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Q. Can you recommend a swivel wall mount for the new flat panel I’m buying for my bedroom? I have a bed in one corner, and a sitting/reading area with chairs on the other side. - Charles, St. Louis, MO A. The simple answer is a mount with an articulating arm. There are several companies that make these products and most are very similar. Chief, Omni and Peerless to name a few. All give the ability to rotate the TV and see it in both… View this story
TV Mounts • Bedroom • Ask a Pro

What’s on your calendar today? Will you be driving to the airport for a business trip? Are you taking the day off to catch up on errands? Will you be hosting a dinner party or spending the evening on your own? Maybe you’ll be going to a friend’s for a backyard barbeque later on. No matter what’s happening in your life, the master suite is the place where you get prepared, whether that means donning a suit and tie or steaming away in the shower.… View this story
Multiroom Audio • Multiroom Video • Home Control Systems • Lighting Control Systems • Bedroom • Multiroom AV • Home Control • Info and Answers

When you have 40,000 square feet in your home, it’s easy to get lost. Good thing this Cleveland-area homeowner typically spends most of his quality time in one particular place. With all the fixings this master suite contains, you can’t help but unwind there. The suite features his-and-hers bathrooms, a main bedroom and a sitting room, all with access to home automation, distributed audio and distributed video systems. All of the rooms have a television, but none of the setups are your everyday wall-mounted flat-panel… View this story
Multiroom Audio • Bathroom • Bedroom • Home of the Year Awards 2008 • Multiroom AV • Cool Homes • Slideshows

How could you not want to wake up here? Not only does this bedroom suite have a panoramic view of Long Island Sound, but it also has a 42-inch plasma TV that descends from a hiding spot in the ceiling, touchscreen control over the whole house, music through a whole-house audio system, an adjoining sitting room/office and a bath to die for. The owners of this Connecticut coastal home wanted to maintain their view of the outdoors with shades that silhouetted the water when closed.… View this story
Shades and Blinds • Bedroom • Home of the Year Awards 2008 • Home Theater • Enhancements • Cool Homes • Slideshows

When your entire house stands as a work of art, you don’t want electronics cluttering the view—even if it’s a sleek-looking 65-inch plasma screen. For these London, Ontario, homeowners, the massive fireplace concealing that plasma TV receives as many oohs and ahs as the big screen itself. And that’s just one of many eye-bulging views in this ultramodern home. Certain building restrictions in the area were lifted when the neighborhood developer moved out of town a couple of years ago, relates Rick Ho of electronics… View this story
Plasma • Shades and Blinds • Bedroom • Living Room • Media Room • Rec/Play Room • Home of the Year Awards 2008 • Home Theater • Multiroom AV • Cool Homes • Slideshows

Nothing quite says ‘wow factor’ like being able to watch TV through your bathroom mirror. Yes, it might also say ‘excess’ but it’s still pretty cool, and it’s a very sleek way to have an LCD in your large contemporary-designed master bathroom. Wisconsin manufacturer Seura offers up a line of television mirrors designed to incorporate LCD TVs, and actually uses its mirror technology for smaller displays in bathrooms as well as larger mirrors that can go on any wall as decoration and house traditional-size LCDs.… View this story
Displays • LCD • Furniture and Mounts • TV Mounts • Location • Bathroom • Bedroom • Enhancements • Product News

Design and simplicity were the inspirations behind this whole-house installation in Indiana. Involved in the project during construction, Tri-Phase Technologies was able to install a framing system behind the fireplace in this roomy master bedroom suite—to support both the 42-inch Runco TV and the VisionArt masking system that hides the TV when it’s not in use. At the buzzer of the Pacers’ game, or when the movie has ended for the night, the VisionArt rolls a canvas of water lilies over the screen to complement… View this story
Bedroom • Home Theater • Cool Homes

As parents there is hardly a bigger concern than always worrying about the safety and health of our children. Especially when they are babies and we wish we could be next to them 24/7. SecurityMan has eased our worries a little bit with the latest version of its PalmWatch monitoring system, the PalmWatch III. You don’t even need to turn the light on to check on baby in the crib—the product features night vision so you can watch your little one sleeping away while you’re… View this story
Location • Bedroom • Safety and Security • Remote Monitoring • Surveillance • Security • Enhancements • Product News

For manufacturers it’s tough to get better PR coverage than being spotlighted on a television show. Auralex Acoustics recently had such an opportunity for its involvement in a rebuilding project on an episode of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” in November. The acoustics company was one of many used for the renovation of a New Jersey family’s home. New York installer Dale Pro Audio recommended Auralex’s products for the bedroom of the family’s oldest son, who wants to be a DJ/musician and financially help his… View this story
Furniture and Mounts • Acoustic Treatments • Home Theater Accessories • Location • Bedroom • Home Theater • Audio • Product News

Recently, I spent a week with my parents. If that wasn’t horrific enough, I spent every single night in a dark room with no TV. Oh the horror! Instead of cheesy MTV shows and QVC causing my sleepless nights, I was instead lying awake, staring at shadows, dreaming about something that looks a lot like the Hollandia Platinum-Luxe Elite TV bed. Born Rich says the unit has a retractable 32-inch Sony Bravia HDTV as part of the footboard. If you’re super tall, don’t worry about… View this story
HDTV • CD Players • Docks & Cradles • DVD Players • Bedroom • Weird Stuff • Home Control • Product News

Don’t have room for a nightstand TV in your bedroom? Don’t want to even clutter a wall by mounting a flat-panel TV in there? Hey, you can store a TV under your bed just like a box of old clothing. We told you about this crazy Underbed Lift from MK 1 Studio way back in January, but now it is ready to officially launch and there’s an exclusive U.S. distributor as well. The Underbed Lift can hide a 50-inch flat-panel TV, as well as components… View this story
Displays • Flat Panel • Furniture and Mounts • TV Mounts • Location • Bedroom • Miscellaneous • Weird Stuff • Enhancements • Product News

Every night in my house, there is a massive pillow fight. It’s not the schoolgirl tussle that many of you may be picturing. It’s a fight between my husband’s snoring and a slew of pillows… the ones over his head, the ones over mine. Instead of fighting with his pillows, or possibly his spouse, Daryoush Bazargani built himself a better pillow. Reuters says that this professor of computer science at the University of Rostock invented a pillow that can help you stop snoring. It doesn’t… View this story
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