Enjoy Outdoor Home Audio Video, Motorized Shades and More 

The summer months bring with them a chance to spend time with family and friends and replenish the body and soul. For many, that means going on long vacations to all-inclusive resorts in exotic locales. But what if you could create the ultimate staycation environment in the comfort of your home?

We’ve written in the past about how to leverage climate control and security during the summer months, but there’s so much more you can do to prepare your Lafayette, LA, home. In this blog, we focus mainly on outdoor spaces because what is summer without a little bit of sunshine? Explore our top tips below, from outdoor home audio video solutions to motorized shades. 

Enjoy Easy Access to High-Quality Audio in Every Corner of Your Home

In the 1970s, audiophiles would sit in front of their record players for hours-long listening sessions. Then, in the 1980s came the cassette tape with greater portability, easy fast forward and rewind functions and the ability to create custom mix tapes.

The 1990s brought the CD players, which let audiophiles easily pick out tracks, shuffle, and repeat songs. Then the turn of the millennium saw downloadable MP3s that let music lovers bypass albums and pick out their favorite singles. Finally, in the last decade and a half, there's been a new player in music reproduction—streaming which provides access to massive music libraries in increasingly high-quality formats.

Over the years, our whole home audio solutions have helped clients adapt to the ever-changing world of music and this time is no different. Below are some of the ways we help our clients embrace streaming in their Tampa, FL homes.

How Premium Audio Products Change the Way You Listen to Music

Take your music-listening experience to a whole new level. From upgrading to world-class speakers to enjoying easy access to your favorite music recordings throughout your entire home, there are many ways to make music a better part of your life. Installing high-end audio in your New Orleans, LA, home is the place to start.

Listen to your favorite music as the original artists envisioned through premium speakers that never disappoint. You’ll enjoy a listening experience that mimics the quality you’d expect at the recording studio itself. Read our blog below to discover four ways to integrate high-end audio into your life.

Hear Music Anywhere In Your Mandeville Home

Modern technology is built on the idea of creating maximum convenience for the end user. We can access entire libraries of information by pushing a few buttons on the tiny computers in our pockets. We carry music around with us at all times, listening to it on wireless headphones and speakers that can fit inside of a small bag. Homes have refrigerators that monitor the amounts of regularly used items and let you replenish your stock from a touchscreen in the door.

The convenience factor of smart home technology is a big reason why it’s grown in popularity so much over the past decade, and multi-room audio is consistently one of the most in-demand services from our Mandeville clients. Keep reading to learn how a whole home sound system expands the range of your media, provides simple control, and blends in seamlessly with your décor.

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Hear High-Performance Audio Anywhere In Your Home

The main convenience of multi-room audio is right there in the name: you’ll be able to listen to your music anywhere in your home, inside or outside, thanks to a network of speakers united by a smart home control system. The holidays are right around the corner, and a multi-room audio system makes entertaining easier by giving you control of the music all around your house from your smart device.

Our brand partner, Control4, offers an exceptional multi-room audio system. It runs a variety of streaming platforms, including Deezer, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Napster, Spotify, TIDAL, and Tunein.

How to Use Your Smart Home to Create a Family Environment

There are many reasons you may want to invest in smart home automation, such as saving time and energy. Or perhaps you have a proclivity for technology and enjoy using the latest smart home gadgets. However, did you know that a smart home can help you raise a family and manage a hectic schedule? Whether you have a house full of teens or are nursing a newborn, our automation services can create the right environment for your family in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Continue reading to learn more.

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Create the Right Environment for Newborns

You’ve finally put the baby to sleep and want to remember exactly what calmed them down. Use your smart home system to save the settings for the next evening. Pick the lighting levels, shade selection, music, and temperature using the touch interface on an iPad or in-wall touch screen. You can even label the scene, like “Goodnight Sweetheart,” so you can easily recall it at a moment’s notice. Hit one button and the nursery will instantly transform into a cozy and comforting environment – perfect for putting your baby to sleep and allowing you to get some much-needed sleep.

Wake up the Whole Family Automatically

Keep an Eye on Every Family Member

Smart home automation can make your daily life simple, and we know for parents there’s nothing more important than keeping your kids safe and having family fun too. Contact us and we’ll customize your smart home to meet the needs of your growing family.

How to Enjoy Smart Home Automation in Your Covington, LA Home

Enjoy Premium Audiovisuals in Your Lafayette, LA Home
Just 20 years ago, all we had was cable TV – and there weren’t over 500 channels. Now we have streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, digital movie servers and rental platforms, and more. The music world has also expanded and evolved; you don’t have to buy CDs anymore to hear the newest songs. You can stream them using free platforms like Spotify and Pandora, or subscribe to hi-fi music platforms such as Tidal and Deezer. With so many sources of audio and video content, how do you stay organized? That’s where our team comes in. Acadian Home Theater & Automation can help you organize all of those sources in your Lafayette, Louisiana home, keep messy cords hidden, and streamline your controls into one easy-to-use solution. Keep reading to discover the benefits of a whole house audio/video system.



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1. Maintain the Beauty of Your Home

If you have TVs in every room of your home, the entertainment stations are bound to get messy. Blu-ray players, soundbars, video game consoles and more clutter up the room and can be an eyesore. To create a beautiful interior design, you need a professional to intricately hide all of the equipment. We can install the speakers in the walls and ceilings, even make them completely invisible; encase the TV in a piece of stylish furniture or install a motorized lift in the ceiling; and keep all of the additional equipment in a closet. With our expert wiring and programming, we can place all of the hardware in a hidden location, and then all you need is a tablet, touch pad or phone to change the channels.

2. Simplify Your Controls

Smart home automation is all about uniting different technologies so that you can easily control them with one solution. We have smart remotes that can not only access all of your sources and channels, but can control the lights, shades, and even the intercom system. Or, you can simply place a tablet on the coffee table and open an app to set your scene for a movie or video game session.

With a whole house music system, you can unite all of your music – including your iTunes, personal CD collections, and Internet sources – then easily play any song you want. Beautiful album cover art displays as the song plays. You can create playlists and then marry them with other actions, like dimming the lights, to create scenes. Choose a name, like, “Sunday Funday” and then recall the same playlist whenever you like. You’ll never get frustrated trying to figure out the remote; even grandma can use it. Our control systems are intuitive and simple to navigate. So you can throw away all those remotes and just use one simple control device.