Movies Are Just the Beginning

For many, the vision of a home theater is a dedicated, darkened room with a giant screen and a multi-speaker sound system with ample power to recreate the cinema experience. But that’s not necessarily everyone’s idea of a home theater.

With all the video content available today, feature films are just one of the options for a home theater viewing experience. Sports, binge-worthy Netflix Series, YouTube, HBO, music videos, and more can all be enjoyed even more on the biggest screen in the house. Your home theater doesn’t have to be a recreation of a movie palace; it should be a space to enjoy all your favorite media.

Go beyond the movie for your next home theater in your Richmond, VA home. Here are three excellent ideas to spark your imagination.  

Control4 Smart Automation is a Smart Investment for Today’s Homes

With recent home sale prices and values in the U.S. rising at a rapid clip, homebuyers are feeling more confident that the value of their investment will increase over time. Rising home values tends to have the effect of making homeowners spend more on home improvement projects as they expect their investments will ultimately result in higher home value when it’s time to sell.

Smart technology is continuing to be one of the top features homebuyers are demanding. Smart automation, security, and entertainment devices and services are growing at double-digit rates. Homebuyers are increasingly looking at smart automation to add energy efficiency, safety, aesthetic value, and lifestyle convenience to their homes. As a design professional or builder, it makes sense to consider smart home features from the beginning in your projects. And the best way to do that is to work with a Control4 dealer to integrate class-leading home automation technology the right way.

Keep reading for three smart home features that will make your residential projects in Richmond, VA, more appealing to your clients – and add long-term value to boot.

What to Consider When Building Your Dream Home Cinema

A home theater can be many things. It may be a highly stylized and decorated room formally outfitted with the latest gear for watching films of all types. It can also be a multipurpose media room set up to enjoy sports, video games, Netflix binges, music videos, and anything that can be enjoyed on a big screen with equally big sound.

Home theaters are anything but simple, involving a myriad of details to consider that range from technical to aesthetic. The best theaters and media rooms are put together by a team of professionals and skilled trades, each with their own expertise but working together to build the theater you envision for your Richmond, VA home. So what should you know about home theater installations? It's less about technical details and more about what you want for the end result. Read below for more!

Smart Lighting Systems Add Luxury and Aesthetic Appeal

Lighting control is one of the most sought-after smart home features. From the design and build side, you understand how managing light effectively will transform the look and feel of a home. Automated control can create the perfect lighting look for any space. That's why we partner with Control4 to bring our trade partners innovative and exciting designs that WOW.

Keep reading to learn a few different ways we can help you incorporate Control4 lighting control into your next project.

Control4 OS 3 Sets a New Bar for Powerful Control with Intuitive Ease

Starting in 2003, Control4 set out to reset expectations in smart home automation. Over the years, they have created a complete home control suite that changed the way people could manage and interact with their homes for easier daily living. Not only did they offer their own solutions, but they also designed a smart home operating system that orchestrated many third-party products – in fact, thousands of them.

Control4's latest system, OS 3, takes everything they have learned from many thousands of smart home installations and puts even more power into the user's hands, with greater personalization, intuitive design, and effortless control. Keep reading below to see how Control4 OS 3 reimagines the smart home experience in Goochland, County, VA.