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Installation of the Year Awards 2009 - Best Whole-House Installation
Best Whole-House Installation
Bliss Home Theaters and Automation Inc. of Westlake Village, Calif.
The Big Show
With the push of one button, this home shows off everything it can do. And it can do a lot.
Installation of the Year Awards 2009 - Best Innovation Installation
Best Innovation Installation
Cineramax of Miami, Fla.
Reinventing the Wheel
Commercial cinema and home theater come together like never before in this amazing private screening room.
True Blue Home Theater
A new addition designed for lap swimming morphs into this nautically-inspired home theater.
The “six degrees of separation” phenomenon is happening among Home Entertainment’s readers and home-theater aficionados. Some owners of the private screening rooms that have graced the magazine’s pages actually know one another.
A case in point is the couple who built this contemporary movie space, nestled within a woodsy family compound in New York’s Adirondack Mountains.
Masterfully Modern Custom Installation
A contemporary home with 11,500 square feet of indoor/outdoor living space is built for entertaining.
Interior designers Sam Ewing and Gail Winn discuss the details.
Masterful and Modern - CEDIA Award Winner
2009 CEDIA Electronic Lifestyles Award Winner
Best Large Home Theater: Overall Winner
Electronic Systems Consultant: La Scala Home Cinema + Integrated Media—Vancouver, Canada
If a residential electronic systems consultant is so bold to offer a customer-service hotline 24/7—and a return phone call within 15 minutes—the firm is either crazy or confident. Or a little of both.
High Style and High Tech Custom Installation
A New York business exec brings home the look of a favorite golf club as the setting for his elite A/V toys.
It’s not often that the decor of an exclusive golf club becomes inspiration for a private residence.
Such was the case, though, when a New York businessman and jazz aficionado found himself enamored with the lofty, masculine and streamlined atmosphere of Long Island’s East Hampton Golf Club.
Green Home Theater
Guilt-Free HT: Solar panels help get your theater off the grid.
All across the consumer electronics industry, manufacturers are looking for ways to make their products more energy-efficient. Power reduction is a great goal, but let’s talk about power generation.
If you could create enough clean energy to power all of your A/V components, then you could spend less time fretting over individual watts and more time enjoying the fruits of your theater’s labor.
Country-style Modernism Custom Installation
In the 20 years this home took to design and build, the architecture and technology become more modern.
In 1987, the owner purchased 42 acres to grow citrus in an agricultural community north of Los Angeles. Postmodern architecture was all the rage, so the owner hired Zoltan E. Pali to design a Georgianstyle residence.
The young architect, a disciple of the Case Study modernists, was just starting out on his own.
In the 20 years between the original drawings and full completion, both men, and the home, evolved in a variety of ways.