With fewer social plans lately, people are getting good use out of their Netflix and Hulu accounts. If you have a home theater, you’re lucky to have an escape into exciting new worlds, whether you’re revisiting Lord of the Rings or starting Downton Abbey for the first time.

As you spend more days at home in San Marino, CA, now is an excellent time to upgrade your home theater installation. Not only can you improve the viewing experience, but you can also use the space for other reasons, like working from home. How? We’ll share below.

If you’re really into watching movies or TV shows with the absolute best audio and visuals possible, it’s easy to see why you might want a room in your home designed expressly for that purpose. And make no mistake, a dedicated home theater space can bring your favorite media to life in spectacular, jaw-dropping fashion. But watching movies or TV in this way is inherently an isolated, limiting experience. Sure, your family or friends may be with you, but because a space like that is solely focused on one type of experience, its functionality only goes so far.

By contrast, a multi-purpose space like your family room or a general media room gives you more ways to enjoy the movies, TV and music that you love. It’s also a more open, friendly environment. Family and friends can mingle more freely, move between the media room and other areas of the home like your kitchen or outdoor space, and you get a more generally social, lively experience. You don’t have to skimp on the visuals and audio, however; we’ll show you how you can bring all the technical wizardry of a home theater installation to other areas of your South Pasadena, CA home.