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The rooms, once the equipment disappears.

Our work is meant to be invisible, which makes it awkward to photograph and easy to underestimate. Here is what it looks like when it is done properly.

Colleyville and University Park, Texas  ·  A/V design partner for Ryan Custom Homes

Custom residence in Colleyville, Texas at dusk with architectural and landscape lighting on
Ryan Custom Homes · Colleyville, Texas

One residence, wired before the walls closed.

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Selected rooms

Through the house.

Great room with the fireplace centered between full-height windows
Great room

Everything in it, nothing you can see.

Display, sources and speakers specified with the architecture rather than added to it. No rack in the room, no speaker you can point at, no wire anywhere a wire would show.

Dedicated theater with a wide projection screen, two rows of black leather recliners and a gray acoustic wall
Dedicated theater

A room built for one purpose.

Four seats, a fixed screen, and the equipment out of sight.

Rear of a white farmhouse-style residence at sunset, pool and spa in a lawn under mature oaks
Outdoor

Landscape pod speakers through the beds and around the pool.

Audio that carries across the whole yard without a speaker you can point at.

Keeping room with a teal built-in wall holding the television, a white tufted sofa and glass doors to the yard
Keeping room

Built in with the cabinetry, not mounted onto it.

Display and sources specified alongside the millwork, so the joinery was built around the equipment.

Primary bedroom with a vaulted shiplap ceiling, television on the wall and French doors to the pool
Primary suite

Wall-mounted flush, cabling in the wall.

Shades and lighting on the same keypad as the rest of the house.

Front elevation of a white limestone residence with steel-framed arched windows and a sunlit front lawn
Private residence · University Park, Texas

Light rooms, and technology that keeps quiet in them.

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Selected rooms

Through the house.

Game room with a large display set into white built-ins, a sectional and bunk beds under a vaulted ceiling
Game room

The one room built to be fun.

Bunk room and game room in one. The display sits in the millwork rather than on it, and the shades bring a bright afternoon down to movie light without anyone leaving the sofa.

Covered loggia with a television over a stone fireplace, outdoor seating and the pool beyond
Loggia

An outdoor room, not a patio.

A television over the fireplace, under a ceiling that keeps the weather off it, and our Outdoor Shades line tucked into the header, rolled up until the sun comes around. The seating faces the pool as easily as the screen.

Rectangular pool and spa with a turf lawn and a fence line of trees behind the house
Pool

A full Coastal Source system, and nothing to see.

Turf, water and a fence line of trees, with a complete Coastal Source audio system hidden in the greenery. Sound reaches every corner of the yard and stops at the fence.

Bright family room with roller shades either side of the fireplace and white furniture on pale oak floors
Family room

Nothing on the floor but furniture.

Shades either side of the fireplace, the display kept in proportion to the room, and every source somewhere else in the house.

White oak kitchen with a marble island, breakfast table and roller shades on the window
Kitchen

Music where the family actually is.

Speakers in the ceiling over the island and the breakfast table, on the same app as every other room in the house.

Study with a walnut desk, two swivel chairs and shades on the windows, seen through a steel door
Study

Quiet, by design.

Shades and lighting from one keypad at the door. The equipment that runs the house is behind another door entirely.

Primary bedroom with a canopy bed and roller shades across a wall of windows
Primary bedroom

The shades are the alarm clock.

Roller shades across the wall of windows, raised on a schedule in the morning and dropped from the bedside at night.

Front elevation of a custom residence in Colleyville, Texas at dusk with exterior lighting on
Ryan Custom Homes · Colleyville, Texas

Front door to back fence, on one system.

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Selected rooms

Through the house.

Media room with blue cove lighting, floorstanding speakers and reclining seating
Media room

Cove lighting, and a speaker layout that suits the room it is in.

A room under a sloped ceiling is a difficult room to do properly. Screen height, speaker placement and the lighting were set together rather than one after the other.

Living room with a glass-walled wine room, white sofa and a television set into gray built-ins
Living room

A display inside the millwork, beside the wine room.

Specified with the cabinetmaker so the screen sits in the joinery rather than on top of it.

Great room with a television over a dark stone fireplace, clerestory windows and a view to the pool
Great room

Above the fireplace, between the glass.

The display sits where the room already wanted a focal point, with the sources out of the room entirely.

Pool and spa with a fountain in front of a white brick house with a covered outdoor living area
Pool and loggia

Covered outdoor living, wired like an indoor room.

Audio and video under the roofline, rated for the weather that gets to it anyway.

Exterior shade lowered across the covered loggia beside the pool, house in white brick with a standing-seam roof
Exterior shades

The loggia closes against the afternoon.

Our Outdoor Shades line across the opening, lowered from the same keypad as the shades inside, so the pool side of the house has a sun setting too.

Exterior shade fabric and a matching screened door in black frames at the corner of the loggia
Exterior shades, detail

Fabric, channel and a door to match.

Where the loggia turns the corner, the motorized shade meets a fixed panel and a screened door in the same fabric and the same black frame. Closed, the three read as one wall; open, the door is the way out to the pool without raising anything. Getting the channels, the hembar and the door frame to land on the same lines is the part of the job that nobody sees and everybody feels.

Rear elevation of a white brick house at dusk with exterior lights on, reflected in a pond
After dark

Architectural lighting across the back of the house.

On a schedule, so it is already on before anyone thinks to ask for it.

The builder relationship

A/V design partner for Ryan Custom Homes.

We are in the drawings before the walls close — sitting with the builder, the architect and the interior designer while there is still time to put the wire where it belongs. That is why the equipment in these rooms is somewhere you are not looking at.

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