Cinema - Fully Lit
The main Cinema in the house when fully lit. Screens hidden away, ready to be selelcted in either Plasma or Projection Mode.
Cinema - Plasma
A 60" Plasma appears from behind a panel on the central cabinet for everday TV viewing.
Cinema - Projection
a 9 foot wide projection screen drops from the ceiling as the Plasma is stowed back away behind the Walnut panel. The screen is acoustically transparent, so the centre speaker it hides still can be heard perfectly.
Cinema - Showtime
The lights dim ready for the screen to drop from the ceiling, hidden behind an electrically operated trap door.
Decking Stairs
Stairs leading to the decking outside the Pavillion. Speakers set into the decking around the hot tub, and also on the soffits provide background music to set the mood.
Equipment Racks
All the equipment is hidden out of the way in 19" equipment racks.
Equipment Racks - Hidden
These equipment racks can be hidden away in cupboards, and will slide out when service or alteration is required.
Family Room
For day to day TV viewing the family room has a discrete home cinema system with in ceiling front and rear speakers.
Family Room Centre Speaker
The centre speaker is set into the wooden cabinetry directly below hte TV
Family Room TV
The Pioneer Plasma set into the cabinet, a small gap around the Plasma allows sufficient airflow to prevent overheating.
Guest Bedroom TVs
Each of the guest bedrooms televisions are set into walnut lined niches and connect to their own sky boxes, hidden away in the central racks.
Guest En-Suite TV
Another aquavision TV set into the wall cleverly mimics the shape of the widow onto the cliff face outside.
Gymnasium TV
A 26" Loewe TV appears to float in front of the curtains thanks to a Future Automation TV bracket. The AMX 5" touchpanel set flush into the wall offers complete control of the TV, including Sky and CCTV control.
Heating Temperature Sensor
Each room has these custom made temerature sensors set into the walls. The surround perfectly matches the mains sockets throughout. These sensors feed the precise temperature back to the AMX system, which can then call for heat from the underfloor heating system, or cooling from the airconditioning, to adjust the room temperature perfectly. Similar to a cars climate control system.
Kitchen TV and Speakers
A Loewe TV is built into the kitchen cabinets. The TV sound is played through the in-ceiling loudspeakers.
Lutron Keypad
Lighting keypads throughout allow selelction of lighting scenes.
Master Bedroom TV
A 42" TV is located in a cabinet at the foot of the bed. This rises out of the cabinet on an electric lift when required. Once out of the cabinet the TC can be rotated through 180 degrees to face the sofa.
Master Bedroom TV - Sofa View
Here the TV has come out of the cabinet and been rotated through 180 degrees so it cam been seen from the sofa.
Master Bedroom TV Lift
The TV slips quietly back into the cabinet at the foot of the bed when it is turned off. And a wooden flap glides into place to fill the gap in the top of the cabinet.
Master En-Suite TV
An Aquavision TV set into the wall for those long baths. This TV can show any of the three Sky boxes in the house, DVD oir Bluray.
Pavillion Decking
Discrete external lighting is used to give a dramatic effert to this decking and hot-tub.
Pavillion Entertainment Lounge
A relaxing getaway or a party room. Loewe TV set into the wall is controlled from an AMX MVP8400 touchscreen.
Pavillion Entertainment Lounge TV
The Loewe TV sits flush into the wall.
Pavillion Outside
The entrance to the Pavillion entertainment lounge. You can just see the PIR detectors above the left coach light. These operate the automatic outside lighting, and can steer the CCTV cameras around to film anything moving.
Projector and Lift
The Meridian MF1 projector drops from the ceiling when required. All automated from the AMX system.
Security - Baby Monitor
The client asked what we could advise so they could monitor their new born. We came up with this, an infra red camera can show a picture onto any of the AMX touchpanels.
Security - Baby Monitor Camera
The IR camera in the baby's room offers detailed images even in complete darkness.
Security - CCTV Recorder
A Dedicated Micros DS2 records the 9 cameras situated around the property. Automatically sending the signals to a remote monitoring station should the owners be away. Once alerted the remote monitoring station can talk to any unwanted visitors on site, and ask them to leave before the police are called!
Study TV
The Pioneer 50" Plasma is set with a flush wooden framed surround. Ventillation is in place to prevent the Plasma from overheating.
Touchscreen - Heating For Each Room
A compreshensive AMX page for each rooms heating control.
Touchscreen - Heating Overview
Simple overview of a sophisticated system, this AMX page shows how the required temperature can be selelcted in all rooms, and gives information as to whether these rooms are being heated or cooled.
Touchscreen - Lighting Control
AMX touchpanels are located throughout the home enabling control of all the systems. Here is a wireless portable Modero MVP8400 on its lighting page.
14 - Quarry House
Overview:
A property built in two stages, on two different levels, one on top of, and one in, a Quarry!
Brief:
We were first approached by the Design Company to install a lighting control system and multiroom audio system in the entertainment pavillion on top of the quarry.
The family would then live in this pavillion while the main house was built 100 feet down the clifface below!
Although the client didn't originally consider a full Smart Home solution throughout the development, once they had experienced the system in the Pavillion the same system was required in the main house.
The two systems run seemlessley as though they were in a single property, a single satellite dish mounted out of sight on the back of the garage runs Sky HD boxes in the Pavillion and Main House at the end of 300metres of cabling, with no signal loss.
A box located in one building can be viewed and controlled from the other property using tha AMX touchscreen controllers.
Design:
Involved right from the design stage we worked primarily with the Design Company to incorporate all aspects of the entertainment Pavillion, including comprehensive control of the Lighting and Electric Curtains.
Installation:
We carried out all the first fix, final installation and comissioning of the distributed audio and video system, and liased with the main Electrical Contractors on the Lutron installation and its interfacing to the AMX control systems.
Growth:
After the initial build the entire development was landscaped and we were required to desig a simpathetic external lighting system which made a feature of the distinctive quarryside.
PIR detectors were built into the driveway lighting bollards to automate the lighting as you approach the property.
After Sales:
We have in place a simple service contract, so that on six monthly visits we can ensure the system is always working to its maximum potential, and that all the systems firmware is current and running optimally.
Simple changes requested by the client for lighting scenes can be undertaken remotely from our offices over the remote VPN system.