Life Style Store completed a full theatre renovation in this existing home. The first stage of this renovation was to install a custom home theatre room and multi room audio visual system. The basis for a home automation system with basic lighting control was also requested as part of the initial brief.

The second stage of the renovation was to add an audio visual system in the master bedroom and complete the automation of the complete home including automated home lighting control, a security alarm and camera integration, access control, intercom and touch screens. Motorised blinds were also supplied and installed to all areas of the home by Life Style Store. Automation of the home has made it easy to manage areas of the home from an all off perspective and controlling lighting and audio with scenes for general home use and entertaining. Goodnight and Lock House scenes turn off all lights and audio visual and can open or close selected motorised blinds depending on the time and season.

Bathroom lights work off sensors and turn off automatically with timers as the children normally don’t turn off the room lights! When the home is occupied the outdoor lighting automatically turn on each night and turn off as part of the goodnight scene.

The house itself is not a large home, it is a normal every day suburban home. It has been transformed into a fully automated home with every part of the home being simple and easy to use. There is music in almost every room of the home the whole system is simple and easy to use.

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MAGIC MOMENTS

Music and movies at the touch of a button are part of everyday life for this Beaumont Hills family

Although this existing Beaumont Hills house is not large in size, it has been beautifully transformed into a fully automated home with music in almost every room, and every part of the system being simple and easy to use.

Life Style Store completed a full theatre renovation in the home occupied by a family of two working parents, teenage children and two dogs. “For our renovation, we were inspired by various boutique resorts that we have stayed in and elements of premium display homes,” explains homeowner Brenda. The first stage of the renovation was to install a custom home theatre room and multi-room audio-visual system. The basis for a home automation system with basic lighting control was also requested as part of the initial brief. The second stage was to add an audio-visual system in the newly added master bedroom, and upstairs gym, and to complete the automation of the entire home including automated home lighting control, a security alarm and camera integration, access control, intercom and touchscreens. Motorised blinds were also supplied and installed to all areas of the home by Life Style Store.

Automation has made it easy to manage areas of the home from an all-off perspective and control lighting and audio with scenes for general home use and entertaining. ‘Goodnight’ and ‘Lock House’ scenes turn off all lights and audio-visual and can open or close selected motorised blinds, depending on the time and season. Bathroom lights work from sensors and turn off automatically with timers as the children often don’t turn off the room lights. When the home is occupied, the outdoor lighting automatically turns on each night and turns off as part of the goodnight scene. A darker movie room aesthetic with stars was requested by Brenda and her husband for the home theatre. “The home theatre room is definitely my favourite part of the renovation — it gets used very night,” says Brenda. “Meanwhile, my husband’s favourite element of the project would be his music system — another part of the home that is used almost every day.” The work had to be completed while the family was living in the home but, fortunately, this didn’t present any problems. “The installers at Life Style Store were always very respectful of working within our home,” says Brenda. “Compared to many other trades they were neat and, most importantly, always cleaned up after themselves.”

• Year of installation: 2011 stage 1, 2013 stage 2, audio system update 2018
• Suburb: Beaumont Hills
• Architect: Client
• Builder: Existing home — renovated

Photography by: Life Style Store