Hidden Home Technology designs and installs international award-winning home cinemas, hi-fi listening rooms and smart home systems for houses in Gloucester and the villages around it. In the city we turned a garden room into a dedicated cinema, built around speakers and electronics the owners already loved. We work for homeowners directly and alongside their architects and interior designers.
We design and install complete cinema rooms. The layout, the acoustics, the equipment and the interior are planned together, so the finished room performs well and is a comfortable place to spend an evening.
Custom room design and layout planning
Acoustic treatment and soundproofing
Premium projectors, screens, and audio equipment
Lighting and control designed with the room
Calibration of the picture and sound once the room is finished
For music enthusiasts, we design and install high-performance hi-fi and listening rooms:
Full acoustic treatment down to the low bass region
Custom speaker placement and acoustic tuning
High-end amplifiers and sources for pristine sound
Control through the same system as the rest of the house
Client Quote:
“We recently had Dan install a fabulous Cinema/Music Room for us. They guided us through the many options which would best suit our needs and throughout both Dan and Jordan were extremely professional, friendly and worked with great attention to detail.” — [Nick & Claire, Bath]
Example project: Hi-Fi listening room in Nunney, near Bath
We bring intelligent control to your home, combining convenience, security, ergonomics and style:
Whole-home automation for lighting, climate, and AV
Voice and app-based control
Energy management and smart security integration
Discreet installations that preserve your home’s aesthetic
We transform properties all over Gloucester and the surrounding area: automated lighting, curtains and blinds, integrated audio and video system, entry systems, CCTV — all managed from a single app.
Expertise in Gloucester properties — from Cotswold-stone country houses around Painswick and Stroud to Georgian townhouses in the city centre and Severn-side family homes
Systems designed around the house and the way you live in it
Discreet and professional installation with minimal disruption
Award-winning: four URC Unsurpassed awards for Best International Installation since 2021
A garden-room cinema in Gloucester
The owners already had speakers and electronics they loved. What they needed was a room that would let them perform, so we designed one inside their garden room and built it. We looked after the interior, the lighting and the acoustic treatment, which works down to about 60Hz, and built the floating front wall that gives the room its character. Moving the sofa back by about six inches took six decibels out of a peak at 80Hz, right at the seat the family uses. It is a 7.1.2 Atmos room, calibrated in place. See the Gloucester garden-room cinema
Our founder Dan has designed and installed home technology since 2001 and the company has traded from Bath since 2004. We are a CEDIA member. Get in touch to talk about your house.
Bring serious cinema engineering into your home. Our team designs and installs dedicated rooms with proper acoustic treatment, high-performance projection, and control that works with the rest of the house.
A purpose-built cinema room behaves differently from a living room with a TV in it. Acoustics are designed before equipment is chosen; light is controlled before screens are sized; the result, finished, is a room that disappears the moment the film starts.
Multi-room audio, garden speakers and simple smart-home control discreetly integrated into an open-plan home in Englefield Green, Surrey.
A Cotswolds home cinema set inside a period country house, with whole-house audio kept out of sight everywhere else.
A garden room turned dedicated home cinema in Gloucester. The client supplied their preferred audio kit; we delivered the room around it — interior and lighting design, acoustic treatment effective to ~60Hz, a floating front-wall feature, and a 7.1.2 Atmos layout calibrated in-room with Marantz processing.
Tell us a little about the house and the rooms you have in mind. We aim to reply within one working day.
Dedicated-room projects with a more focused scope typically start from around £35,000 including VAT. That is not a minimum spend for surround sound or hi-fi installed in an existing room, which can cost significantly less. A complete designed cinema room is a different scope: our serious cinema guide is £80,000–£120,000 including VAT, with reference projects around £200,000–£400,000+. Exact inclusions and costs are agreed in your quotation. Whole-home smart systems and hi-fi projects are quoted individually.
Yes. We regularly design discreet systems for older and more characterful homes, including Georgian townhouses and Cotswold-stone properties, with careful attention to the fabric and appearance of the building.
Yes. We work across Gloucester and the surrounding area, including Cheltenham, Stroud, Painswick, Tewkesbury, Cirencester, the Forest of Dean and the wider Cotswolds.
Yes. A garden room can make an excellent dedicated cinema or listening space when acoustics, lighting, ventilation, projection and control are considered from the outset.
Yes. We can bring AV, lighting, blinds, entry systems, CCTV and other home technology into a single, simple control system, using app, remote or voice control where appropriate.
Cinema may be the starting point, but most of our Gloucestershire installations extend to the rest of the house: lighting control, multi-room audio, heating, blinds and security under one roof. See our home automation installers in Gloucestershire page for what a whole-house system includes.
