One designer, one discipline
I've spent more than twenty years trying to make films feel more real in people's homes. That's still the whole point.
After working for others and honing my craft, I started out by myself in 2014 as Connected Works - smart home, AV, lighting, door entry, what the industry calls custom installation. Good work, and good clients. But the cinema projects were the ones I designed most carefully and was most proud of. In 2018, one of them won CEDIA's Best Media Room. Everything else started to feel like a distraction.

I've spent more than twenty years trying to make films feel more real in people's homes. That's still the whole point.
After working for others and honing my craft, I started out by myself in 2014 as Connected Works - smart home, AV, lighting, door entry, what the industry calls custom installation. Good work, and good clients. But the cinema projects were the ones I designed most carefully and was most proud of. In 2018, one of them won CEDIA's Best Media Room. Everything else started to feel like a distraction.
The room itself isn't the point. It's the evening you had in it - how deeply the film moved you, how long it stayed with you after the credits. The more I'm allowed to engineer for you, the deeper I can push that.
A well-implemented cinema room is also very stable. Install it well, get the data network right, set it up properly, and it just works - uptime in months or years. If something does go wrong, it's always the broadcast box. I'm good, but miracles are beyond me.
WRITTEN BY
Owen Maddock
Owner & designer, Cinemaworks
I've spent twenty years looking for ways to make films feel more real in people's homes.
CEDIA® Member of Excellence, award-winning designer, podcast host, and the one you'll actually work with.
