Home Cinema Design: Hampstead Home Cinema Room

A Very High End Home Cinema For a Beautiful Home in Hampstead

This stunning Home Cinema Room design is for a client with a home just south of the Heath in Hampstead, London. The room is part of a fuller Crestron Home Entertainment system, benefiting from easy iPad control and Crestron lighting control to create the perfect cinema environment.

The Client Brief

The client wanted a cinema room which would fit into the interior design of the rest of the home — classy and understated rather than contemporary. We took our design cues from the rest of the house, installing a dado rail around the perimeter and utilising different fabric choices above and below the rail. Fabric curtains on the screen wall add a sense of theatre whilst also improving acoustics. Although the client wanted a classical feel, he also wanted the best possible audio video experience — this room has nine surround sound speakers, two subwoofers and four ceiling speakers providing Dolby Atmos height channels. All guaranteed to provide a very immersive experience when coupled with the 4m projector screen.

The Cinema Seating

Cinema seating is absolutely crucial to delivering a system which delights clients. For this room we selected the Cineak Fortuny range — three double sofas on the front row and four individual seats on the rear row. All seats are motorised with independent footrests and headrests, allowing any client to find a comfortable position. Drinks holders ensure clients can enjoy a beverage throughout the film.

Our Home Cinema Services

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Seating

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Cinema Ideas

The Visuals

The 4m Screen Excellence projector screen is acoustically transparent, allowing us to install the front channels and subwoofers in a void behind it. A Sony 4K laser projector provides the image — delivering brightness and contrast on a par with the finest flat screen TVs, at a scale that makes the difference between watching a film and being inside one. The laser light source eliminates lamp replacement costs and maintains consistent brightness across its 20,000-hour rated life.

The Cinema Room Construction

The whole room is fitted with stud walls which allow us to hide speakers and acoustic treatments out of sight whilst providing a clean aesthetic. The stud work is then overlaid with fabric — patterned below the dado rail, plain above. A thick velvet carpet and sound-deadening underlay ensure minimal sound leakage to the rest of the home. A stunning fibre optic ceiling provides a real wow factor: with the Crestron lighting system dimming all circuits except the fibre optic field, the ceiling becomes a night sky — an effect that is both technically impressive and genuinely atmospheric.

Hampstead — Discreet by Design

Hampstead is among the most architecturally sensitive areas in London — period properties with original features, conservation area restrictions and interiors where technology must earn its place rather than dominate. This installation reflects those priorities precisely. The dado rail, the patterned fabric below and plain fabric above, the theatrical curtains on the screen wall — every finish decision was made to place this room within the classical tradition of the house rather than announce it as a technology installation.

And yet the specification beneath the classical surface is uncompromising. Nine surround sound speakers, two subwoofers and four Dolby Atmos height channels. A 4m Screen Excellence acoustically transparent screen. A Sony 4K laser projector. Ten Cineak Fortuny seats — three double sofas on the front row, four individual motorised recliners on the rear — all with independent headrest and footrest control.

For London clients in Hampstead, Highgate, Primrose Hill and the wider NW3 area who want a cinema room that works within a period interior rather than disrupting it, this project is our clearest reference point.

Project Details

• Location: Hampstead, London
• Screen width: 4m (Screen Excellence, acoustically transparent)
• Projection: Sony 4K laser projector
• Audio: 9.2.4 surround sound — Artcoustic speakers
• Seating: 10 — Cineak Fortuny (3 double sofas + 4 individual motorised recliners)
• Lighting: Crestron with fibre optic ceiling
• Control: Crestron iPad control
• Treatment: Full fabric stud walls, dado rail detail, velvet carpet

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