Starry Sky Ceiling Installers – Infinity Fibre Optic Star Ceiling Installation Specialists
Fibre optic star ceilings - installed by a small business with a big track record.
We install starry sky ceilings – fibre optic star ceilings, usually as part of our home cinema projects.
Since 2014, we have worked in close partnership with Starscape Star Ceilings, on so many home cinema projects that we have lost count.
Starscape Star Ceilings are a world leading innovator and manufacturer of fibre optic lighting products.
They are based in Northumberland UK.
According to Starscape’s web site, UK Home Cinemas are “the most experienced installers of our Infinity home cinema star ceiling panels”
What is a Starscape Infinity fibre optic star ceiling?
Starscape Infinity is a panel based system for creating the best Star ceilings to be found. It is no coincidence that Starscape Infinity has been developed to the point where it is absolutely ideal for use in home cinema projects.
Our relationship with Starcape Star Ceilings started around May 2014 when a client asked us to design and install a particular home cinema room, pictured below.
Our client had already set his heart on having a starry sky fibre optic ceiling of some sort and we used an early version of Starscape’s Infinity star ceiling system for that project. Since then we have found Starscape to be incredibly responsive and supportive on every project.
Starscape’s founders were star gazers in their spare time, and this helped them to develop fibre optic star ceiling panels, which had the stars arranged in a way which appears very realistic with differing star sizes and intensities and a very effective twinkle, set against an inky black background, just like the real thing. This is combined with features which make the Starscape Infinity star ceiling system ideal from the point of view of the home cinema room designer and installer.
This type of starry sky ceiling / fibre optic star ceiling / starlight ceiling / night sky ceiling delivers a look which never fails to delight our clients.
More of our starry night sky, Starscape fibre optic star ceiling installations are discussed below
We used a Starscape Infinity star Ceiling for the 2nd time in a cinema room transformation project, pictured below. This project took place in September 2014. We made a timelapse video of the project, and the video went on to be viewed over 2.7 million times on our youtube channel.
We think this may be part of the reason why our small business UK Home Cinemas has been fortunate enough to be asked to install Starscape’s excellent Infinity star ceilings on so many home cinema projects since then.
The project pictured above, was our second installation of a Starscape Infinity star ceiling back in 2014. This photo and others from the same project have appeared on other web sites without permission. In some cases even claiming that its their own work. You can check by watching us install this star ceiling on our youtube video at the bottom of this page. Starscape Star Ceilings are the only other star ceiling company with permission to use our photos. The video includes the whole process of installing this starlight ceiling or starry night sky ceiling, using infinity panels from Starscape Star Ceilings.
In the project pictured below we installed the fabric walls using track and fabric as well as the starry sky fibre optic ceiling.
The project pictured above was installed at the end of 2023. We have a web page about this project here on our site, listed under the page title of Home Cinema Fabric Walls. The project also features a very large fibre optic starry sky starlight ceiling. For this project Starcape made custom oversized sized panels for us and due to the height of the room we had to hire a scaffold tower to install the optical fibre star ceiling.
Design for a lighting bulkhead with a fibre optic starry night sky ceiling.
For most of our projects which involve installing starlight night sky starry ceilings, we have to think carefully about the size of the fibre optic star ceiling. As you can see from the photos to follow, the most popular way to install a star ceiling is to set it into a ceiling coffer, in other words to surround it with a lighting bulkhead. So of course the shape and size of the lighting bulkhead needs to be carefully planned. The shape and size of the array of starlight ceiling panels also needs to be just right, with the right amount of empty space around the edges of it.
We use cad design software to plan the exact shape and size of the lighting bulkhead and the shape and size of the star ceiling its self.
Building the lighting bulkhead for a Starscape Infinity fibre optic star ceiling.
On some of our projects we provide detailed design drawings and hand them to a client’s own builder, so that the builder can make the ceiling bulkhead. On other projects our own carpenters build the bulkhead. In all cases we install the starry night sky fibre optic star ceiling AKA Starscape Infinity star ceiling after the bulkhead has been built and decorated.
Pictured above, is a ceiling bulkhead, which we built. Pictured below is the finished room with the fibre optic star ceiling.
On the project pictured above the wall panels were supplied and installed by another company.
Above a lighting bulkhead under construction, by a clients own builder, according to our detailed design drawings.
Below the finished room with the starlight ceiling panels installed.
In the project pictured below we had to rent a tower to install the starry night sky ceiling panels due to the height of the room.
The Elliptical star ceiling below was installed two floors below ground in a very luxurious town house in Chelsea.
It was made in four segments and it features stars laid out in the astrological constellations, can you spot any of them?
Starry sky ceiling / fibre optic star ceiling installation – designs for the halo effect
While planning and designing cinema rooms with fibre optic star ceilings, we have used a few different ways to achieve the much loved halo lighting effect.
Below are some photos showing a few different examples of this. The most cost effective is not to have a bulkhead at all , but to place the LED strips above the star ceiling panels . so that the wash of light shines outwards and illuminates the original ceiling above, like this:
In the example below there is a kind of bulkhead, but the LED strips are installed just above the star ceiling, similarly to the ones in the picture above.
Fibre optic starry sky ceiling installed into a ceiling coffer on a slanted ceiling
in the project pictured below , we designed the ceiling bulkhead, or ceiling coffer, in CAD Software and our client’s own builder built it while constructing the room. Then we installed the fibre optic star ceiling. The bulkhead has a kind of shelf around its lower edge and the LED strips sit in aluminium channel on that shelf shining their light upwards. This is the most common way to do it, and is similar to most of the bulkheads in our projects. The fact that the ceiling was slanted didn’t make much difference to the way it was done, but it makes for an interesting appearance.
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The fibre optic star ceiling installation pictured below includes two shooting stars.
When placing an order for Starscape Infinity star ceiling panels, its possible to pay a little extra to have a shooting star effect added. You can set how frequently the shooting star will occur. On the project pictured above there are two shooting stars. And just like a real shooting star, it streaks across the sky when you least expect it.
Sound can come through a Starscape Infinity star ceiling – provided that your home cinema room has been designed for that!
With careful design its possible to ask for some small areas of your star ceiling to be acoustically transparent, so that sound can pass through them from Dolby Atmos height channel speakers, which need to have been installed in the original ceiling above the relevant point in your star ceiling array. We have done this twice recently during star ceiling installation projects.
Timelapse video including Starsape Infinity star ceiling installation.
Excellent and expert service, cannot recommend Richard and his team more. At every step of the way he was kind, courteous, and attentive to our needs and concerns, always going out of his way to reassure us about the process. The finished product looks and sounds amazing, and they even got it done ahead of schedule. The knowledge and experience of the team was clear as soon as they arrived to begin the work, and we couldn't be happier with the end result.
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.
We recently built a loft conversion to accommodate a cinema room for a client in Crawley.
The client instructed us to find a company that had the skill and knowledge to bring the cinema to life, Richard and his associate Ben at UK Home Cinemas did an excellent job. Myself, and more importantly my client are extremely happy with how the cinema room has come together. Richard and Ben are extremely knowledgeable and we would definitely work with UK home cinemas again.
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.
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