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Boston Home Cinema designs and installs luxury home theaters, private cinemas and media rooms for homes across New England. It is part of Boston Automations, the award-winning smart home company in Norwood, MA, and partners with CinemaTech for theater design, acoustics and handcrafted seating.

CinemaTech is a family-owned luxury home theater company founded in 1998. It makes handcrafted theater seating in Germany and the USA, designs private cinemas through its Design Services Program, and offers its exclusive Acoustic Room System. CinemaTech has showrooms in Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami and New York.

Yes. CinemaTech's drawings and our system design are made to slot into your architect's and builder's plans. We coordinate blocking, conduit, HVAC, isolation and finishes with every trade, and we work with your interior designer on materials.

We work across Greater Boston, MetroWest, the North Shore and South Shore, Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, Rhode Island and southern New Hampshire, and we take on select projects elsewhere in New England.

A design consultation, AutoCAD floor plans, reflected ceiling plans and wall elevations, sightline and viewing angle studies, seating electrical and lighting placement, general audio and video locations, four photorealistic renderings, materials guidance and an itemized proposal.

Not always. For a room inside an existing home, CinemaTech's drawings and our system design are usually enough for a builder. For additions, new homes or structural changes, your architect leads and we coordinate with them.

Yes. Most of our projects are existing rooms, often lower levels or bonus rooms. We measure, then design the seating, screen and acoustics around the room you have.

Yes. CinemaTech designs modern, transitional and richly traditional theaters, and we work with your interior designer on materials, millwork and lighting.

There are 24 collections across theater recliners, sofas and sectionals, the CinemaTech Living collection and swivel chairs, built in Germany and the USA.

Yes. Most German-built models use a three-motor system for the headrest, back and footrest, and US-built models use a two-motor system for the back and footrest. Many models offer a motorized chaise.

Yes. Many models accept COM and COL, meaning a fabric or leather supplied by you or your designer.

CinemaTech seat widths range from about 22 to 33.5 inches depending on the model, plus arms of roughly 6 to 14 inches. Row widths come from CinemaTech's drawings for your configuration.

In a dark dedicated theater, a 4K laser projector and acoustically transparent screen give a bigger image and hidden speakers. In bright media rooms, a large display, LED wall or ambient light rejecting screen is often better.

Most dedicated theaters start at 7.2.4. Larger, multi-row rooms benefit from 9.4.6 with more subwoofers and overhead speakers. We design the layout around your seating.

No. Treatment controls sound inside the room. Soundproofing, or isolation, keeps it from escaping. Isolation is built into the construction, and treatment such as CinemaTech's Acoustic Room System is installed on the finished walls.

Yes. Fiber optic starfields are built into acoustic ceiling panels with a light engine outside the room, and they dim with the rest of the lighting when the film starts.

As a planning guide, luxury media rooms in New England typically run $60,000 to $150,000 installed, dedicated private cinemas $150,000 to $400,000, and reference cinemas $400,000 and up. Your builder's construction work is separate. The Design Services Program produces an itemized proposal for your room.

A dedicated private cinema in an existing home typically takes four to nine months from the first meeting to opening night. Design and drawings come first, seating is built to order, and installation, acoustics and calibration take two to four weeks on site.

Our media room projects typically start around $60,000 installed and private cinemas around $150,000. The consultation is the best way to see what your room needs.

No. General construction such as framing, isolation, drywall, HVAC and electrical is priced by your builder from the drawings. Our proposal covers design, seating, acoustics, technology and installation.

Yes. Boston Automations designs, installs and calibrates the projector or display, the screen, the Dolby Atmos sound system, lighting, shades, networking and one-touch control, and supports the system after opening night.

We calibrate the system, train your family and stay on as your support team. Remote monitoring lets us diagnose many issues without a visit.

Yes. We plan ferry freight and seasonal schedules for Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard and support seasonal homes remotely between visits.

Our design studio is at 83 Morse St, Unit 8H in Norwood, Massachusetts, and we serve homes across Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire.