Media Room Installation
Projector and/or TV based media room systems
Media Rooms installation
At UK Home Cinemas, we specialize in creating bespoke media rooms tailored to suit any budget and style.
Whether you desire a high-end cinematic media wall centre piece in your room or a cozy multipurpose entertainment space, our expert team is dedicated to designing and installing the perfect media room for your home. Let us transform your vision into reality with custom solutions that meet your unique needs and preferences.
What is a Media Room?
A media room is a versatile space within a home that caters to multiple entertainment purposes beyond just watching movies or TV series.
Unlike our dedicated home cinemas, which are designed solely to deliver the ultimate cinematic viewing experience with specific styles and strict technical requirements to provide the best audio and visual quality possible in the space, a media room blends functionality with comfort.
Your room might not be suitable for a dedicated cinema due to factors like abundant of natural light or a more open-plan layout to the room which your may not which to change.
A media room can include various features such as a bar area, casual seating, or even recreational elements like a pool table, making it a hub for social activities and multimedia entertainment. It’s a space designed for families and friends to enjoy, regardless of whether a blockbuster film is on the agenda, and it integrates seamlessly with the aesthetic and function of the rest of the home.
Features of a Media Room
One of the standout features of a media room is it’s flexible and innovative design elements. For instance, a recessed projector and projection screen can be installed into the ceiling, keeping the room’s appearance clean and uncluttered when the equipment is not in use.
This allows the space to remain free from large intrusive, screens and speakers, while transforming into a high-quality viewing area when desired.
Additionally, incorporating speakers into one of our media walls or embedding them in the walls or ceiling helps preserve the room’s aesthetic appeal. These hidden speakers still deliver exceptional sound quality without compromising the design of your room.
In situations where a projector and screen setup is impractical due to ambient light or layout constraints, a large screen TV-based home cinema system serves as an excellent alternative, providing superb visual performance without the need for a darkened lighting controlled room.
You can also combine both options by installing a motorized screen that descends in front of your TV for those family movie nights, or watch the big match and retracts during the day for kids’ cartoons.
Practical Considerations
Media rooms also cater to the practicalities of existing home layouts. In rooms where it’s challenging to install speakers in ideal locations due to furniture arrangements, lack of wall space, or integration with larger living areas, fewer strategically placed speakers can be used.
This flexibility ensures that audio-visual experiences are optimized even in less-than-ideal conditions, with years of experience we can design tailored solutions to balance performance and practicality.
While dedicated cinemas can often be significantly more costly, a dedicated home cinema room typically features a more controlled environment with specific technical enhancements such as windowless designs, controlled lighting, large cinema screens, acoustically treated walls, ambient lighting, and tiered seating. These elements are meticulously designed to create an immersive movie-watching experience.
In contrast, a media room prioritizes multifunctionality and everyday usability, providing high-quality audio-visual entertainment without the need for the specialized and often expensive features found in dedicated cinema rooms.
We specialize in designing and building state-of-the-art media rooms throughout the UK. Whether you prefer a TV, projector or both, our expert team can create the perfect entertainment space tailored to your needs. From initial concept to final installation, we ensure a seamless process, delivering high-quality results that transform your home into the ultimate media haven.
Explore our offerings
- Cinematic Lounge Bronze System is our entry level cinematic lounge system , but it is far from basic. It includes either the Epson EH-TW7100 4K E Shift PRO-UHD projector, or upgrade to the Epson EH-TW9400 4K E Shift Projector, with a 5.1 sound system and KEF speakers…
- Cinematic Lounge Silver System includes the Epson EH-TW9400 4K E Shift Projector or upgrade to the highly acclaimed Epson EH-LS12000B 3LCD 2,700 Lumens Laser Projector, A 7.1 sound system with KEF or Monitor Audio speakers…
- Cinematic Lounge Gold System includes the Epson EH-LS12000B E Shift 3LCD 2,700 Lumens Laser Projector or or upgrade to Sony VPL-XW5000 Native 4K Laser Projector, with a Dolby atmos sound system featuring Dali speakers and integrated Spotify and other web streaming services…
- Cinematic Lounge Platinum System includes the Sony VPL-XW5000 Native 4K Laser Projector with a tab tensioned motorised screen, and a Dolby atmos 11.1 Sound system featuring KEF Ci series speakers…
Customer Testimonial
Richard and his excellent team created an absolutely amazing cinema room for us, beyond our expectations and within our budget. They were polite, tidy and worked diligently. Can't recommend them highly enough. If you're considering making a cinema room, this company is the best, so professional and a pleasure to deal with. We've had our cinema room for a couple of years now, and we absolutely love it, as do friends and family.
Richard’s expertise and consultative approach, makes him a real pleasure to work with. The project turned our double garage into a home cinema room run via Control 4. The garage itself posed a number of constraints (location of the consumer unit, water cylinder, heating controls, etc), which Richard worked through to provide us with a number of options. Their approach encompassed collaboratively working with the building contractor, carpet provider, and cinema seating provider. UK Home Cinemas fitted us the perfect home cinema, and the end result exceeded our expectations. We cannot recommend them Richard and the team highly enough.
Richard from UK home cinemas is great at what he does and pleasure to work with. Richard spent countless hours discussing our design to ensure we could use our new room for all activities we wanted. He was very patient showing and discussing with us potential options and alternatives for what was novel idea and fairly complex design. We had to take into account number of limitation and particularities with heating, air conditioning, lighting and existing speaker and network installation. Richard designed, built and installed perfect acoustic housings for our in-wall speakers as well as number of other features. He and his team worked tirelessly to ensure we get results we wanted. Richard and his team worked collaboratively with subcontractors and our builder.
We would highly recommend UK home cinemas for any media room installation project.
Fantastic service. Richard was very helpful and offered lots of great advice. Even helped give me some ideas when building my own home cinema room. Fantastic service once again and would definitely recommend.
Out of hours, I reached out to UK Home Cinemas for help with a technical problem on my home cinema system. Over a video call, they quickly provided me with exactly the right technical assistance and solved the problem. This prevented me from incurring a significant expense.