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Planning a home cinema or smarthome makeover? Get inspiration from the CEDIA 2010 awards...
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Best Integrated Home under £100,000
Winner – Prestige Audio – The White House This stunning-looking home impressed the judges with its integration of AV, lighting, and security. The Crestron touch-panel built into the leather-clad pillar controls all zones inside and out; a projector and screen cover the cinema options. Colour-change lighting and an inside waterfall can alter the ambience instantly.
he Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association – CEDIA to the less verbose – is the international trade organization for the home electronic systems industry. Its annual awards ceremony brings together the finest examples of home installations from the UK and abroad – from the most extravagantly opulent to the kind of fiendishly clever and cost-effective installs more suited to the budgets of the rest of us. This year, HCC’s editor-in-chief Steve May added lustre to the judging panel at the London event covering Region 1. Not to be confused with DVD regions, R1 covers all of Europe, Africa, and much of Asia, too. But it’s a home celebration for the Brits who have swept the trophy board.
cedia awards 3 Best Dressed Kit Racks
These two finalists show just how serious AV racks can be. Hometech Integration (top) custom-built this three-rack system that incorporates over 1,000m of cabling, while Sensory International (bottom) was responsible for this complex spaghetti junction that controls multiroom audio and video
Best Home Cinema under £40,000
Winner – Fab Audio Visual – Subterranean The judges described this as a ‘well considered and technically outstanding home cinema installation.’ The setup includes three Genelec active in-wall speakers behind a 110in Screen Excellence acoustically-transparent screen. Two similar speakers and an active sub complete the audio mix.
Best Home Cinema under £40,000
Finalist – Projecting and Sounding ART – La Vie en Rose The owner of this hi-tech but retro-styled room is a passionate movie fan, yet wanted the home cinema audio to stay behind closed doors. A comprehensive projector-led AV system took care of the first job, while layers of galvanised lead and recycled rubber form an acoustic baffle to keep the neighbours happy
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Final Cut The winners of the CEDIA 2010 awards... Best Media Room under £15,000
Olive AV, Kensington Apartment, United Kingdom
Best Media Room over £15,000 Winner: MR Domotica, Rural Media, Netherlands
Best Home Cinema under £40,000 Winner: FAB AV, Subterranean, United Kingdom
Best Home Cinema £40,000 – £100,000
Winner: FAB AV, The Grey Room, United Kingdom
Best Home Cinema over £100,000 Winner: FAB AV, Gentleman’s Club, UK
Best Integrated Home under £100,000 Winner: Prestige Audio, The White House, UK
Best Integrated Home £100,000 – £250,000 Winner: Prestige Audio, St Pancras Penthouse, UK
Best Integrated Home over £250,000 Winner: Censys Residential Control, Kasteel Domein Amerloo, Netherlands
Best Innovative Solution – Residential
In-ceiling subwoofer! Winner: T&T Automation, West London Gated Community, UK
Best Multi-dwelling Winner: Finite Solutions, Greenhouse, UK
Best Marine
Winner: Sensory International, Slipstream, UK
Best Dressed Rack
Winner: T&T Automation, West London Family Mansion, UK
Best Integrated Home over £250,000
Highly Commended – Smart Home – Buckinghamshire Luxury Home It took eight years to complete this project in a 17th Century Grade 1 listed property. Contrasting somewhat with the ornate interior is this 103in plasma TV – one of the property’s 36 screens!
Best Home Cinema over £100,000
Finalist – SMC – Cotswold Screening Room Installed in a Victorian garage, the well-connected owner of this room claims to have ‘a cinema of choice for some of the world’s most exacting filmmakers’. Oh, to be a fly on the wall.
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Best Media Room over £15,000
Finalist – Sensory International – Cheshire Media Lounge Sensory International’s brief was to create a room where all the family could hang out and enjoy media from Sky+HD, DVD, Xbox and Wii, let alone the non-digital pool tables. Lighting accommodated both, while the video is handled by a 50in Pioneer plasma (remember them?), 100in projection screen, and SIM2 Domino projector
Best Innovative Solution
Finalist – Grahams Hi-Fi – Where did the PJ go? A 5m-high ceiling necessitated this elaborate projector-in-a-cupboard solution
Best Innovative Solution
Finalist – The Pleasure Home – Smart Wall AV The sports-loving owner of this install can watch three events at once thanks to this Smart Wall, and stroke the (optional) dog
Best Home Cinema £40,000 – £100,000
Finalist – Dark Side of the Room – Dream Come True Built for a discerning musician, this room was configured for seven-channel surround sound and boasts two subs alongside its 3m screen and THX-certified projector. Amongst the eclectic hardware are players for Laserdisc, MiniDisc and VHS tape