Tech Living, Clutter-Free and Easy
By Arlen Schweiger
These suburban New York homeowners didn’t let high tech clutter up their contemporary style, but they did let new home controls enhance their daily lives.

Where’s the basement home theater room? What, no 100-inch screen and jazzy theater chairs? There’s a 60-incher in the playroom—but the three teenagers have to share the TV because none of their rooms have one?

These suburban New York City homeowner’s aren’t technophobes or Luddites. They just wanted a way technology could improve their daily living, without taking away from the look of their home.



The house doesn’t have a dedicated theater room, but it boasts several above-average-size displays, three rooms with full surround sound, carefully placed architectural speakers, home automation that includes wireless touchpanels, extensive lighting control and networking that helps feed the whole-house audio.

Working with custom electronics pros, architects and designers who understood the homeowners’ concerns made the influx of technology more palatable—and ultimately more enjoyable.

To See or Not to See?
That question had a simple answer when architect Roz Young of The Young Company discussed entertainment plans and options with the homeowners. They wanted to keep the TVs’ prominence to a minimum, and one solution to that was “out of sight, out of mind.”

Enter the custom electronics (CE) pros, Integrated Electronic Solutions (IES) of White Plains, N.Y., whose work on stealthy plasma screen installations was just one important aspect of this overall home systems solution.

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