Melbourne Entertainer

Its immediately appreciable how the meandering space appointed with soft comfort lighting creates an atmosphere for relaxation. Where on other projects, some basement entertaining areas having been constructed with limited space can feel enclosed, this generous open plan concept feels like being transported into a luxury hotel or private cruise liner. But you don’t have to pack your bags and travel!

A smart control design beautiful solves the space through activation of intelligent lighting with ease to any desired preference for comfort and entertaining for the occasion. Whether it be a virtual in-home round of golf at the premier courses around the world in the golf simulation area, a game of pool with friends, intimate drinks at the central bar through to casual large screen viewing or immersive Gold Class cinema experience, the possibilities are endless for an entire day or evening.
With the touch of a button, you experience adaptive lighting or with ease play and enjoy the worlds music – all at the appropriate level for the occasion. Or, just as easily access any shared Foxtel box in the home, a blockbuster Blu-ray DVD, or the worlds high definition streaming content on the 180” cinema screen with the stunning imagery drawing on the latest laser projection with optimal clarity. Even preview live CCTV cameras when a situation demands.

Behind a cohesive smart design, it’s all about creating ambience and experiencing engaging entertainment in the moment. And with effortless control, all the technology is hidden away for total simplicity, custom fit to allow the lighting, artwork and interiors come together. And as guest come and go, its so easy to manage intercom calls, release gates and doors and adjust outdoor lighting too.

A cleaver feature of the space is with the automation of motorised theatre drapery to extend from its retracted position from full open plan mode, to then cocoon and section off the cinema seating from the rest of the open plan area. This ensures intimate viewing, greater acoustic optimisation and allows the other open plan spaces to remain multifunctional beyond the cinema without light spill onto the cinema screen.

Being a multistorey home, the intelligent lighting and blind control extends through the house for comfort adaption through the upper levels and outdoor environments too. Extending to motorised window control, fresh air movement capability transforms the feeling of space too.

Video distribution sharing all the homes Foxtel boxes, CCTV viewing and content to other TV rooms allows shared and independent accessed for multiple TV rooms and cinema. The same expansion of the custom-fit music system also caries through the property for effortless entertaining and relaxation too.

Quickly, the smart home design provides access to all the entertainment and comfort services to solve simplicity and convenience when living in the multilevel home and property. This convenience further extends to conveniently located touchscreens, or smartphone control convenience too, over all levels and outdoor areas. With further incorporation of smart intercom, gate control, CCTV viewing, and security control, a perfect blend for feeling safe and secure, being entertained, managing controlled gates and doors, all with the satisfaction of comfort adaption complete a delightful home.

An important aspect of the project was to have a generator to provide guaranteed power to essential services during power disruptions to the street. So, in a power outage, the motorised gates, roller door, essential communications and priority power circuits ensure the basics are still available and access is maintained into a highly secure property. Integrated with the home control system touchscreens, its possible to see the state of essential power from the generator and state of the mains supply from the street in managing power outage situations.

Returning to the basement and considering the aspects of the solid, multilevel construction, the design considered the home structure creating numerous black spots for typical mobile phone reception. A tailored mobile phone re-distribution solution that re-broadcasts mobile coverage withing the house was implemented securing the reliance on mobile coverage day to day.