Home Theater Design - Rock and Roll Album Covers

Just completed a really cool little project for a Dealers showroom. He's obviously a big Rock & Roll fan (as I am)and wanted to highlight this passion via a large decorative acoustic panel featuring his favorite albums.

He sent 15 album covers for me to scan. I can't remember the last time I even held an album...so sad...those were the days. Anyway, the dimensions for the albums are 12.25" x 12.25". Unfortunately, my scanner is only 11" long, so I had to scan each cover 4 times to capture the entire album. The overall size of the print is 40"x 60".

One of the cool parts of the project was that the Dealer wanted to keep the worn out look of the covers. However, I still wanted the colors to look vibrant. So I had to juggle tweaking the image just enough so I didn't eliminate all those glorious imperfections.

Can't wait to see the final print.

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Home Theater Design - Wine Cellar

I often say that your Home Theater is a great vehicle to showcase your true passion or hobby.

If you are a wine affecionado what better way to share your dedication to the grape than to express yourself via a Wine Themed Home Theater.

We recently helped design a theater using a great panoramic image of a wine cellar. We divided the image into 6 panels and even placed the clients name on one of the barrels to make it appear that it was his cellar.

It was a challenge to find an image large enough to accomodate all the panels in the theater. The client requested a custom 10'x4' sized panel on the back wall, to go along with the five 4'x5' panels on the side wall.

Fortunately, we were able to find an image that nailed the concept and was large enough for our application.

We are actually working on another Wine Themed Theater and will discuss this when we are further along.

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When Designing Your Home Theater Don't Forget the Acoustics

When I speak to A/V Dealers about our acoustic panels they typically tell me that the vast majority of their clients budget is spent on the audio and video equipment.

Well if you are investing at least $10K on your equipment you need to consider the acoustic environment that you are placing this equipment in. The typical room will most likely be made up of several hard surfaces that will contribute to the room sounding like an echo chamber.

Indeed, here in South Florida many of the homes are relatively new and have high ceilings and tile floors. A discusion between 4 people can sound like a concert at MSG.

So any investment in a Home Theater that features great equipment must also budget for acoustic treatments. The most common and easy to install treatments are acoustic panels. The panels absorb the sound waves, basically eliminating the waves from bouncing off all the hard surfaces in the room.

In the past the acoustic panels were made with muted color fabrics which lead to many a fight between the wife(and/or Designer) and the husband. Fortunately, we have created Acoustic Panel Decor that can enhance the aesthetics of the room as well as the overall sound environment.

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Home Theater Design Concepts

Home Theaters allow people to create a room that reflects their true personality. Many of our clients take advantage of the opportunity to use their theater as a way to show their family and friends another, more dynamic, side of theme selves.

We recently worked on a project for a fairly conservative professional lawyer, who happened to love James Bond. We eventually created a very colorful and slick "Bond" theme that defied his outward appearance.

The best way to create a themed Home Theater is via the use of acoustic-friendly prints that just happens to be our core product. The prints, which are wrapped around acoustic panels allow us to create any theme while maintaining the acoustic integrity of the high-end equipment that is used in most Home Theater Designs.

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