A Family Business for Almost Two Decades

For the last 17 years, Living Home Tech ® have striven as a tightknit, hugely ambitious and focused family to forge our way as leaders in the world of home cinema and smart home technologies internationally, across the UK and in places like St. Lucia, Portugal, Marbella and Girona.

Having been nominated for often winning awards, the business has steadily grown. As we head towards two decades in business, we felt now was a good time to shout from the rooftop about what we’ve achieved as a family. Our leadership team brings into play 3 harmonised brothers. Wes as our “visionary”, Wayne, our technical guru, and Luke the gregarious one! The puzzle is completed by our long-term associate Paul.

Living has triumphed over and again with dedication to ensuring every client is heard and is left feeling like they’ve won a kind of jackpot. Every customer feels special, our aftercare is renowned, and this is demonstrated by a returning client base and the respect of industry peers.

We maintain our education game, even working with the industry to write and deliver CPDs, and we consistently innovate our practices to enable the very best designs and project results.

The three Crutcher brothers, director and innovators behind the Living Group.

What is behind the success of Living?

Living was started as a family, and almost 20 years on, it is just as solid, and not least because of our backbone family structure. No one can recreate or emulate that! Our client and associate network are rightly reassured by it, and we are told about the difference it makes by our customers.

Living Home Tech are fully design-led and we were born from a desire to build superior systems for the discerning client. We each have a passion for quality in home cinemas, the very best lighting systems and #smarthome technologies. When we worked as Engineers for other employers, we noticed that others didn’t apply the exacting standards that we expected to see form the design and install processes, and we noticed that products were chosen for reasons regardless of client need. We looked at the marketplace and decided to join forces creating end-to-end design, supply, installation and aftercare provision - something that people could trust and rely on which delivered excellent results.

Reasons for our also growth include Luke writing industry training specifications for the trade associations RIBA and CEDIA, developing our very own Control App and associated software, and being featured more than once on TV’s Grand Designs and Basement Wars!

It is our focus on these areas and consistent ambitious motivations as a crew of brothers that have built Living Home Tech ® to where we are today.

Just one of our Living Home Tech ® bespoke home cinemas.

Why do our customers value us?

Our precise attention to detail shows through and through, and our clients trust our repeat results. We are 100% bespoke. If a client wants something, we make it happen. We may guide and showcase our experience and knowledge to explain why certain products and finishes might be better in the long term for our customers, because we value their investment as much as they do. People come back to us time and time again, over many years. Word of mouth has led to most of our growth, because clients trust us as a family of workers and because of our industry credibility via our Continued Professional Development courses, (CPDs).written with industry bodies CEDIA and RIBA.

Living have been featured on Grand Designs, the Crown estate and the BBC numerous times and are renowned for our bespoke control systems, using proprietary software control for lighting installations, designed and invented by us.

Everything we install is simple to use, and our aftercare service is unrivalled. Other people just don’t work like we do!

Another unique home cinema room project.

A collaborative approach:

We have a squad of children between us, making us hyperaware of how difficult it can be when times are difficult with a family member or child being unwell or experiencing other difficulties in life. This has led us to do a lot of charity work including sponsoring food banks.

Taking a child with a disability to a commercial cinema is normally not an option. Access challenges or simply the fact that bright lights, loud noises and other audience members can interfere with everyone’s viewing enjoyment. We want to make the full cinema experience available and stress-free to families who might not normally get the chance. This realisation led us to working with Julia’s house in Bournemouth and we are supporting them by installing a private cinema via a fantastic organisation called “Together for Cinema”.

We run annual golf days, and 2021’s golf day at Ashley Wood Golf Course raised over £5,000 for Southampton’s Piam Brown Ward which supports families and children with cancer. In addition to the golf day, our charity for the same year would also have benefited from us running up some fairly hefty mountains! But, unfortunately the OMM fundraiser got flooded and one of us got Covid, so the event is rebooked for October 2022!

2022’s Golf day fundraiser is booked for this September, Thursday the 15th at Dudsbury Golf Club and Spa, where the offering is even better as we have overnight facilities and can make a real event of it after the game. A charity awards auction will be held on the night of the 15th and all proceeds will this year be for Breast Cancer Support, another charity close to our hearts.

More community and yet more family; we even have a fourth brother locally who runs an expert carpentry business. His complimentary exacting standards are incorporated into as many jobs as suitable alongside a host of local architects that we have partnerships with. Strong collaborations are key to ongoing success and this mindset is motivational for us all.

