Advice needed on renovations

[Mundu]

We're finally getting the house sorted. 3 bedroom semi detached. We've got a basic idea of what we want but I'm basically trying to get some specifics sorted.

Getting the oak skirting ripped out completely on ground floor. Covered in 3 layers of paint and as I want the flooring fitted with no beading there is no other way. Wouldn't mind them being sanded down but we're also relocating all sockets which for some reason are fitted in the skirting boards. We won't be able to put them back on as they end up cracking when taken off.

Walls being plastered, ledges sanded down, front room will become one with back room and kitchen (two walls knocked through). We are still considering getting some French doors in a floating wall due to sound issues from the kitchen. Back room door will be covered up.

Kitchen doors being replacing and ceiling put in as well as new worktop surface, splash back, floor and sink.

All doors being replaced. I wanted to sand the old doors down but there is an issue as one of the doors upstairs is different. The handles are also higher up than I would like and I would them lightly lower down.

This is without considering av requirements.

I want to be able to stream music into the kitchen and downstairs living room from my pc. I would also like to do the same for my films using my pc upstairs as a nas.

I'm guessing having some cat5 in the skirting would be a good idea along with some coax for my virgin moem with is currently stapled above the skirting. I'm just not sure of where sockets should go and how many runs are needed ect.

I'll also need some speaker cable for a future 5.1 setup in the front living room and will probably have a hole in the chimney for a plasma when my CRT finally dies. main problem with this is that the chimney is slightly in front of the living room door so the lcd would have to be at and angle. Obviously this wouldn't be ideal for the surround sound I'm guessing.

Idealy I would like the kitchen to have a speaker built in to the ceiling and able to play dab radio and have access to my music collection.

I'm not sure but any suggestions ideals would be very welcome as I just need to get an idea of what I want specifically.

[stevep360]

I've just redone my kitchen and installed some ceiling speakers. i have a mc and all i did was run the speakers back to the loft, where they are powered by an amp and an airport express linked to my mac. I now have full access to my itunes from there.

[Mundu]

Ideally I would like my mum to be able to control the music with a remote of some sort. I'm assuming it would be best for this to be wired to the front room.

I'm assuming we will have a lcd on an arm, which would be pulled out as the sofa won't be directly in front of it as the door is there. Really not sure where I should put speaker outlets and Ethernet outlets because of this issue.

The virgin cable comes into the house from here so I could either keep the modem and router downstairs and run all the Ethernet cables to this room rather than running a coax cable into my room. Although I've just recently cancelled the second box in my room I may want another one in the future.

[Mundu]

so wall was getting knocked through but we've delayed it. Seems we're not sure if we want a bigger gap and how this wall would be partitioned if we wanted to divide the spaces temporarily. Perhaps we shouldn't have knocked that wall down now, but mother is adamant.

Here's the wiring diagram Ive come up with. I'll probably just add loads more cat5 after reading posts on here. Not sure if it's worth getting cat6. Cheapest I've seen cat5 is 100m for £35ish from screwfix.

Also can't get spaces taken out for speakers as I'm not sure what I'll be getting in the future. May just take out the space in the chimney for an LCD in the future and cover the area with some kind of heat proof material incase we wanted a fire in the future.