Author page: Nancy Klosek

Connected Home

Connected Home in the Desert

This new home in the desert environs of La Quinta, Calif., was designed as a vacation retreat for the residents. The El Segundo, Calif. integration firm Signals Audio/Video was originally called upon to install only televisions and speakers everywhere, but Jesse Howe, Signals A/V president, explained how that quickly changed. After the owners visited his showroom and a nearby home…

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Technology

Integrated Technology on a Luxury Yacht

New Gretna, N.J.-based Atlantic Marine Electronics (AME) is a master at picking just the right spots in luxury yachts to place the latest in connected-home electronics and technology. As John Krug, senior technician, Engineering & Support for AME, a wholly owned subsidiary of Viking Yachts, explained it, that knack is a necessary skill, when you need to fit electronics designed…

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Technology

Technology with Transparency 

Integrators are used to being asked by clients concerned with preserving a home’s aesthetics to hide the workings of their technology gear as much as possible when doing installations. Making it all “disappear” was a double challenge, though, in this unusual, glass-walled home in Upstate New York. It is owned by its producer, an engineer with several patents on glass…

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home theater

A Budget-Minded Home Theater

The most important aspect of this budget-minded theater, executed by Canadian integrator Acoustic Interiors, is what you can’t see in the finished product.  A great deal of work went into keeping sound inside this room. The client felt it was key to spend a fair portion of an admittedly modest product on sound isolation, so the team at Acoustic Interiors,…

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Lighting That Celebrates Architecture   

“Practical” and “beautiful” were the words used by homeowners to task Ada, Mich.-based firm TruMedia Home to handle the technology integration aspects of their new property, situated on a remote 40 acres that overlooks extraordinarily stunning scenery. According to TruMedia co-principal Amanda Wildman, “it was important when we curated the products to keep that in mind — and why we…

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