Maximum return

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

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