New houses, extensions and whole-house remodels, from feasibility and planning through to construction drawings, by our own architectural designers.
Expertise
The house and everything in it, designed as one.
The architecture, the interiors, the cinema, the lighting, the network and the locks are not separate purchases. They are one home, and they should feel like one.
Disciplines
Our disciplines
The build itself, delivered by our project directors and approved contractors to one programme, one budget and one standard.
Joinery, stone, fabrics and furniture, designed alongside the architecture so every surface is ready for the technology it will carry.
Acoustically isolated rooms, laser projection, reference-grade calibration and seating built for the space. Designed from the slab up, never fitted into a spare room.
Lighting, climate, shading, audio, security and access on one considered interface: a keypad, a phone, or nothing at all.
Layered architectural lighting, tunable white and scene control, drawn with the interior designer so the fittings disappear and the room appears.
Music in every room, invisible speakers where the interior demands it, and a dedicated listening room where the music deserves it.
Commercial-grade infrastructure in a private house: fibre, leased lines, enterprise switching and Wi-Fi, telephony and Cisco Webex, segmented and monitored, so a household of hundreds of devices never once feels its presence.
Perimeter detection, surveillance, gates and safe rooms, integrated with the home's control so protection is one gesture away.
Automated blinds and curtains, climate zoning and air quality, brought under the same quiet control as everything else.
Wellness spaces designed into the house from the outset, with the plant, control and acoustics they need to feel effortless.
Family rooms, games rooms, gardens and terraces: entertainment that works at midday and at midnight.
Tour-grade golf simulators and racing rigs, built into rooms designed for them from the outset: screen, projection, sound, lighting and ventilation as one, so the round or the lap feels real.
Remote monitoring, protected power, scheduled service and upgrades over the years, with one number to call for as long as you own the home.
The marques we specify
The best in their field
We specify what we believe to be the finest product in each discipline, and nothing that compromises the end result. No corner is cut, and none is hidden. We hold no allegiance to any of them, and we will say so when something else is the better answer.
Select a marque to see why we specify it.
Barco Residential
Barco makes the projectors behind many of the world's commercial cinemas. Its flagship residential models bring the same RGB laser cinema engineering and cinema-standard colour into a private room, which is why a Barco is where our reference cinemas begin.
Sony
Where a screen is the better answer than a projector, we specify Sony, for the most faithful picture processing we have found. Sony builds the reference monitors on which many films are graded, and its televisions draw on that expertise.
Meridian Audio
Meridian, from Cambridgeshire, has spent decades refining digital active loudspeakers, including in-wall designs that vanish into an interior and still fill the room. When the music matters as much as the film, it is where we start.
Trinnov
Trinnov's Altitude processors map a room's acoustics in three dimensions and correct for them, which is why they sit at the heart of our reference cinemas.
Kaleidescape
Kaleidescape plays films at up to 4K Blu-ray quality with lossless sound, well beyond what the mainstream streaming services deliver, and with none of the buffering. The film is ready the moment the lights go down.
Bel Air Cinema
Bel Air Cinema brings current releases from participating studios into the private cinema, for clients who would rather not wait for a film to leave the theatres.
Roon
Roon keeps a serious music library in order: stored albums alongside streaming from TIDAL and Qobuz in one place, richly catalogued, and played to any room in the house.
Sonos
Sonos looks after the everyday rooms: the kitchen, the terrace, the children's rooms. We specify it because, in our experience, the whole family finds it familiar and easy to live with.
Lutron
Lutron for light and shade: dimming that is smooth all the way to black, blinds that move at a whisper, and keypads built and finished to do the house justice.
Control4
Control4 draws the home's systems together on one interface the whole family will actually use: lighting, climate, music, cinema and security, from a keypad, a touchscreen or a phone.
Cisco
The equipment we install in offices, brought home. Cisco switching and security sit at the core of the network, so a household of hundreds of devices can get on with the day and rarely give the network a thought.
Cisco Meraki
Meraki Wi-Fi and security are managed from the cloud, which lets us watch over a home's network remotely and put many faults right without a visit, sometimes before anyone in the house has noticed.
Webex
Webex for calling and meetings: a proper telephone system and video conferencing for the home office, hosted in the cloud, with no telephone exchange to house or maintain on site.
Microsoft
Microsoft 365 for a household or family office that runs like a business: email, documents and sign-in, set up and secured properly.
Microsoft Azure
Azure where a home or family office needs cloud services of its own, from secure storage to backup. It is the platform we trust for our own systems.
Apple
Apple, because it is what most of our clients carry. The house is built to welcome it, from AirPlay in the living rooms to control from the phone already in your pocket.
Technogym
Commercial equipment, never the domestic range. Technogym, the Italian maker found in many of the world's leading hotels and clubs, for cardio and strength equipment that is used every day.
Primal Strength
Primal Strength's British-designed commercial range, for the racks, rigs and free weights of a serious training room.
Trackman
Trackman, a launch monitor many tour professionals practise with, for golf simulation that tells the truth about a swing.
DeWalt
Even the tools. Our engineers and operatives work with DeWalt, because the fixing nobody sees decides how long the finish everyone sees will last.
Begin a conversation.
Tell us a little about the home you have in mind, or the one you already own. A director will reply personally, and in confidence.