Hi i'm Richard from UK Home Cinemas and
I'm here to introduce you to the latest
in our series of time-lapse videos where
you get to see the transformation of an
ordinary room into a luxurious home
cinema.
The setting for this project is this beautiful villa in the South of France
And that in itself made this a bigger challenge for us as it's about a thousand miles from Berkshire in the UK
where we're based. So sneak preview time,
this is how the room looked when we  started -
And this is how it looked when we had finished.
So This is the room. It's always been intended to be a cinema
But its never been made into one.
It's just got this raised section of floor for the seating and so on
and it's got the recesses which are ideal for putting the star ceiling in.
And steps at the sides, and this is a space to fit a three seater in
and a four seater here, so what we are going to do is ,
we have made all sorts of stuff, like for example laser cut gold columns and
we've made panels the right size for all the walls and we have come up with a scheme to fit it all.
and now we are going to get going.
So here we go with the time lapse and time to tell you some more background on this project
you can see that the ceiling was already
shaped but it was in need of some repair
so that was one of the first tasks
filling sanding and painting the ceiling
to get it back to a reasonable shape, we also had to move the hatch which provides
access to an existing air conditioning
unit above the ceiling as one of our
columns needed to go where the hatch was
positioned and it would have prevented
the hatch from being opened. The scheme which we had designed
uses a series of wall batters to provide
the structure to support the other items
which we were using to line the room, so
we're straight into measuring marking up
and fixing the wooden battens onto the
wall in the exact positions as per our
design drawings. Our clients had a major
input on the decor, as they had a
vision to create something unashamedly
opulent and reminiscent of older
commercial cinemas which they had
visited as children, but they also wanted
it to look fresh and new and high-tech.
They were positive and supportive
throughout the project and an absolute
joy to work with. Over several months we
had a series of phone conversations
discussing many aspects of the design
and exchanging drawings and sketches etc.
I visited the villa to carefully measure
all aspects of the room then everything
was drawn up using CAD design software
we came up with a scheme involving
fabric covered panels installed in a way
which would be forgiving in case there
are any small errors in my measurements
once our clients had approved the design
we arranged for lots of stuff to be made
in advance. That was the fabric
panels eight timber frames to go inside
columns on the walls and laser-cut
panels which we had professionally
spray-painted to form the faces of the
columns. The decor throughout the villa is
understated and tasteful, but for the
cinema room our clients wanted to go for
something pretty over-the-top and
completely bespoke in a 1920s Art Deco
style, but at the same time a modern 4k
Dolby Atmos specification. Although the
budget was sufficient we wanted to
maximize what we could achieve without
exceeding the budget. In particular we
wanted to achieve great room acoustics
but we didn't want to have off-the-shelf
acoustic panels visible which might have
detracted from the overall style of the
room. For this reason we planned to add
acoustic absorption material such as
rockwool inside all of the fabric
covered panels which we were having made
but we didn't want the room to be
totally dead. The design with removable
panels enable us to easily add or remove
rockwool and other less absorptive
materials, to get differing amounts of
acoustic absorption until we achieved
the right result. We also wanted to use
acoustic diffusion and bass traps, but
all had to be unseen and inexpensive, so we
used thick pieces of rock wall in the
front corners of the room to function as
bass traps, and those are hidden behind the screen
of course and behind the equipment.
We fitted inexpensive acoustic diffusion
panels inside all of the wall columns,
behind acoustically transparent cloth.
The screen is acoustically transparent with a 2.35 to 1 aspect ratio
The speaker layout is a seven-point two point two Dolby Atmos configuration and we also
catered for the possibility of adding
another pair of side surround speakers
in the future,
so in two of the columns have as-yet
unused speaker housings built into them
for possible future use.
There are some compromises which had to be made on
speaker positioning as our clients quite
reasonably didn't want the speaker's to
be visible but did want the columns
which house them, to be equally spaced for aesthetic reasons.
The speakers are Dali opticon and Dali phantom and we used SVS subwoofers.
The black fabric prevents stray light
from illuminating the speakers and thus
removes the risk of occasionally being
able to see what's behind the screen
we used a control4 system to make
everything user-friendly
Including control of the room lighting. Here I am
fitting the touchscreen and other
control panels and lighting dimmer etc.
As with most of our room transformation
projects we installed a fiber optic star
ceiling. In this case two areas of star
ceiling using custom sized panels. We
also wanted to achieve a halo lighting
effect around the edges of the star
ceiling panels and for these areas we
were keen that the LED strips could be
set to different colours so used RGBW LED strips.
we also fitted LED strips into the wall
columns but these were warm white ones to
match the main room lighting
we installed art deco-style wall sconces
which we sprayed gold to match the
columns. Again this was great design
input from our clients, the idea of
spraying them gold initially seemed a bit
crazy to us, until we saw the final
results and then we had to concede that
our clients design vision was spot-on.
Yes it's extreme, but that's what we were
all aiming for!
The projector is a JVC DLA-N5, Which has the ability to store and recall settings for zoom focus and lens
shift, to cater for different aspect
ratios.  The width of the image will of
course be set correctly for each aspect
ratio but the height will always be the
same height as the screen
our clients were keen for everything to
look built in and so he made subwoofer
covers upholstered with speaker cloth
finished with laser-cut panels we used
off-the-shelf cabinets but we made them
look bespoke, again by using laser-cut
panels.   Time to bring in the seats
The final icing on the cake was a set of
mouldings fixed to the ceiling to form
the illusion of ceiling panels.
We always
get asked how much these things cost.
I don't want to comment on the exact price of this project but generally a
reasonable budget for a room
transformation project similar to this
would be somewhere in the region of
65,000 UK pounds or the equivalent of
about 85 thousand US dollars
finally after all of those weeks of work
time to enjoy the finished cinema room.
And of-course the very long drive home.
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