Private home cinema with acoustic fabric walls and low-profile seating

Home Theatre Sydney

A room built around the picture and the sound.

A dedicated cinema is the one room in the house where the technology is allowed to lead, and where planning the room properly matters more than any single product.

The idea

Room first. Equipment second.

Screen size, seating distance, riser height, speaker positions and acoustic treatment are decided on plan. Get those right and modest equipment sounds extraordinary; get them wrong and nothing rescues the room.

We also design relaxed media rooms, spaces that live as a family room by day and perform properly at night.

Planning

Sightlines, seating and scale.

We model the room before construction so joinery, structure and services all agree.

  • Screen or projection size set from the real seating distance.
  • Riser height and row spacing checked for clear sightlines.
  • Speaker and subwoofer positions resolved against the architecture.
  • Rack location, ventilation and cable routes planned with the builder.
Architectural planning drawing used for cinema room layout

Acoustics & finishes

The quiet part of a great cinema.

Isolation and treatment are what stop a cinema disturbing the rest of the house, and what stop the room ruining the mix.

  • Coordination with your architect or interior designer on fabric, panels and ceiling treatment.
  • Attention to noise paths: doors, ducts, structure and equipment location.
  • Concealed speakers behind acoustically transparent finishes where the design calls for it.
Dark acoustically treated cinema walls and concealed step lighting

Control

One press, and the room becomes a cinema.

Lighting, shading, climate, sources and display all move together, nobody should hunt through inputs in the dark.

  • Single-press Watch scenes for film, sport, gaming and music.
  • Lighting that fades as content starts and returns gently when paused.
  • Calibration of picture and sound in the finished room.
Control4 Halo Touch remote with colour touchscreen

In detail

What the work involves

  1. 01

    Dedicated cinema

    A purpose-built room with controlled light, acoustics and seating.

  2. 02

    Media rooms

    Living spaces that perform at night without looking like equipment stores.

  3. 03

    Projection & displays

    Screen or large-format display selected for the room's light and geometry.

  4. 04

    Surround audio

    Speaker layouts appropriate to the room and the way you actually watch.

  5. 05

    Comfort

    Seating, climate and lighting considered as part of the experience.

  6. 06

    Calibration

    Measured and tuned on completion, then adjusted after you live with it.

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A complimentary consultation anywhere in Sydney, new builds, renovations and inherited Control4 systems alike.

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