one. Unfortunately given the quick changing pace of the home theatre industry, it would have quickly outdated pictures.
Rating: 5 / 5
This was a great resource for me and my wife’s new house. We just bought a home in the Palisades and didn’t have a clue how to convert an old den downstairs into a home theater/media room. This book walks you through the steps in a really easy to understand fashion. So when it came to hiring the people to install the system and design it, I actually knew what I was talking about and could direct the action!
Rating: 4 / 5