Dramatic Spike in Demand for Safe Rooms
Security is a growing concern among homeowners, and one of the best ways to incorporate a safe room into your home is to plan for it at the beginning of a build, not as a retrofit.
Security is a growing concern among homeowners, and one of the best ways to incorporate a safe room into your home is to plan for it at the beginning of a build, not as a retrofit.
Whether you’re a general contractor or architect, or a homeowner with a construction project in the works or on the horizon, no doubt you’re alarmed by the wild escalation of material costs in 2021. Here are some of the things that we do to cope with the crazy roller coaster pricing ride.
Acoustics is an often-misunderstood discipline because it isn’t just one thing; proper acoustic architectural design involves sound isolation, noise abatement, reverberation damping, acoustic enhancement, and more. These are up-front considertions. It’s much more cost effective to proactively design residences for excellent acoustical performance than to renovate conditions when problems become apparent after construction.
Large public movie houses packed with shoulder-to-shoulder moviegoers may be a permanent thing of the past. But thanks to advances in technology and design, you can have a real movie theater inside your home.
Going out to the movies is looking like it might become a permanent thing of the past. Luckily, technology has advanced enough that an in-home immersive movie theater is within reach of many. If you’re considering building a home cinema, consider these six important points first:
The Wall Street Journal published an article recently about the steadily growing appearance in luxury homes of private screening rooms, and predicted that the trend might accelerate after homeowners emerge from movie-watching marathons during their confinement due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The windows between theater and digital streaming release dates are being cut dramatically, or are altogether disappearing. This is huge for the consumer, who not only must view movies at home these days because of COVID19, but might well make in -home viewing their preferred choice.
