Fans of horror movies know how important the atmosphere is when watching a scary movie. Watching a horror movie on a cell phone screen while you ride a city bus is a major difference than a darkened movie theater. If you have a dedicated home theater, learn about upgrades and features that will improve the horror movie experience.
Each element improves the experience, and all the upgrades blend together to create the ultimate horror movie home theater experience.
Blackout Curtains and Blinds
Watching a horror movie at night is naturally scarier. The darkness brings a lot of unknown and will draw all of the focus directly to the movie screen. Keep your home theater dark for every horror movie screening with blackout curtains and blinds. Typically, you would choose one of the two options to block out light.
For smaller windows, a small set of curtains will easily cover the glass. Blackout blinds provide full coverage over larger windows in a home theater. Ideally, you want to install automated blinds and connect them to smart house controls. When you want to watch a movie, you can press a button to have the blinds automatically shut and block out the light.
Wireless Surround Sound Speakers
Sound is an essential part of horror movies. From classic movie soundtracks like Jaws to tiny details and jump scares, proper sound can really enhance the way you enjoy horror movies. Wireless surround sound speakers will provide you with the sound original filmmakers intended.
Due to a lack of natural light and ample storage space, a walk-in closet is an ideal location for people to store collectibles like action figures, dolls, and movie memorabilia. A walk-in closet provides a lot of options for the collectibles, but you can cater the area to even more collectible storage with closet upgrades.
Learn how specific upgrades improve collectible displays and how you can completely transform the way you showcase some of your favorite items.
If you have a spare bedroom in your home and want to transform the space, then a rec room is an ideal option. A rec room provides living space to play games, watch movies, and enjoy stand-alone arcades. As you plan the rec room design, you will run into the need for upgrades to make the room more useful.
Use this guide to learn about the room conversion and ways professional contractors can help make the rec room design become a reality.
Whether you’re building a home theater from scratch or renovating an existing room, few aspects will be as critical as the room’s acoustics. While you may have the freedom to design the perfect theater space in a custom home, most homeowners will need to work with the room they have. Luckily, you have plenty of ways to modify and improve the acoustics of an existing space.
Equipment can come and go as technology improves, but the acoustics of your room will continue to impact your enjoyment of your home theater for its entire lifetime. By understanding the essentials of enhancing your room’s acoustic qualities, you can turn a good home theater into a great one.
Hotels include unique features to help the locations stand out and cater directly to guests. If you love the hotel experience while on vacation, then consider implementing some hotel features into your personal bedroom.
The upgrades add protection, make your life easier to manage, and include a lot ideal features for your everyday bedroom use.
Surveillance cameras are essential for both small and established businesses. Gone are the days when business owners used to hire people to sit around and watch what goes on in the premises. This approach was tiresome, costly, and ineffective.
With the advancement of technology came surveillance cameras that have helped many companies enhance safety and security. This article highlights a few benefits of security cameras and shows why your commercial building should have them.
Reduce Crime Rates
Camera surveillance is an effective strategy to deter criminal activities in your company. Cameras can significantly reduce crime rates in your company because they enable you to monitor employees and visitors within the premises and take action to prevent crime.
Besides, most people are reluctant to commit criminal acts in businesses that are under camera surveillance.
For many homes with families, a garage quickly becomes a place to dump bikes, dirty shoes, and outdoor items you do not want in the home. The organization of your garage can go a long way to provide cleanliness and help make the garage more useful on a daily basis.
Follow our guide to help brainstorm ideas for your garage and how upgrades and remodels will help the whole family.
In the world of home theaters, technology constantly evolves. In the past decades, we’ve gone from basic flat screen televisions to HD to 4K and now 8K televisions have started getting introduced to the market. When you invest a lot of money into a home theater, you want tech which will last for years to come.
As you plan out your home theater upgrade, consider the following options which will last for years in the future. The upgrades include a wide range of options and feature timeless options that adapt around ever-changing devices like televisions.
Parents, whether new or experienced, rarely have extra time to organize the chaos that can overcome their child’s room closets. Discover some easy tips and tricks to help both kids and adults keep their closets clean and spiffy.
Helpful Hanging
You have many ways to hang a child’s belongings besides the standard closet rod.
For a fun rainy day project, decorate a piece of construction paper, cardboard, or foam board, and hot glue ribbons to the back that dangle long ways down. You can then clip hair bows and accessories to the ribbons. Then, place the ribbon board on a door or wall.
While identity theft has been around for a long time, it seems to be becoming more and more common both online and off. For this reason, you need to make sure you are fully protected from identity thieves. To reduce your risk of becoming a victim, check out these five tips to prevent and correct identity theft.
