Modern Home Cinema Room — Cheshire

A Modern Home Cinema Room for a Cheshire Home

This home cinema design for a client in Cheshire provides a fully immersive experience. The 6m x 7m room is part of a new home entertainment complex featuring garaging, a pool, gym, extensive terraced seating and this cinema room. In addition to the cinema, Custom Controls provided audio video throughout the complex — four displays and three additional stereo audio zones, all with access to the same sources as the cinema room.

The Cinema Design

The client gave us complete free rein with a single brief: as good as possible for the budget, with a real wow factor. The lighting design delivers exactly that. Small LED up-and-down wall lights at varying heights create pools of light, front curtains are highlighted by spotlights and each chair has its own dedicated light. The room uses a single colour palette — Little Greene Dark Lead throughout in a matt finish. With no natural light and this colour, when the lights dim the cinematic experience takes centre stage completely. Lighting is split into functional groups, with the curtain spotlights, front row and rear row each independently controllable. Lighting automatically dims when a film starts and raises when it pauses or stops.

The Cinema Seating

The seating is Cineak Fortuny in dark grey leather — fully motorised for backrest, headrest and footrest adjustment, with in-arm cupholders for extended viewing sessions. When the room is switched off, all seats automatically return to their home position, keeping the cinema looking its best.

Our Home Cinema Services

Design

Calibration

Treatments

Seating

Theatres

Cinema Ideas

Finishing Touches and Room Construction

Before construction started, we virtually built the room in our modelling software to ensure the best possible acoustic response for the Krix and Trinnov audio solution. After designing the speaker layout we added acoustic treatments in the optimal positions, then covered all treatments and speakers in fabric matched to the Little Greene paint. Carpets and rug were chosen for acoustic properties as much as appearance. The rear row of seating is elevated on a 300mm step ensuring clear sightlines from the second row even when the front row is occupied.

Part of Something Bigger

This Cheshire cinema room is one element of a larger home entertainment complex — garaging, pool, gym, extensive terraced seating and the cinema room, all with integrated audio video from Custom Controls. Four displays and three additional stereo audio zones across the complex share sources with the cinema room via a Crestron distribution backbone. A film playing in the cinema can be paused and continued on a poolside display. Music from the source server can follow the client from gym to cinema to terrace without interruption.

For Cheshire clients planning a new build or major renovation that includes multiple entertainment spaces, this project is the reference for how those spaces should be integrated from the outset rather than added piecemeal.

Project Details

• Location: Prestbury, Cheshire
• Room dimensions: 6m x 7m
• Total displays: 4 (cinema + 3 additional zones)
• Audio: Krix speakers — Trinnov processing
• Lighting: Dedicated lighting control system — Little Greene Dark Lead palette
• Seating: Cineak Fortuny dark grey leather, motorised

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