The House

Some projects are measured in months. This one was measured in years — five of them, from 2017 to 2023 — because the house was built the way almost nothing is anymore. The exterior is clad entirely in limestone, and so are significant portions of the interior. There is almost no drywall in the building: every wall is finished in wood or stone, every ceiling treated as a surface worth looking at.

For the technology, that was the brief in a single sentence: nothing we installed could be an afterthought, because nothing in this house is.

Technology That Defers to Stone

Wood and stone walls leave no room for plastic. We used Lutron's glass Palladiom keypads throughout — flush, engraved, and finished to complement the materials around them rather than interrupt them.

The ceilings were to stay as clean as possible, so the audio came from Sonance: trimless, small-aperture speakers and subwoofers whose openings match the scale of the lighting apertures. From the floor, the music and the warm-dim downlight read as one quiet system of small circles — you hear the room and see almost nothing.

One System for the Whole Property

A Savant system runs the property as a single instrument: music in twenty rooms, lighting across the house and grounds — including downlights that dim warm, the way candlelight does — the heaters on the patio, the pool and spa, and access at the front gates. One interface, inside and out.

Problems Worth Solving

Two moments from this project say more about the work than any specification sheet.

Security cameras could not be fastened to the home — not one bracket into the limestone. So we worked with the project's metal fabricator to design stainless steel posts and brackets, and the cameras went up around the property instead, on hardware made for this house and no other.

And the equipment rack — the brain of the whole system — was built and wired off-site, then delivered… to an elevator it didn't fit in. It came down the curved limestone staircase by hand. Carefully.