Home Cinema Installation & Design

Dedicated Cinema Rooms for London, Cheshire, Dubai & the Alps

Custom Controls are a high-end home cinema design and installation company specialising in dedicated cinema rooms. We have been designing and installing home cinemas since 1998 across London, Cheshire, Surrey, Dubai and the French Alps — from an intimate four-seat room in a London apartment to the most ambitious private screening rooms we have ever delivered, including an 18-seat IMAX Enhanced theatre in Dubai.

Design

Calibration

Treatments

Seating

Theatres

Certified Home Cinema Specialists

Five-time Crestron Integration Award winners — the most consecutive wins of any dealer in EMEA and a unique recognition of cinema design and installation excellence. Crestron Dealer of Distinction status. Steinway Lyngdorf RoomPerfect Certified — advanced training in acoustic design and room correction technology. Trinnov Certified Dealers — specialist training in high-end audio processor setup and calibration. These certifications represent training, standards and technical competency that translate directly into the quality of the home cinema we design and deliver, across more than 25 years of continuous installation work in London, Cheshire, Surrey, Dubai and the French Alps.

Home Cinema Design

Every home cinema project begins with design. Room geometry, seating layout, acoustic treatment, screen size and position, loudspeaker placement, and lighting design are all determined before construction begins. We work with architects and interior designers from the earliest planning stage, producing design drawings and construction specifications that are handed to contractors and builders. For clients without an existing design team, we manage the cinema design as a standalone commission. Read our complete home cinema design guide →

Cinema Room Acoustic Treatment

Acoustic design is the foundation of a great home cinema. A room built to the wrong dimensions, with reflective surfaces and untreated room modes, will never sound right regardless of the quality of the speakers and processors installed. We design room geometry, specify acoustic materials and treatments, and supervise construction to ensure the acoustic performance matches the brief. For dedicated cinema rooms, full acoustic treatment is non-negotiable. For living room cinema systems, we design treatments that integrate with the room’s aesthetic. Read our acoustic treatment guide →

Case Study: High-End Home Cinema Room, Surrey

This purpose-built room measures six metres wide by five and a half deep — designed from first principles to make full use of every inch of it. A 3.8-metre acoustically transparent Screen Excellence screen spans the front wall, fed by a Sony 4K laser projector, with the front-stage speakers from a full Artcoustic 7.2.2 surround system hidden invisibly behind the screen itself and driven by an Anthem AVR with full room correction applied after installation.

None of it was left to chance. A full acoustic model was built before construction started, identifying exactly where treatment needed to sit to control standing waves and early reflections, and the walls and ceiling are finished in an acoustic fabric system that does its job invisibly, with no visible panels breaking up the room. Eight electric recliners across two rows complete a cinema built to be used most nights of the week, not saved for the rare special occasion. Read the full case study →

Scope and Scale

Our home cinema installations cover the same full scope regardless of size: acoustic design, construction specification, 4K or laser projection, Dolby Atmos audio, seating, Crestron and Lutron integration, and professional calibration. We have installed dedicated cinema rooms across London, Cheshire, Surrey, Dubai and the French Alps — visit our London, Cheshire, Surrey, Dubai or Alps cinema pages for local case studies and contact details. We provide free, detailed consultations and quotations for every project, tailored to your room and your brief.

A dedicated home cinema is a single-purpose, fully treated room built around film and TV alone; a media room is a multi-purpose space — often a living room or open-plan area — designed to deliver a strong cinema experience while continuing to serve everyday life. Both start the same way: we design the room first, since room geometry, acoustic treatment, speaker layout and screen position all have to be right before any equipment is specified, and we regularly work within an existing architect or interior designer’s team throughout that process. Basements, garages and existing rooms can all be converted into dedicated cinemas just as effectively as a purpose-built new space, with acoustic treatment and cabling adapted to the constraints of what’s already there. Every system is calibrated before handover — audio calibration using Trinnov Altitude, Dirac Live or Anthem ARC depending on the processor, and ISF-standard video calibration using professional measurement tools. Read more about our calibration process →