David Kepke, president of Multimedia Resource Group Inc., of Chappaqua, N.Y., believes that there are three pillars for any successful high-performance media room or home theater: room structure, equipment, and power. Sadly, homeowners often see power as a low priority when it comes to their wish list, he says. It’s one of the most misunderstood […]
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Home automation has come a very long way in the last few years. Even the highest of the high-end control companies are creating more affordable solutions as smart home technology advances. “There’s a perception that home automation systems are only for the very rich,” says home systems integrator Todd Anthony Puma, owner of The Source […]
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Ask any interior designer for advice on designing a home theater or media room, and he or she will have three words for you: Hide the equipment. But what some interior decorators don’t know is that there are high-tech products available to them that are as meticulously and stunningly designed as an Eames or Corbusier […]
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Like a black hole, but without the nefarious connotations, this unusual and eye-catching 400-square-foot home theater draws the homeowners in for countless hours of high-style, high-tech entertainment. Along those lines, the visually interesting and innovative “vortex” ceiling served as inspiration for the entire theater.
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There are home remodels and renovations that involve simply taking a home and updating its aesthetic, but for this home renovation absolutely nothing about the original 8,000-square-foot country home was retained. “Everything on the inside and the outside was completely changed,” says Amer Dim, general manager of home systems integration company Casaplex, of Kensington, Md. […]
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You’ve spent a considerable amount of money on a handsome new home theater, complete with comfy theater chairs, a bright, vivid video projector, huge screen, powerful surround-sound system, and all of the of the complementary audio/video components. So when you touch Play, why doesn’t your system sound out-of-this-world amazing? It could be because one of […]
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While gear that is hidden or integrated into the design of the home can be more expensive than just leaving it out in the open, with a little ingenuity, it doesn’t have to be. The owners of this Southern California beach house had 10 TVs they wanted to integrate seamlessly into the relaxed beach cottage aesthetic, but they didn’t want to pay a premium for the effect.
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When your vacation home is a three-story penthouse in New York’s Tribeca district, it’s clear that nothing less than the best will do. The family that occupies this luxurious abode travels from India to spend one month in the Big Apple every summer, and had the resources to make their high-tech home away from home […]
Get the GuideWHILE HIDING TECHNOLOGY is currently the trend in homes, it wasn’t so long ago that showing it off was de rigueur. “A little over a decade ago, the trend was that people who could afford technology preferred to show it off. They weren’t modest about being ostentatious,” says Mark Hernandez of New York City-based electronics […]
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Originally a school auditorium, this beautiful 4,644-square-foot space is now home to a family of four and is equipped with smart home technology and media systems that are so intuitive to use, virtually no schooling is needed. This cavernous structure was transformed into livable areas with a little ingenuity on the parts of the builder […]
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