Can you really call it a home theater when the theater setup, including 7.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound and a 300-inch projection screen, are technically sitting in your backyard? Wouldn’t that make it an outside-the-home theater? I guess it’s just quibbling over semantics, because no matter what you call it, being able to watch movies while floating lazily in your swimming pool with nature as your backdrop is pretty spectacular.

I’d probably sell a kidney if it meant I could afford a pool and a home theater system, but combining the two into one zone of pure tactile and sensory pleasure not seen since the days of Ancient Rome? The Hawaiian backdrop theater system mocks the very heights of Olympus with its perfected opulence! The home theater setup in the first picture, due to its weather sensors and safeguards, might actually be smarter than any person trying to use it. I know it has got me beat!

If I ever won the lottery or stumbled into some way to make a vast fortune, I now know what I’d have built into my vast mansion in the Florida Keys. Until then, I’m more than willing to settle for a flat-panel television hanging by the bathtub. It’s not the same as a home theater system by the pool, but it’s not too shabby on its own! Now if only I could upgrade the tub into a Jacuzzi… hmm. That’s something else to add to my dream home requirements list.

This is why I try not to watch shows like MTV’s Cribs and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. All those shows do is give me ideas for my own house that I could never possibly afford. It’s worse than window-shopping!

Tags: home theater, home design, innovations, unusual home ideas, great ideas

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