By webadmin

September 30, 2026

A finished home cinema room with two rows of recliners, fabric walls and fitted shelving

Homeowners in Dublin and Cork often ask us what it really takes to build a home cinema room. The honest answer is six stages of work, and the best way to explain them is with a real example. Here is how one of our cinema rooms came together, with photos of every stage further down.

1. Strip the room and sort out the sound

Before work began, this room had black painted walls, film wallpaper and a blind over the window. Out came the ceiling and everything else in the room. A new stud wall then went up to hold the sound in, and the ceiling went back at a lower height, which is better for the acoustics.

2. Raise the back row

Two rows of seats only work when the people behind can see over the people in front. Here a timber platform under the rear seats does that job. The cables were run at this point too, since every surface in the room was open and easy to reach.

3. Lose the daylight, keep a feature

Daylight and a projector do not mix. The window was closed off behind the new wall, and fitted shelving was built into the opening, with a light on each shelf. A wall that might have been plain is now a feature of the room.

4. Put the speakers out of sight

Fabric covers the walls, and the Sonance speakers sit behind it where nobody can see them. An Anthem MRX 11 AV receiver, paired with a power amplifier, looks after the sound. Video is carried on CAT6 cable by an AVPro Edge MXNet system. Our acoustic fabric walls page covers the fabrics, the colours and guide prices.

5. Light it in lines

LED strips that change colour trace the walls from top to bottom, circle the ceiling and mark the front of each step. One photo below shows them glowing red during testing. A later photo shows them in blue, taken after the carpet was laid and the first seats had arrived.

6. Seats, screen and one system to run it

Nine recliners fill the two levels, and the screen takes up the whole of the far wall. A housing at the rear of the room holds the projector. Crestron runs the entire room, so it stays easy to use, and picture and sound were both calibrated by our engineers ahead of handover.

How long does a home cinema room take?

Allow around four and a half months for a room like this one. Planning and design took roughly a month. The structural work and soundproofing needed two. The AV equipment and the fabric walls took another month, and the lighting, carpet and final setup filled the last fortnight. We finished in March 2024.