pompeydean
Established Member
Having seen the various projects on here over the last few years, I am finally in possession of a project of my own! I'm hoping that at least some of what I've read has stuck, and that I'll be able to replicate some of it!
We have recently completed on a 3 bed detached bungalow, and plan to rip everything out and start again. We are aiming to extend to the rear and up into the loft, renewing everything throughout as we go.
My aim is to get the whole place networked for AV and as 'future proof' as possible.
Here it is:
Layout:
The room sizes are good as they are - lounge is 4.5m x 4m (15' X 13') if that helps with perspective - but the layout will change to give us more space.
Everything is really dated inside, the lounge carpet had a delivery note attached to the underneath with a date of 1970 on it!!!
We initially wanted to extend 3.5m out the back, but due a problem drain and the distance between us and the property behind - we can only extend a maximum of 1.5m. It means that what we hoped would become a 4 bedroom property will now have to remain as a 3 bed. Oh well!
Here are the plans:
The cupboard I have circled is going to be a central hub / node zero for all AV and networking gear. I'm planning to buy a 19" rack to house everything, although I've never done anything like this before so I'll be trawling the forums looking for advice!
The gear I'm expecting to be in the rack will be:
2x SKY boxes
PS4
HTPC
Pioneer AVR
Synology NAS
HDBaseT matrix (thanks to Seb @Aclass Technology )
Switch
Patch Panel
Sonos Connect Amp (possibly)
And anything else that I hear about along the way!
Fingers crossed it all goes to plan!
We have recently completed on a 3 bed detached bungalow, and plan to rip everything out and start again. We are aiming to extend to the rear and up into the loft, renewing everything throughout as we go.
My aim is to get the whole place networked for AV and as 'future proof' as possible.
Here it is:
Layout:
The room sizes are good as they are - lounge is 4.5m x 4m (15' X 13') if that helps with perspective - but the layout will change to give us more space.
Everything is really dated inside, the lounge carpet had a delivery note attached to the underneath with a date of 1970 on it!!!
We initially wanted to extend 3.5m out the back, but due a problem drain and the distance between us and the property behind - we can only extend a maximum of 1.5m. It means that what we hoped would become a 4 bedroom property will now have to remain as a 3 bed. Oh well!
Here are the plans:
The cupboard I have circled is going to be a central hub / node zero for all AV and networking gear. I'm planning to buy a 19" rack to house everything, although I've never done anything like this before so I'll be trawling the forums looking for advice!
The gear I'm expecting to be in the rack will be:
2x SKY boxes
PS4
HTPC
Pioneer AVR
Synology NAS
HDBaseT matrix (thanks to Seb @Aclass Technology )
Switch
Patch Panel
Sonos Connect Amp (possibly)
And anything else that I hear about along the way!
Fingers crossed it all goes to plan!
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