A traditional Tri-State residence built around two AV stories: a finished basement theater for the family, and in-wall plus in-ceiling distributed audio reaching the great room, kitchen, and the formal piano room. All equipment lives in a closet you walk past without noticing.
The home needed a dedicated basement cinema plus everyday distributed audio upstairs without a control system that made simple use difficult.
Separate the theater and distributed-audio needs, keep equipment hidden, and keep daily operation simple.
The theater, great room, kitchen, dining, and piano-room zones were planned around finished-room use and hidden equipment placement.
The family got a basement theater downstairs and background audio upstairs without visible equipment taking over the rooms.
System notes visible on this page are limited to verified scope already published: projector and fixed screen, in-wall LCR, surrounds, recliners, ceiling stereo zones, and hidden rack.
Home theater installation, media room installation, distributed audio, structured wiring and Wi-Fi support.
Traditional Tri-State residence.
The homeowners wanted a finished basement theater — real cinema seating, real screen, room blacked out for daylight viewing — and they wanted to hear music in the kitchen and great room without thinking about it. No app to learn. No remote with twenty buttons. Just sound where they expected it.
The basement theater was framed and treated with the AV in mind — walls dark, lighting on dimmers, projector throw measured against the chosen screen size during the design phase. Power recliners came in last; the room was built to fit the seating, not the other way around.
