Case study

    Knightsbridge

    An existing home adapted for work, entertainment and everyday control

    When the owners bought this three-storey waterfront home, they wanted to build on its existing technology and bring television and sound into spaces that had never been wired for it. The result is a retrofit that works with the home rather than against it.

    Covered balcony at Knightsbridge with two woven armchairs and a glass balustrade, looking over the canal to a moored boat and homes across the water.

    Location

    Knightsbridge

    Home

    Three-storey concrete waterfront home

    Scope

    Whole-home technology retrofit

    Control

    Control4 with retained C-Bus lighting

    The systems at Knightsbridge

    Lighting control

    C-Bus integrated with Control4, extended to the gazebo

    Home offices

    Control4 tabletop touchscreens with room-to-room intercom

    Gate intercom

    Answered from either office

    Entertainment

    Kitchen television, Sonos sound in the entertainment room and Foxtel to every zone

    Wi-Fi and network

    Refreshed throughout the home

    Media room

    70-inch television, prewired for 7.2.4 Dolby Atmos

    The waterfront side of the Knightsbridge home at dusk, three storeys lit from within, with a pool, timber deck and spa in front.
    C-Bus lighting across all three levels.

    01

    Working with the existing home

    Concrete floors made the retrofit demanding. Every new cable run between levels meant investigating the pathways and wiring already in place, adding new data and coaxial cabling where access allowed and reusing existing runs where it did not.

    The home's C-Bus lighting was kept and integrated with Control4 rather than replaced. Electrical and technology work ran together, and new Control4 lighting control brought the outdoor gazebo into the system.

    02

    Practical control in two home offices

    The owners worked from separate offices, down a corridor and around a corner from each other. A Control4 tabletop touchscreen in each office puts lighting control at the desk and connects the two rooms by intercom.

    The same screens answer the front gate, with the old analogue intercom replaced by a modern system.

    Covered outdoor gazebo at dusk with recessed downlights, outdoor lounge and dining furniture beside the pool.
    The gazebo, now included in the home's lighting control.

    03

    Entertainment across the home

    Television was added to the kitchen, and the front entertainment room gained a television with a Sonos soundbar and subwoofer. Foxtel now reaches every television zone, carried by a refreshed Wi-Fi and network installation.

    Kitchen with a concrete-look island and four black stools, with a television on the stone wall at the far right.
    The kitchen, with a television on the stone wall.
    Living room with a cream sofa, two green armchairs and a wall-mounted television with soundbar, opening to the waterfront.
    A living area opening to the waterfront.

    04

    A television room with a future cinema in mind

    In the media room, the old projection screen made way for a 70-inch television. Behind the walls, the room was prewired for a future 7.2.4 Dolby Atmos cinema, with provision for projection and a motorised screen.

    When the home went to market in 2020, that provision was in place for the next owner to take further.

    Media room with deep blue walls and curtains, a cream sectional sofa, an orange armchair and a backlit ceiling tray.
    The media room, prewired for a future 7.2.4 Dolby Atmos cinema.

    Knightsbridge shows how a considered retrofit can work with what a home already has, and leave it ready for what comes next.

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