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HELTER-SKELTER HOME CINEMA Install company Luuxx created this stylish and high performance home cinema to a challenging brief and unusual room layout. Within the architecture of a 250-year-old
Luuxx’ Michael Glarvey explains, “Two years
mansion in the Lake District, Luuxx has created
ago, we got a call from the Marshalls who, with
a convertible high-performance home cinema
their children having flown the nest, thought it
environment involving folding rear and side walls.
was time to upgrade their home with decent
Working from home two days a week, a professional couple invited Yorkshire custom installation company Luuxx to integrate reliable Wi-Fi and multiroom audio within their spacious eighteen century mansion. However, this was just the start of an adventure for Luuxx and these ambitious and imaginative clients. Two years later the couple asked Luuxx to take on a new idea, which called for custom creativity beyond the conventional installation of cable infrastructure, access points and ceiling speakers. For the next phase, they wanted to be able to transform a large Georgian room into a high-performance home cinema environment at will.
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Wi-Fi access and multi-room audio. On paper the project seemed routine but once we got beneath the floors and walls, we faced a whole new ballgame. “With older houses you never know what’s waiting for you under the skin, and this one was no exception. Some ancient insulation had atrophied and become rock solid, which meant we needed four engineers to chisel out 70 metres of channel between three floors to get the cable to the APs and speakers. “We installed ten Ruckus Unleashed 510 APs supplied by distributor Habitech according to their heatmap plan, and, in parallel, eight
The space would be a games room with
zones of audio: seven of them comprising pairs
floor-to-ceiling windows, and at another
of Sonance VP62Rs in the kitchen, library, office
moment become a dedicated, acoustically
and snug, in the dining room, basement gym,
optimised cinema.
and also in the master bedroom upstairs.”
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