Mikipidia wrote:

I actually liked your original kitchen :p

so I can't wat to see what you make of it, keep us updated, I might steel some ideas as I am too remodelling :D

Hi Mikipidia, thank you. The house was brand new, but not to my taste, absolutely, will keep you posted, it will take a while for sure :)))

I have a few before and after pics, will try and post the before's...

andybandy wrote:

I think the best out of the speakers will be beoamp 2 (for pair of speakers) beoamp 16 or parasound. 
Connected to a cinema prosessor. because most of the AV receiver have not the same power.. But yes, for a cost saving, could work:)

Or have you look into what origin that make the celestial / palatial have. 

They have an amplifiers that call valet (4 zone amplifier ) with built in alex support in the ceiling =) look so cool. i saw you want to go for google home in the celling. but look on the valet 

http://valetamplifiers.com/

=) 

Andybandy,

I just had a look, quite cool indeed! Thanks for the suggestion, will dig into both more closely. in reality I will be mixing Amazon and Google, the home automation supports both. Also the smart shower, I will be able to put the shower running and adjust the temp from the bed or from the ground floor via the assistants....now I which the house was done already!! :)))

Corridor

Hi Bpfontes,

Thanks for posting the pictures.  As work is already in progress, it could be prudent to keep access to the cable routes open until you are sure of the way that everything will be connected.  If you can run spare shielded Cat 7 cables to each point from your central wiring hub/equipment cabinet, that will be a great help for "future proofing" when new technology comes out.

To address your questions about which products will work together, the simple answer is that all of them can work together, if they are set up according to your needs.  The secret to a good installation is to be sure of what you want to achieve.

The best place to start is to sketch up a layout of the house, showing the rooms, speakers, TV, projectors, etc, plus any physical music players (eg. turntables).

Next, look at which audio and video sources need to be available in each room and add them to the sketch.  If you have a group of rooms where you will often pass through whilst listening to the same music (eg. kitchen, lounge, dining room) then you can mark these in together as a "zone" to ensure that you have access to your music from all speakers in these areas.

For B&O wireless multiroom music, there is no problem as you can simply select the music to be played on each speaker as required.  However, for Masterlink products, it can be helpful to identify where you wish to play the music to and control it from.

As an example, at home I have two "zones" for music, the first for my office and the rest covering the lounge, dining room, kids' playroom, master bedroom, family bathroom and ensuite bathroom.  This is because there will only ever be one music source playing in the main area of the house (and my wife likes to be able to go from room to room without losing the music), but I may have something different playing in the office at the same time.

If you share the house with other people, their viewing and listening habits should be considered as well, for example if one person will play the turntable in the music room while you play CDs from the Beosound 9000 in the lounge, etc.

Hope this helps!  Please ask if you have any questions.

Kind regards, Steve.

Mikipidia wrote:

I actually liked your original kitchen :p

so I can't wat to see what you make of it, keep us updated, I might steel some ideas as I am too remodelling :D

Me too! I thought the kitchen looked fantastic! I really liked (what I thought) looked like a polished concrete floor. Very nice and industrial looking but not too industrial, therefore working very nicely with the more natural toned kitchen cabinets. A nice feeling of open space.

I undertook the same total refurbishment last year in a small 2 bedroom mid-terraced property. The starting point for the whole project for me was planing around space(s), colours (ironically given the current thread on colour) and the 'feel' that I wanted to achieve. For me, that was a feeling of calm, quiet and serene. My colour choices to reflect this were pastel shades (so more on the lighter shade palette) of blues, yellows and orange (kitchen & furnishings) against a grey and white backdrop. This theme features on both floors with industrial touches of exposed brickwork (feature walls) steel (windows, bifolds, staircase) and wood (floors, skirting, windowsills).

Much of the work needs to be done in the design stage I feel as much harder to change once the bulk of the work has begun. I spent 6 months designing the property beforehand which seems ludicrous at times for such a small space! Things of course don't always go exactly to plan so having a back up plan (or 2, or 3!!) is always a bonus - this was something I hadn't initially considered but now know having reached the end of the project! Not to mention new pipework, electrical, telephony, drainage connections and the utility companies involved to change the outside of the property too. all a huge undertaking and immensely stressful.

I too will be following this thread with interest as with Kieran's.

The Beonic Man wrote:

Mikipidia wrote:

I actually liked your original kitchen :p

so I can't wat to see what you make of it, keep us updated, I might steel some ideas as I am too remodelling :D

Me too! I thought the kitchen looked fantastic! I really liked (what I thought) looked like a polished concrete floor. Very nice and industrial looking but not too industrial, therefore working very nicely with the more natural toned kitchen cabinets. A nice feeling of open space.

I undertook the same total refurbishment last year in a small 2 bedroom mid-terraced property. The starting point for the whole project for me was planing around space(s), colours (ironically given the current thread on colour) and the 'feel' that I wanted to achieve. For me, that was a feeling of calm, quiet and serene. My colour choices to reflect this were pastel shades (so more on the lighter shade palette) of blues, yellows and orange (kitchen & furnishings) against a grey and white backdrop. This theme features on both floors with industrial touches of exposed brickwork (feature walls) steel (windows, bifolds, staircase) and wood (floors, skirting, windowsills).

Much of the work needs to be done in the design stage I feel as much harder to change once the bulk of the work has begun. I spent 6 months designing the property beforehand which seems ludicrous at times for such a small space! Things of course don't always go exactly to plan so having a back up plan (or 2, or 3!!) is always a bonus - this was something I hadn't initially considered but now know having reached the end of the project! Not to mention new pipework, electrical, telephony, drainage connections and the utility companies involved to change the outside of the property too. all a huge undertaking and immensely stressful.

I too will be following this thread with interest as with Kieran's.

Hi Beonic Man, thank you for your contribution. Indeed the kitchen is nice, at this stage nothing yet changed, the construction company just covered it, its still there. You are right, the floor of the house is polished concrete (microcement), in fact the entire house will be in that, being walls, floor and ceiling, I call it Bunker :)...I know original right😂

I will change the kitchen to Binova's Vesta model, it will now be made of white marble (exterior), instead of the traditional melamine or MDF, with a cooking top done directly into the marble, meaning, direct induction via the marble stone, so from a view it will seem as if its just the kitchen countertop (Binova's induction technology).

Like most of us, I am very into new tech and design, how to complement and interact the both. The house was good before, but not to my personal taste, I want it to be fully controlled by home automation, top of the line audio speakers and system (B&O), with all its flaws :), etc. any given socket, exactly where I want, the dining table and the office desk will be works of "art", and will then be covered in the same polished concrete, as if it was part of one big concrete chunk and will have inbuilt Qi wireless phone charging docks...

I very much appreciated your description of your reno, it would be great to see some images, fell free to post if you like.

Will keep you all posted.

Thanks Kiran,

I have the RJ45 to RCA adapter (B&O equivalent part number 6271216) available here if required: 

Hi legendary Kiran! Thank you for the sent information, I had seen it on your thread and indeed is quite informative and explanatory. I have an immediate question though, how many different zones can I create with the BeoAmp 16? Will it depend on the number of speakers (passive) that I have?

I am looking to create 11 different areas, would I need a Beo16 and a few other Beo2 for instances?

To have all speakers, passive or active (when needed) working in the same zone, do I connect both onto the Beo16/2, or its only for the passive speakers.

If my home automation allows for B&O integration, I don't necessary need the Essence right? I would imagine that you are able to control your audio from your Lutron wall plates, right?

Thank you,