With spring-like temperatures and sunshine finally rolling through Missouri and St. Louis, your thoughts may be turning to preparing your outdoor areas for warm-weather fun in spring, summer, and early fall. You might have a project that you're planning, like expanding your patio, a new pool, or an outdoor kitchen. One of the best ways to make those areas an extension of your comfortable indoors is to add high-quality audio and video entertainment. With all your entertainment options right there, why come back inside?

As a home technology and outdoor AV company, Elite Technology Solutions can show you all the options for adding that extra dimension of fun to your outside spaces. Keep reading below to see how AV can put the crowning touch on your new outdoor amenities.

Read on to discover some of our favorite outdoor entertainment system options for your St. Louis home.

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A New Patio

A patio is the most popular area to add AV entertainment. You can start with sound! Outdoor speakers can pipe music for any occasion, whether it's a relaxed summer read outside or an al fresco dinner party with friends. On the patio, you can have several audio options. You can install ceiling-mounted speakers in the covered area or surface-mount speakers on patio walls. Yet another option is to embed the speakers in an adjacent landscaped area, where they might supply sound to the patio and additional areas. Sonance makes speaker models that can go in all these areas for full, clear sound.

While you’re considering sound, why not add an outdoor TV? Specific models from Séura are made for shade and partial shade areas, with weatherproof construction to withstand Missouri extremes and high brightness for a vivid picture in any outdoor light.

An Outdoor Kitchen

Outdoor kitchens are perfect for making the most of your outdoor space, whether cooking for the family or entertaining a group of friends. Install an outdoor TV to keep an eye on the game while grilling, or add a bar area and create an outdoor sports bar. Connect the TV sound to the outdoor speakers, and you can enjoy music, sports, shows, or anything else with high-quality visuals and sound.

Pools and Water Features

Water features like fountains or babbling streams add a calming effect and visual interest to backyards. You can add a musical soundtrack with landscape speakers embedded in the surrounding landscape. Stake-mounted satellite speakers paired with buried subwoofers hide discreetly while blanketing the area with even, rich sound.

Pools go well with music too. Depending on your landscape and pool style, rock speakers may be an option around a pool. Rock speakers can be paired for stereo or installed individually and are sturdily built. They may not be hard as a rock, but they are highly robust and impervious to getting wet.

Elite Technology Solutions has decades of experience with indoor and outdoor audio-video solutions. We can show you how to make the most of your outdoor spaces with audio and video entertainment systems. To learn more, call us today at (636) 939-4474 or reach out on our contact page. We look forward to working with you!