Consider your backyard as another room of your home and limitless possibilities open. Think of Friday night movies by the pool, or music while reading the morning paper, or lighting that sets the right mood for a romantic dinner under the stars. Take a look at these outdoor spaces and start planning yours!
Home of the Year Awards 2006 · Cool Homes · Slideshows · Outdoors · All topicsWhere you can see a movie and shake your groove thing? We also know this great place to go bowling—in a home!
Home of the Year Awards 2006 · Cool Homes · Slideshows · Rec/Play Room · All topicsTerabytes of music storage, home theaters, an automated wine cellars, a sports rooms, a high-tech patio, a pool and loggia area, a putting green, a bandstand and a tennis court.
Home of the Year Awards 2006 · Enhancements · Cool Homes · Slideshows · All topicsKeep on top of the days activities via a scheduler on the Internet, dance while you make dinner, and keep up-to-date with the news on TV.
Home of the Year Awards 2006 · Cool Homes · Slideshows · Kitchen · All topicsThis family room can entertain people aplenty—and with aplomb.
Screens · Home of the Year Awards 2006 · Entertainment · Cool Homes · Slideshows · All topicsThis house does, along with lots of other goodies.
Home of the Year Awards 2006 · Entertainment · Enhancements · Cool Homes · Slideshows · Home Gym · All topicsThe big game comes alive in this themed theater.
Screens · Home of the Year Awards 2006 · Entertainment · Cool Homes · Slideshows · All topicsThis multipurpose room gets high marks from us.
Home of the Year Awards 2006 · Enhancements · Cool Homes · Slideshows · All topicsThe aesthetic goals for this home theater were to create a simple, elegant, timeless theater that is formal yet very comfortable.
Projectors · Screens · Home of the Year Awards 2006 · Entertainment · Cool Homes · Slideshows · All topicsEven though it’s packed with powerful technology, this home theater stays true to its historic roots.
Projectors · Screens · Home of the Year Awards 2006 · Entertainment · Cool Homes · Slideshows · Basement · All topicsDesigned with a dance floor, a sports bar and a billiards room, this basement is never boring.
Home of the Year Awards 2006 · Entertainment · Enhancements · Cool Homes · Slideshows · Basement · All topicsThis house has a lot of just about everything.
Home of the Year Awards 2006 · Enhancements · Cool Homes · Slideshows · All topicsHome theater, automated lights and a high-tech fish tank.
Home theater, automated lights and a high-tech fish tank.
A new CEA study says that more builders are offering all types of technology.
It’s hard to imagine life without remote controls, but it’s been a long, strange path to the modern incarnation we know and love today.