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Bespoke Cinema Rooms

Cinema rooms are as much about what you cannot see as what you can: equipment out of sight, cabling routed away, surfaces that absorb rather than reflect, and lighting that can drop to almost nothing.

Our joinery covers the built elements — panelling, screen surrounds, equipment cabinetry, seating platforms and storage — and is coordinated with your audio-visual specialist so the technical requirements are built in.

Media wall with LED-lit padded leather panels, a gold-framed television surround, long inset fire and low fitted cabinets

What the service includes

01

Screen and speaker joinery

Screen surrounds, speaker positions and acoustically transparent detailing set out with your AV installer.

02

Wall and ceiling panelling

Fabric, timber or upholstered panelling detailed to suit the room's acoustics and proportions.

03

Equipment housing

Ventilated racks and cabinets with proper access, keeping equipment silent and reachable.

04

Seating platforms and storage

Tiered platforms, step lighting and storage for everything the room needs to keep out of sight.

Explore cinema rooms

  • Bespoke media unit in pale ash with brass shadow lines, backlit television panel and oak slatted wall detail

    Cinema Room Cabinetry

    Cabinetry built to house AV equipment properly, with the ventilation, cable routes and acoustics a cinema room needs.

  • Bespoke media wall in smoked oak with a gold-leaf television surround, three-sided glass fire below and LED-lit display shelving either side

    Cinema Furniture

    Furniture built around the room's equipment, seating and sightlines, rather than assembled from separate pieces.

  • Media wall with a textured stone-effect centre panel, recessed television, long inset log-effect fire and LED-lit walnut shelving either side

    Cinema Room Storage

    Closed storage suited to a darkened room, keeping everyday clutter out of sight without a single reflective surface.

  • Angled view of a black and walnut bedroom media wall with slatted walnut panelling, floating cabinets and integrated LED strips

    Cinema Media Units

    The unit that sits below or around the screen, built to the exact relationship between screen, speakers and seating.

Materials & finishes

Finishes are chosen with you and sampled before anything is built, so the colour, grain and hardware are agreed while the design is still on paper.

  • Acoustic fabric panelling
  • Slatted and fluted timber
  • Upholstered wall panels
  • Blackened steel detailing
  • Concealed step and cove lighting

How the project runs

  1. 01

    Consultation

    We visit the space or meet at the workshop, talk through how the room needs to work, and agree a realistic budget before any drawings are issued.

  2. 02

    Design

    Measured drawings show exactly what is being built: cabinet sizes, storage layout, sightlines and how the furniture meets the building.

  3. 03

    Materials & Finishes

    Timbers, paint colours, worktops and ironmongery are sampled and agreed, so nothing is decided from a photograph alone.

  4. 04

    Manufacture

    Everything is built in our Derbyshire workshop by the people who will install it, which keeps the detailing and the quality consistent.

  5. 05

    Installation

    We fit, scribe and adjust on site, protect the rest of the house while we work, and walk the finished furniture through with you.

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Cinema Rooms projects

Case studies for this collection are being photographed and written up. In the meantime, we can show you completed work when we meet, or send photographs of similar projects on request.

Cinema Rooms — common questions

Do you supply the audio-visual equipment?
We do not supply the audio-visual equipment ourselves; instead, we build the room and its joinery around it. We work alongside your chosen AV specialist to agree screen size, speaker positions and equipment locations, or can put you in touch with specialists we have worked with before, so the technical requirements are resolved ahead of manufacture.
Can a cinema room work in a normal-sized room?
A modest spare room or garden room can work well for a cinema, since proportion, seating distance from the screen and light control matter far more than raw floor area. We plan sightlines, screen size and seating position against the actual dimensions of your room, and coordinate with your AV specialist so the technical requirements suit the space available.
Angled view of a navy painted drinks wall with lit oak wine racking, open shelving and panelled cupboards beneath a marble-effect counter

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