Welcome to 'Hell's Home Cinema'. It's reality TV star Grant Bovey's playboy pad

When Creative Home Cinema's Mark Buckfield met Hell's Kitchen contestant Grant Bovey at his brand-new playpad, it quickly became clear that he was planning something special...

An avid music and film fan, Grant wanted the ultimate sound and vision experience. However, it was also essential that the tech should fit seamlessly into the elegant design his wife and fellow Hell's Kitchen star, Anthea Turner, cooked up.

The huge living space is divided into dining, relaxing and entertainment areas, and the audio system needed to reflect the different requirements of each zone. In order to make the speakers as unobtrusive as possible in the sitting room, 1.8m tall Artcoustic speakers were concealed in built-in storage cupboards, while four flush-mounted SpeakerCraft speakers recess into the ceiling.

These can descend and rotate to direct sound into the sitting area when watching TV, or the entertaining area for listening to music. Using four identical speakers meant they could either be used separately or combined to produce an overall ambient sound throughout the living space.

With so many windows in the apartment and very little available wall space, the only way to add a screen to the dining room was to look up! Consequently, a 42in screen has been hidden in the ceiling on a motorised lift and can drop down at the touch of a button.

Providing film and music content to the various screens (including a Philips Aurea in the kitchen and another drop-down screen in the guest bedroom) is a Kaleidescape media server and two Sky HD boxes. Delighted with the install, the only question Grant has left is whether his Dalek can be programmed to operate the Crestron system...

11 key facts about this install

Instead of a projector screen, this home cinema system features an HD Ready 50in plasma with content sourced from Kaleidescape media servers and Sky+ HD...

Artcoustic DFF180-43 speakers standing at 1.8m-high deliver the depth of sound needed for listening to music in the sitting room, and are concealed in these large built-in storage cupboards...

All of the amplifiers, AV sources and control systems are hidden away in a double-racked equipment cupboard...

The ceiling-mounted SpeakerCraft TIME FIVE speakers can drop down and angle to find the optimal audio effect...

Even the gas fire in this swanky joint ignites under IR control...

Control of the system is made nice and easy with a Crestron STX-1700CXP touchscreen panel...

The Artcoustic PA-300 power amplifier delivers 120W RMS (stereo) or 300 RMS (mono)...

No groovy gadget-filled apartment is truly complete without a life-size Dalek...

As in the kitchen, vital wall space is saved in the gust bedroom by having a ceiling-mounted, pop-down 42in plasma screen...

A key part of the system is the pair of Crestron C2N-DAP8RC 7.1-channel audio processors...

The Crestron CNAMPX-16X60 intelligent amplifier offers 60W of power across each of its 16-channels of audio...

Cost: £unspecified

Contact: www.creativehomecinema.co.uk

Kit checklist

Sitting room
Vidikron PlasmaView VP-5000: 50in 1365 x 768 HD Ready plasma monitor
Kaleidescape KPLAYER-5000: 2 x AV servers with integrated CD/DVD combo drive, capable of playing HD and DVD content from a Kaleidescape KSERVER-1500 media server
Thompson DSI8215: 2 x Sky HD digiboxes supply HD content to the property's many HD Ready screens
Artcoustic DF-MULTI 50in: 1 x in-one LCR speaker is hidden away behind the screen
Artcoustic DFF180-43: 2 x 1.8m tall full-range speakers are concealed either side of the sitting room screen
SpeakerCraft TIME FIVE: 4 x flush-mounted in-ceiling speakers that can drop down to a 15-, 30- or 45° angle
Crestron TPS-RFGWX: RF transceiver allowing Crestron 2.4 GHz 2-way wireless touchpanels to communicate with the control system
Crestron STX-1700CXP: 2-way wireless touchpanel controller with 5.7in colour screen

Dining room
Vidikron VP-42HD: 42in 1024 x 768 HD Ready plasma monitor connected to Future Automation PH PLASMA HINGE drop-down lift
Artcoustic DF- MULTI 42': Wall-mounted centre speaker
SpeakerCraft TIME FIVE: 4 x flush-mounted in-ceiling, positional speakers

Kitchen
Philips 42PFL9900D: 42in Full HD Aurea LCD TV
Speakercraft AIM8 FIVE: 2 x 8in in-ceiling 2-way speaker

Master bedroom
Vidikron PlasmaView VP-5000: 50in 1365 x 768 HD Ready plasma monitor
Artcoustic Diablo Sub Panel: Wall-mounted subwoofer
Speakercraft TIME FIVE: 4 x flush-mounted in-ceiling, positional speakers

Master bathroom
Aquavision AV-F17-2: Splash-proof 17in LCD TV
SpeakerCraft 6.5 DT: 3 x 2-way in-ceiling dual tweeter speakers

Guest bedroom
Vidikron VP-42HD: 42in HD Ready plasma monitor connected to drop-down lift
Speakercraft AIM8 FIVE: 2 x 8 in in-ceiling 2-way speaker
Crestron CNRFGWA: 1-way remote RF receiver
Creston MT-1000C: Hand-held remote