What is the necessary budget?

Installing a Private Cinema in your own home may seem like a dream.

This dream can nevertheless become a nightmare very quickly when it comes down to comparing several contractors, finding the right one and the right budget...

- This contractor must be specialized in their field, not only in the installation of basic home cinemas. Would you have your high-end concrete pool built by a pool-maker who only sells pre-made above ground pools?

- Make sure that they have been established for a long time: Since 2002, we have exceeded 200 installations of high-end Private Home Cinemas. Looking at video and photo galleries often says a lot about a company. You can find 800 photos and over 120 installations exhibiting this on our site, making our company THE EXPERT in our profession.

- Make sure that they have well known certificates to handle the audio/video settings of your future installation: We are certified in ISF and level 2 THX. You can’t get much better than that! Without this expertise, your installation will never achieve its full potential and it will be very disappointing.

- Make sure that the contractor does not install mainstream equipment that you can find in any local electronics store (in the style of traditional home cinemas…)

REMINDER: the budget varies depending on:

The dimensions of the Private Cinema Room
The soundproofing and the level of acoustic treatment to be provided
The quality of the audio and video equipment
The general decoration and the finishing touches
The number of spectators and the chosen furniture (for example, the price of cinema armchairs varies from 500 to 5000 euros, that being from 1 to 10!)
The desired selections (starry sky, home automation, vibrators, movement of the armchairs on actuators, projection in a CinemaScope format, cinema server, touch-screen remote etc.)

You will therefore easily understand that the final budget can go from being simple to three times as large, depending on the choices that you make and the level of desired service.
It is like comparing a less costly Skoda and a more expensive Mercedes. Even though they both have a motor, 4 wheels, a steering wheel and accelerate to 130 km/h on the highway without batting an eye, they do this with a completely different approach. Also, their end results are astoundingly different, without talking about the price… The connection between quality and the price has never been truer in our profession. When it’s less expensive, it’s bound to be less good. Still trying to decide what level of service you want?!?

Our company being firmly orientated towards quality, a high-end service and a resolutely professional approach, an average budget oscillates between 90000€ and 170000€ “all inclusive”. This includes the most difficult and the most important elements, namely the work and transformation in accordance with professional standards, in a Private Cinema Room (acoustic walls, acoustic ceiling, decoration, lighting circuits, electricity, platforms and downstage, armchairs, technical furniture, carpet) and all of the most technical parts (THX sound, video projection, home automation, cinema screen, vibrators etc.).

Reminder: The largest job concerns the transformation of the room itself (around 80% of our work). The purely technical part (installation of the speakers, projector, etc.) is by far the easiest in this sort of project and is never the most important element.

For example, if you install an ensemble of THX certified speakers and amps in a room which has no possibility of THX acoustic performance (plasterboard on the walls, ceiling etc…) you can assume that there will be nothing resembling THX quality at the end result.

The acoustic quality of the room embodies 80% of the final result in the CINEMA!!!