Happy golfers at last year’s golf fundraiser event!

Approaching 20 years, you overcome some challenges.

Running a small business always has its peaks and flows, but we have been both determined and fortuitous along the way! However, nothing could prepare any small business for the pandemic. The initial lockdowns had a drastic effect on our business. Suddenly, we could no longer visit people in their homes to either design or install their home cinemas, their lighting or audio-visual systems… it made us stop in our tracks and rethink how we could maintain our hands-on and detail-orientated service to our clientele.

Being the techies we are, we decided to start Virtual Reality design services, and enable both our prospective and current clients’ access their design processes starting and progressing. We now host virtual cinema experiences and cinema demonstrations in addition to our in-person cinema showroom demos, and we additionally offer our designers CPDs online for architects and design professionals to boost their continued professional development points and upskill during the year.

This has led to a better range of service offering, allowing us to assist a wider variety of people more flexibly than ever before.

Here’s to more decades in business

Living Home tech are here to stay and proud of our growing empire. Building on the success of the last 17 years and learning and evolving as we have, 2022 saw the launch of not one extra company, but two!

We are driven by excellence, and we all love our jobs. Listening to our clients and sharing interests with many of them, such as golfing… it made us realise there was a gap in our service offering and we launched Living Golf Sims in March 2022.

We have designed and built a state-of-the-art studio and demo spaces in our group head office in Poole, Dorset. Look at our CGI representation on our social media

Read more about our latest innovations below…

Living Golf Sims

With the British weather being what it is… having an entire world of golf courses in your home and available at the switch of a button can only be a good thing…

Living Golf Sims is all about custom designed golf simulators, providing the ultimate in accuracy, finish, materials and overall design.

A Living Golf Sim provides more than a simple swing room. The entire build and every single piece of technology is tailored to your game, your environment and your play objectives. We incorporate bespoke fabric walls, 20mm luxury grass flooring, double-skin hitting screens and HD graphics to build the basis of golf entertainment rooms and we are the South Coast specialist for GCQuad™ golf simulator technology.

#LivingGolfSims take care of every single element of the build, from design to project managing building works and through to cabling and bespoke carpentry. The entire project is controlled and managed by us, giving you a single point of contact, reassurance and a professionally polished result – #tailormade to you.

Come and visit our state of the art showroom – we can’t wait to see you demo the top drawer in Golf Sim technology to transform your game!

Living Blinds

And then there was just no stopping us! In April came the launch of Living Blinds. We have been installing blinds for some years now as a part of our home automation and smart home designs around the south coast and further afield across Europe. Window treatments are a key element to any the smart lighting and home automation control function in residences and with the growing demand for more of these installs, so, it made sense to offer this specialism as a dedicated offering, as an add-on or in isolation.

In keeping with our values, this brand-new automated blinds offering comes with the reassurance that every blind we install is designed with the accuracy and quality you would expect. Durability, ease of use and longevity, whilst suiting the demands of your home, lifestyle and routine are all considered and interweaved into your finished home blinds installation.

Window treatments are as important as any other finishing touches to your home. They are a necessary function, and yet need to blend into the background and perform upon instant request. Once you’ve had an automated blind, manual just does not cut it! Living Blinds meets this ever-increasing demand.

Trust in our world-leading product selection using brands like QMotion who helped to steer advancements across the USA in leading manufacturers of garage doors and openers pinch resistant sectional joints as well as a revolutionary torsion spring counterbalance system. We choose our providers for their ingenuity, reliability and their ability to be automated through these control systems. We were one of the first partners for QMotion on this side of the pond and bring their products to a new audience.

We offer a full design and specification for your automated blinds, and you can select from almost any fabric or material for your blinds or curtains. We use the world’s smoothest and quietest motor technologies. And we now supply and fit ‘wire free’ automated blinds that use the exact same super quiet motors and that have batteries that last approximately 5 years. Every single #livingblinds installation is backed by our full service and on-site warranty.

Peace of mind with Living Blinds!

Come and visit our state of the art showroom – we are ready and waiting to show you the ultimate in automated blinds technology to transform your rooms.

The right window dressing can really transform a room and make it an easier space to live in.

Do you have questions? Are you planning a development at home?

Ask us about your project today and your your personal demo or consultation: https://www.livinghometech.co.uk/home-cinema-demo-booking