Enhancing Your Poolside
EXPERIENCE BY MARCUS PACKER Photos: Peridon Entertainment
Americans spend 87% of their time indoors and want a premium entertainment experience in their backyards.
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hen looking at the most elegantly appointed backyards, sound and video definitely create a premium poolside experience
Given how much time we spend inside our homes, it makes sense that in order to feel a certain level of comfort we want to bring elements from inside the home into our outdoor living space. Sound and video play a huge role in the outdoor living environment. It certainly explains why digital home entertainment industry represents a $30 billion dollar industry in the U.S. alone. That’s roughly 12 times what we spent only a decade ago. Consequently, two things are for certain; for one the market for home audio & video has grown. Secondly, a good portion of that growth has been seen coming
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directly from the outdoor living sector. As we have grown our appetite for all things digital, our capacity for being without certain creature comforts has diminished over the last decade. In our parent’s era, we were content with bringing a transistor radio into the backyard to catch the ballgame poolside. These days, you’re likely to find a fully equipped outdoor pavilion with a complete entertainment area in high-end custom backyards. To get a better understanding of what a vital role entertainment plays in the backyard, we spoke with Keith Perry, a leading installer of outdoor audio & video. His firm, Peridon Entertainment, is one of the leading AV consultants in Houston as well as frequent collaborators with pool builders throughout the entire state of Texas.
