Case study

    Cypress Terrace

    Music, movies and time together in Palm Beach

    Designed for family life and entertaining across a main house and rear retreat, Cypress Terrace brings music, a dedicated cinema and property-wide communication together through Control4.

    Two-storey Cypress Terrace home and covered cabana overlooking the illuminated pool at dusk.

    Location

    Palm Beach, Queensland

    Scope

    New home and rear retreat

    Control

    Control4 throughout

    The systems at Cypress Terrace

    Home control

    Control4 with touchscreens

    Multi-room audio

    Kitchen, living room, patio and office

    Lighting control

    Control4 lighting

    Intercom

    Between the house and rear retreat

    Gate answering

    From the rear retreat

    Home theatre

    Projection and screen, integrated with existing sound

    Security

    CCTV and access control

    Prewiring

    Ready for a poolside cinema and garden subwoofer

    01

    Music through the spaces where people gathered

    The main living room opens towards outdoor dining, the pool and cabana, with a separate rear retreat adding another place for family and guests. Status supplied the Control4 multi-room audio system, bringing music through the kitchen, living room and outdoor patio, with the office connected as well.

    Living room with grey sofas and a wall-mounted television, opening to outdoor dining and the pool.
    The living room, on the Control4 multi-room audio.
    Covered outdoor dining table beside the pool, with the living-room television visible through open doors.
    Music carries out to the patio and outdoor dining.

    02

    Staying connected across the property

    The pool and entertaining areas sit between the main house and rear accommodation, which made communication an important part of the system.

    A Control4 touchscreen at the rear of the property lets the family talk between areas, and lets anyone in the rear retreat answer the front gate without returning to the main house.

    Living space with a kitchenette, grey sofa, wall-mounted television and soundbar.
    The rear retreat, where the front gate can be answered without returning to the house.

    03

    A cinema that worked with the owners' equipment

    The dedicated theatre created a separate place to settle in for a film. Status supplied the projection and screen system and integrated the cinema with speakers and an amplifier the owners already had.

    Dark home theatre with a large projection screen, wall-mounted speakers, timber wall lining and reclining sofas.
    Projection and screen, integrated with the existing cinema sound.

    04

    Leaving room for more fun

    Status substantially prewired the house, leaving room for ideas the family could take further later.

    One was a projector that would lower from the cabana roof and cast movies across the pool onto the side wall. Wiring was run for that projector, with speaker cable beside and along the top of the large brick wall for a front sound stage.

    Speaker cable also runs underground for a garden-bed subwoofer, inspired by the subterranean subwoofer in Status's home-show demonstration.

    Covered poolside cabana with built-in seating, an outdoor kitchen and ceiling fans beside the main house.
    The cabana, wired for a projector to lower from the roof.

    Cypress Terrace was designed as one property, with entertainment and communication connecting spaces that sit apart.

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