The Artwork of Hidden Expertise


As know-how advances, we’re in a position to adapt our method to how AV tools seems and feels in a contemporary dwelling. When NV Integration entered the trade 11 years in the past we got down to create uniquely tailor-made luxurious properties, by fulfilling the imaginative and prescient of the consumer and the design group. 

CENTRALISED IS BEST

In a typical trendy dwelling, rooms are generally plagued by good dwelling gadgets, audio setups, TVs, and simply usually ‘black field electronics’. These devices are nice and are there to make our lives less complicated, however they hardly ever take into account the aesthetic draw back.

Taking over helpful area and sometimes with trailing wires making a room look untidy. Our resolution is to centralise tools as a lot as doable, with solely the mandatory tools in residing areas.

With this methodology management of the house stems from one place. With the additional advantage of a house automation system, comparable to Crestron or Control4, which unifies applied sciences to work together with one another and permits the house owner a easy modus operandi with a de-cluttered life-style.

 Two equipment racks from two different projects

 Clear up the wall zits

Wall-mounted contact screens let you disguise extra know-how than you would possibly suppose. An built-in house is the mixture of varied applied sciences comparable to audio, video, safety, lighting, and temperature, working in unison with one another.

Every interface is programmed so you’ll be able to shortly entry or obtain data, comparable to answering the door. This negates the necessity for having quite a lot of switches and buttons which might be complicated and in the end detract from the inside scheme.

on wall touch screens

On the left is a house automation system which shows a normal consumer interface, The fitting aspect contact panel from Crestron is totally customisable in its look and performance.  

Let there be mild

Sensible lighting management methods, comparable to Lutron are the answer to having too many mild switches that litter the partitions of your house. Historically a lightweight swap is wired to the bodily mild making the swap on the wall the one solution to management it.

Nonetheless, with a lighting management system a scene operate, comparable to ‘Welcome’ can management quite a few circuits to predetermined ranges.

Having the lighting wired to a central system allows you to have management over all the lights while not having to be within the room and even the home.

Moreover, lights might be programmed to pre-sets comparable to film mode the place lights are dimmed, or an evening time scene the place lights flip down but in addition shut blinds and curtains.

Did we point out Lutron additionally controls these? Whereas pre-programmed circumstances can work autonomously, a easy wall-mounted keypad is a sensible gadget, that appears beautiful on the wall.

Smart lighting control

Examples of Lutron’s Palladiom keypads. Left displaying an architectural in-wall end, and proper normal set up.

 TV, hidden in plain sight

With some inventive pondering and the suitable design, there’s loads of methods to have a TV be seen solely while you want it to be. 

Simply two examples are mirror TVs and the Body TV.

The mirror TV is sort of distinctive and fully customisable. The mirror is made from a particular materials that permits mild to move so when the TV is on it reveals a picture and when the TV is off it’s going to merely be a mirror.

The Body TV, then again, is a TV which sits inside a bordered image body which is flush to the wall. Body TVs have a default artwork mode so it’s going to show high-quality paintings from an internet catalogue when in standby.

 Hide TVs in Samsung's the Frame or in mirrors

On the left is a Samsung Body TV. The fitting is displaying an put in mirror TV in a bed room. 

 Hello-fi, sure and no?

Hello-Fi stands for Excessive constancy audio. This simply means the best high quality of audio, and we love that however not the litter that comes with it. Hello-Fi has been round endlessly however appears to be making a resurgence with digital know-how like MQA.

Combining numerous items of {hardware}, amplifiers, audio system, subwoofers, and media gamers. The massive disadvantage is the area you want for all this tools, that may typically look very man cave.

With our centralised platform, we are able to go away the audio within the room with out having to see one piece of {hardware}. However you additionally is likely to be pondering the place are the audio system?

We often use invisible in-wall audio system that disguise a skinny topcoat of plaster. So that you simply hear sound, however do not see audio system.

Speakers can be hidden behind walls or in ceiling

Left and proper photographs present invisible in-wall audio system hidden behind wallpaper and plaster finishes. The audio system have additionally been efficiently put in behind wooden veneers and even stone. Each of those methods can be found to see and listen to in our London showrooms.

 

If you’re to study extra in regards to the artwork of hidden know-how click on right here to e book a viewing to one in all our showrooms. 



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