Home Entertainment Steps
STEP ONE: DESIGN FOR THE FUTURE
It is important to “FUTURE-PROOF” entertainment center cabinets, by designing them to accommodate future needs as well as your immediate ones. Here, our vast experience comes into play. Our designs achieve this goal by (a) allowing room for expansion; (b) providing for future additions; and (c) providing for future conversion. Remember that your furniture (if built to MapleTree standards) will last for generations, while audio-video technology is rapidly changing. Let’s make sure that your great grandchildren praise you for looking ahead! Here are four examples of “future-proofing” parameters that we consider in designing entertainment centers:
A. Plan to accommodate larger televisions in the future, allowing room to grow (Santilli).
B. Plan to accommodate different types of televisions. Our cabinets can convert from floor-based big-screen televisions to table top televisions, plasma televisions and LCD televisions. (Santilli)
C. We can hide the expansion space (around the television) with an attractive snap-on removable wooden frame that you can remove or replace when you buy a larger television. Our customers call us when they get larger televisions, and we fabricate a new, thinner frame to suit. (Druggs)
D. Even if you do not have “surround-sound” now, we can design your cabinet so that you can later accommodate a subwoofer, center channel, left channel and right channel. This can be done either by providing space in the cabinet or by designing the cabinet for future additions.
E. Whenever possible, we make provisions for future additional components and games.
F. We recommend designing entertainment centers for future different functionalities (in whole or in part), such as storage armoires, wine-serving centers, and curio cabinets, to give you maximum flexibility and to make your investment as sound as possible.
Remember that MapleTree’s furniture will last for centuries and, in the future, you (or your heirs) don’t want to be saddled with a piece of furniture that only fits antiquated equipment.