Nowadays due to the shift in work culture, people have set up office areas separately in their homes to accelerate work fruitfully. Similarly, you can opt for setting up an entertainment centre in your home which would consist of movies, music, watching a game, and playing with friends. It's a great way to relax at home and enjoy life without stepping out of the comfort of your home.
You can have gatherings in your place with your friends, and dear ones and have fun with the entertainment centre. Once you set up the entertainment centre you would need to maintain it with great care. This blog will feed you with tips that would help you to optimise the performance, organise the mess of the chord, and much more.
Set Up Tips
Careful planning of setting up the entertainment centre would let you enjoy the most of it.
Start with planning the furniture placement
Planning the placement of the elements of the entertainment centre would be the prior requirement before jumping into further planning. Considering your seating position you would need to set up the placement of the elements on the desired type of cabinet be it built-in, wall unit, or shelves. Make sure you have enough power installed before setting up the entertainment centre.Controlling cables
With the setup of such an entertainment centre, it's obvious that there would be a multitude of cables which you need to handle properly for the smooth functioning of the elements. Clips can rescue you from this mess as they will help to keep the cables in place.
Many cables are connected to the television leading to electronic devices such as gaming consoles, subwoofers, and speakers. At times it will be difficult to segregate the wires corresponding to the device, to avoid this confusion you can use colour-coded sleeves or labelled zip ties to identify the corresponding cables.Surge Protectors
In addition to fitting RCD to the residential switchboard, make sure that the devices are connected to surge protectors to ensure the protection of your equipment.Careful of heat output
If you have positioned your entertainment equipment enclosed in a shelf or cupboard, then make sure you leave enough space for heat emission otherwise it can lead to catastrophe initiating fire hazard.
This is because electronic devices generate heat after use for a few hours and if there are other electronic devices placed nearby then the heat will gain the potential to initiate fire leading to an unwanted massacre.Avoid overloading circuits
Avoid connecting all the equipment with one outlet. An installed circuit will be beneficial for preventing the overload, but if it is not possible to install a separate circuit then make sure you are dispersing the power drawn evenly across the outlets to forbid any short circuit or tripping of the circuit as this can cause serious injury to one.
Steps to improve your entertainment centre
Now as you have set up the long-awaited entertainment centre it is important to organise your pieces of equipment in such a way that every piece of equipment gets equal sight attention and it doesn't feel like any single piece of equipment is stealing the thunder of others. Below mentioned are some tips which you can use to organise your entertainment centre.
- Instead of putting the TV in the centre of the room in a wall-mounted position you can place chairs on both sides of the TV in such a way that they look away from the TV and become a part of the living room.
- This way the entertainment centre doesn't steal the thunder of other areas in the room and yet manages to look beautiful. TV wall mounts also look beautiful but it overpowers the room and is a very common kind of organisation.
- If you possess a small living room but want to create the illusion of making it look bigger while setting up your entertainment centre. You can easily do so by minimising things from your entertainment centre shelves and open-styled cabinets which will give a slight impression of a walkway.
- This in combination with the arrangement of recliners and sofas in a straight line will give you a combo of natural-looking entertainment centres.
Having an entertainment centre in your house can be exciting. It helps you to release your stress along with making good memories with your family or dear ones. On weekends even if you do not feel like going out you can enjoy it while sitting at home. It is always better to do the set with the help of a professional electrician because of the wiring part to ensure security and safety.