1. Create Unique Passwords Frequently
While it’s tempting to creating one, easy-to-remember password for every account, it also makes it easier for identity thieves to access your information. They simply need to learn your password once and they can access any account that uses the password, including bank accounts.
Todd at A Tech did an awesome job setting up all the electronics in our basement. We have surround sound and all of the electronics are hidden in a closet with only 1 remote. My husband is techy so he worked with A Tech more than I did but my only request to Todd was that I needed to be able to watch tv and play a dvd without asking for help (I am not techy!) One fabulous remote runs everything and has pictures and an easy menu! They also fixed the internet issue in our house! Very Happy Customers!
-Maureen Mitchell
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Todd designed a whole house audio system with separate controls for every room with one receiver. He was extremely knowledgeable about speaker placement, size and quality. The end product is amazing. He also recommended a remote that controls everything. This is one of my favorite features.
I have also purchased several items for my garage organization that I love. They have everything from home audio, garage organization to kitchen items in the store. Will continue to do business with them as I still need closet organization.
-Gabe Bosma
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This is the perfect place to go when you have no idea what to get your relatives for Christmas/birthdays. They have fun gadgets all the way up to amazing electronics. Their customized closets are also something just about anyone can use. Who doesn't want to save some space in their home? Stop by and check it out sometime.
-Chandler Faldet
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We have had our Beam Central Vac for over 15 years and absolutely love it! It is convenient, easy to use and best of all - keeps the 'dust' out of the home!. We have had very good service when we needed it, we replaced the motor in the unit once (very reasonable) and had replaced the power brush handle once. Pretty good for a unit that is over 15 years old!
The folks at A Tech Easy Living Store are knowledgeable and very willing to assist in any way they can. Highly recommend visiting the store! They have LOTS of items that can make your life easier in your home!
-John Mauch
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Great products! Exceptional Service! I was out of idea for what to buy my wife. I stopped at The Easy Living Store and they had all I needed to make her happy. I would have never thought of a self opening garbage can as a great gift idea, but they said she would love it and she did! I was amazed at everything the store had to offer and how helpful the staff was there. I will go back.
-H.A. Gross
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ATech is a great company to work with. Todd T. works hard to ensure your project is completed on time and on budget. He has great attention to detail and has many solutions for many different areas of your home. The Company has been around for a long time and has a great reputation in our community. Thanks!
-Jacob Burkhart
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Todd did an awesome job getting all the components into our basement home theater system that my techy husband wanted plus making it easy for me to run with only one remote. We are very happy! The guys that came to install the systems were polite and patient with me and took time to explain how to work it all!
-Maureen Mitchell
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A Tech Easy Living is the "go to" place for my organization needs. They have items I didn't even know existed that solved my organization needs. And the service is impeccable. They are very attentive and help me find what I need to solve my problem.
-Ernie Moore
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I have hard wood floors and Beam has a attachment I bought it at the store and it is a God send I simply love it, it is a dry mop on the vac! Amazing! I'm buying a spare mop when I go back! I bought my vac at Van Berkum's in Pella (Where I live) never will I go back there, they sent my head out for as a loaner and gave me some one elses. How is that for doing business! We argued for a long time about this and was getting no where she kept saying that it was my head, I will never go back there to buy anything! I'm 60 minutes from Des Moines and I will take my vac to be serviced at the Easy Living Store anytime!
-Jo Owens-Lovett
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Easy living best describes the results you get from this store. From hi-tech entertainment systems, whole house vacuums, closet organizers and much more...this store has it all. And for kitchen gadgets and accessories, they are well stocked.
-Nick Gelormino
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Todd and his staff were very professional and easy to work with during our recent project of updating our home entertainment system. I wouldn't think twice about referring A Tech Easy Living Store!!! Thanks
-DJ Bork
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wish every home repair could be this easy!!! My central vacuum was having issues, burned out motor, poor connection and an outlet issue. The technician called me a bit early and said he was ahead of schedule, perfect! He was waiting when i got there, diagnosed it in about 10 minutes, I asked how long it would take to get the parts, he said he had them on the truck! I thought maybe they were generic, but when they made the appt they asked what model. He made the right diagnosis and fixed in about 20 minutes!
Couldn't really ask for much more!!! The only remote downside was when I called on saturday the lady asked me to call back on monday.
Great service and a great experience!
-Sean Sellers
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I live in a 50's home. I had A Tech come and redo my closets for me. They had great ideas, listened to my input and now I have great closets, even though I live in an older home!