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While it's only a one-story bungalow, this house is loaded with useful and efficient electronic features.

By Steven Castle
Photos courtesy of Crestron Electronics
When your new home is a one-story bungalow, you start thinking about maximizing your space. "The owner liked the concept of having technology in the house but also wanted it to be easy enough for his wife to use," says Anthony Lobo, cofounder of Definitive Sound, a Toronto-area custom electronics company. "It was also important to hide a lot of the equipment." The result is a convenient whole-house controlled lighting and audio system, a data network linking two home offices and other areas, and a comfortable and unobtrusive high-end media room, all of which maximize the available space and functions of the electronics involved. The homeowners can plug in a laptop in various locations to share files, call up CDs from their music collection or MP3s from their computers anywhere in their home, check the video from the front-door camera, and even monitor the lighting and the temperature in other rooms. See this slide show
EQUIPMENT LIST
Kitchen:
Crestron CT-1000 ColorTouch 3.8-inch touch panel
Sonance 622TR 6.5-inch in-ceiling speakers (2)

Dining room:
Crestron CNX-B12 12-button keypad
Sonance 622TR 6.5-inch in-ceiling speakers (2)

Main floor office:
Crestron CNX-B12 12-button keypad
Sonance 622TR 6.5-inch in-ceiling speakers (2)

Master bedroom:
Crestron CT-1000 ColorTouch 3.8-inch touch panel
Crestron CNIRGW infrared gateway
Sony KV32FS100 32-inch flat-screen TV
Sony DVPNS315SM single-disc DVD, silver
Sony SLV-N88 VHS VCR, silver
Sonance 622TR 6.5-inch in-ceiling speakers (2)
Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speaker system
Integra CHAD remote control

Front door/hall:
Crestron CNX-B12 12-button keypad
Netmedia SCE2 indoor/outdoor color camera

Main hall:
Crestron CNX-B12 12-button keypad

Family room:
Sony KP46WT510 46-inch CRT rear-projection TV
Sonance 622TR 6.5-inch in-ceiling speakers (2)

Basment office:
Crestron CNX-B12 12-button keypad
Sonance 622TR 6.5-inch in-ceiling speakers (2)

Basement library/cigar room:
Crestron CNX-B12 12-button keypad
Mission bookshelf speakers (2, customer-supplied)

Basement kitchen:
Crestron CNX-B12 12-button keypad

Basement hall:
Crestron CNX-B12 12-button keypad

Basement home theater:
Pioneer Elite PRO-720HD 64-inch 16:9 CRT high-definition rear-projection TV
Integra DTR-7.3 THX surround-sound receiver
Integra DPS-5.3 Single-disc DVD/CD player
Sony SLV-N99 VHS VCR, black
Panamax Max 5300 power surge suppressor and line conditioner, 11 outlets
Snell Acoustics K.5mk2 6.5-inch bookshelf monitor (2)
Snell Acoustics CR.5mk2 center channel speaker
Snell Acoustics AMC360 5.5-inch in-wall speaker
Snell Acoustics QBX Sub 10-inch 100-watt powered subwoofer, black
Crestron AV2 control system
Crestron ST-1700C 6-inch LCD wireless touch panel
Crestron CNTBLOCK 8 port network terminal block
Transparent audio/video cables
Middle Atlantic racking system
Whole-House audio/video system
Crestron CNX-PAD8 audio distribution processor
Niles SI-1230R system integration amplifier
Escient Tunebase 200 CD management system
Sony CDP-CX455 400-disc CD changer
Panamax Max 5300 power surge suppressor
Transparent audio/video cables
Crestron Cresnet cable

Whole house lighting:
Crestron CAEN-7X2 automation cabinet
Crestron PAC2 automation control system
Crestron CLX-1DIM8 8-zone, 1-circuit dimmer (7)
Crestron CLT-1DIM8 termination block (7)

Networking:
Open House H236A 36-inch enclosure
Open House H36A 36-inch enclosure cover
Open House H619 master hub
Open House H838BID CATV or antenna to 8 TVs


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