Kent is home to Imagine This. From our base and showroom in Tenterden, we design, install and support sophisticated home technology for properties throughout the county.
Our work ranges from dedicated home cinemas and high-performance listening rooms to intelligent lighting, motorised shading and fully integrated smart homes. Every system is individually designed around the property, the people who will use it and the experience they want to create.
The best home technology should complement the architecture and make everyday life simpler. Lighting, entertainment, climate, security, shading and networking should work together naturally, without filling the home with unnecessary controls or complexity.
Imagine This brings these elements together under one technically accountable team. We consider the complete system from the outset, coordinate the necessary infrastructure and carefully document every detail before installation begins.
This integrated approach is equally valuable when designing technology for a new home, undertaking a substantial renovation or bringing an established system up to date.
A well-designed smart home gives you simple, intuitive control over the technology around you. Lighting, heating, audio, television, security, blinds and curtains can be brought together in an interface designed around the way your household lives.
As an experienced Crestron integrator, we create tailored control systems that are powerful behind the scenes but straightforward to operate. Individual rooms can work independently, while whole-home scenes allow several systems to respond together at the touch of a button.
Our work can also include robust home networks, Wi-Fi, CCTV, access control, video distribution and integration with environmental or building-management systems.
Lighting has an enormous influence on the appearance, atmosphere and usability of a home. We design and install Lutron lighting control systems that make it easy to create the right setting for different rooms, activities and times of day.
Carefully programmed scenes can transform the home for entertaining, dining, relaxing or watching a film, while discreet keypads replace rows of conventional switches. Lighting control can also help manage energy use and provide the reassuring appearance of occupancy when the property is unoccupied.
Our team can work alongside your architect, interior designer and lighting designer to ensure that the controls, fittings and electrical infrastructure are properly coordinated from the earliest stages.
Imagine This has an international reputation for home cinema design and engineering. Our principal designer, Guy Singleton, is the creator of The Cinema Designer, professional design software used by cinema specialists around the world.
Every cinema is designed as a complete environment. We consider room geometry, seating positions, viewing angles, acoustic behaviour, sound-pressure levels, speaker placement, projection, lighting, ventilation, interior finishes and control.
Whether you are planning an intimate screening room, a hidden media room or a dedicated high-performance cinema, our team can manage the entire process from concept and technical modelling to installation, calibration and final commissioning.
For clients who care deeply about music, we design high-performance audio systems and dedicated listening spaces in which the room, equipment and installation work together.
A system may be created around a treasured existing collection or designed entirely from the ground up. We consider loudspeaker positioning, room acoustics, equipment support, power, network infrastructure and intuitive access to physical and streamed music.
High-quality audio can also be integrated discreetly throughout the home, allowing music to be enjoyed without compromising the architecture or interior design.
Motorised shading can control glare, protect furnishings, improve privacy and help manage heat while becoming an elegant part of the interior.
We design and install premium Lutron and Crestron shading systems, including roller blinds, curtains and solutions for more challenging windows and skylights. A broad choice of sheer, privacy and blackout fabrics allows each treatment to be selected for its practical purpose as well as its appearance.
Shades can operate individually, as part of a lighting scene or automatically according to time of day and the needs of the household.
Kent has an unusually varied collection of properties, from contemporary new builds and substantial family homes to listed buildings, period houses, rural estates and coastal properties.
Each presents different technical and architectural considerations. A new-build project offers the opportunity to plan infrastructure from the beginning, while a period or listed property may call for particularly discreet installation and careful coordination with the building fabric. Existing homes may require creative retrofit solutions that minimise disruption and preserve finished interiors.
Our role is to find the right solution for the property rather than impose a standard system upon it.
Home technology is best understood through experience. At our Tenterden showroom and experience centre, you can see intelligent lighting, home cinema, high-performance audio and integrated control working together in carefully designed surroundings.
A private visit provides the opportunity to compare different solutions, explore materials and finishes, and discuss your project with an experienced member of our team without obligation or pressure.
The showroom is also a valuable resource for architects, interior designers and other professionals wishing to explore how technology can be incorporated discreetly within their schemes.
We undertake projects throughout Kent, including Tenterden, Cranbrook, Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge, Sevenoaks, Westerham, Maidstone, Ashford, Canterbury, Faversham, Whitstable, Folkestone, Deal and the surrounding villages and rural areas.
For larger or specialist projects, our involvement often begins well before work starts on site. We can liaise with the wider professional team, prepare detailed technical documentation and ensure that the necessary cabling, equipment spaces and electrical infrastructure are considered at the appropriate stage.
Our responsibility does not end when a system is handed over. Imagine This provides structured aftercare to help keep the home operating as it should.
Depending on the needs of the property, this can include remote monitoring, first-line telephone support, priority reactive assistance, planned preventative maintenance and secure disaster-recovery copies of system programming and configuration information.
Being based in Kent allows us to combine sophisticated technical capability with accessible, personal support from a team that knows both the system and the client.
Explore a selection of home cinema, intelligent lighting and smart home projects completed by Imagine This throughout Kent. Each was individually designed around the property, the client and the way they wanted to live.
Explore an outside lighting control project in this fabulous Kent home.
Explore this high-performance immersive home cinema we created for a client in Kent.
Explore this high-performance listening room created in the home of a Kent client.