A proper film-lover's cinema in a Bramcote home, and a room that gets used any time: the match with the sound up, films with the family, an afternoon that turns into an evening. Deep Buckley seating, the controls built into the arms and artwork printed onto our own acoustic panels.
Charcoal walls, warm timber and a brushed-metal ceiling raft, lit low and even so nothing competes with the screen. Framed artwork lines the walls, sculptural sconces sit between the panels, and the whole room is built to fall away the moment the lights drop.
The seating is built up from modules in the Buckley range, laid out as a deep, lounge-style bank you can stretch right out across. Set into the arm is something you won't find off the shelf: a solid walnut inlay, machined and finished in our own workshop, with the room controls built straight into the timber. Lights, screen and sound under your hand, with no remote in sight.
Solid walnut, made and finished in-house, with the room controls set flush into the arm.
The layout, resolved in design before a single module was ordered.
Every framed piece on these walls is one of our own acoustic panels, upholstered and printed with the client's chosen artwork. They read as gallery prints. They behave as acoustic treatment, soaking up the reflections so the sound stays clean. The thing you'd pick for the look is the same thing making the room sound right.
Printed velvet acoustic panels: chosen as art, working as treatment.
This is the part most people never get to see. The Matinee existed as a design long before it existed as a room, and the two ended up all but identical. It came to us as a bare shell, part of an extension being built on the house, and we took it from there: lined out with sound-blocking plasterboard, then finished to the design.
Left, the room in design. Right, the room we handed over.
From bare shell (left) to a room lined with sound-blocking plasterboard, ready for finishes (right).
The Matinee was designed and built end to end by Top Corner, from the first render to the final finish. Yours can be too.