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.

In 2019 I rebranded as Cinemaworks and narrowed focus completely. One discipline: home cinema design and installation, done properly. Rooms that perform - films and box sets experienced as they should be.

Specialising forced a rigour that generalist practice doesn't demand. I work to CEDIA's RP22 standard - the global recommended practice for immersive audio design - and helped write it. I hold all three higher-level CEDIA certifications, was the first globally to receive the top-level Member of Excellence designation, and won CEDIA's Best Home Cinema award in 2025. I co-host the Home Cinema Design Podcast and sit on the international working group that develops the standards.

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.