Theater Raises a Glass to Hidden Wine Room
By Arlen Schweiger
This historic home had a hidden room off the area scheduled to become the home theater, so now the owners can enter it to grab a glass of wine for the movie presentation.
Designing a high-end, high-performance home theater is challenging enough in a traditional ol' house. But how about in a historic ol' house?
That's what the teams at New York-based AV Design & Integration and Acoustic Smart dealt with when planning for this 100-plus-year-old home that's protected by the historic preservation society.
Everything we incorporated had to match the original style and grandeur of the home, says AV Design & Integration's Michael DeMello.
Using hand drawings and 3-D renderings, AV Design and Acoustic Smart put the plans together for everything including sight lines, seating, color texture, audio visual components, carpet, finishes and performance expectations, says DeMello.
The performance wound up matching the grandeur of the homewith superior images from a Runco RS- 1100 Ultra projector with CineWide with autoscope and 120-inch 2.35:1 Stewart Filmscreen Electrimask screen; 7.2-channel surround sound from Triad speakers and powered by Denon; and high-def movies from Sony Blu-ray and Vudu on-demand service. An RTI T4 touchscreen remote keeps everything operating smoothly and easy to work with.
The installers even found a surprise when construction began on the room a hidden room.
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By Arlen Schweiger
This historic home had a hidden room off the area scheduled to become the home theater, so now the owners can enter it to grab a glass of wine for the movie presentation.
Designing a high-end, high-performance home theater is challenging enough in a traditional ol' house. But how about in a historic ol' house?
That's what the teams at New York-based AV Design & Integration and Acoustic Smart dealt with when planning for this 100-plus-year-old home that's protected by the historic preservation society.
Everything we incorporated had to match the original style and grandeur of the home, says AV Design & Integration's Michael DeMello.
Using hand drawings and 3-D renderings, AV Design and Acoustic Smart put the plans together for everything including sight lines, seating, color texture, audio visual components, carpet, finishes and performance expectations, says DeMello.
The performance wound up matching the grandeur of the homewith superior images from a Runco RS- 1100 Ultra projector with CineWide with autoscope and 120-inch 2.35:1 Stewart Filmscreen Electrimask screen; 7.2-channel surround sound from Triad speakers and powered by Denon; and high-def movies from Sony Blu-ray and Vudu on-demand service. An RTI T4 touchscreen remote keeps everything operating smoothly and easy to work with.
The installers even found a surprise when construction began on the room a hidden room.
Click here to continue.
