Luxury Interiors – The Intelligent Home

davidlongdesigns.blogspot.com The initial brief from the client for this large detached family home was to integrate a multi room audio system, home cinema, lighting control and a high definition video system. The property was being completely renovated from the brickwork up, so the opportunity to add the system infrastructure was at first-fix stage. The finished product was eight zones of audio, six zones of high definition TV (Sky HD & Blu Ray) eight zones of standard definition TV (Sky +) an automated home cinema featuring an electric screen and projector lift and lighting control across the property. Multi room audio system Being music lovers with a large collection of CD’s and digital music, we chose the Nuvo Grand Concerto system, a six source, eight zone audio distribution system with a Nuvo M3 160GB Music Server, Nuvo T2 DAB Tuner Nuvo iPod dock located in the kitchen. Once placed in the dock, the music stored on the iPhone or iPod Touch becomes available on the system as another source from any one of the zones where a keypad is located. We also incorporated the family’s existing Bang & Olufsen Beosound9000 CD player which was added to the Nuvo Grand Concerto as another audio source meaning that it can also be played across their home. Discreet in ceiling speakers from Elan Home Systems were installed to provide music which fills each room. Automated home cinema The family wanted to have a special room which was cosy in winter and could be used for a number of …