Smart Home, Theater & Security for Frisco Homes

This is the room you pick when one space matters more than the rest of the house. Kitchen music and a patio TV belong on the whole-home page. A cinema, or a family room built around watching, is this one.

Start here if that room is why you called. On a new Frisco or McKinney build, do not pick finishes first. Speaker cable, a screen wall, and acoustic backing (the board and fabric that go in the wall) have to land before paint. Those choices occupy the wall the other three systems would also want.

Disruption is the highest of the four. A dedicated room can mean seating, a raised floor, and blackout. A living-room conversion is quieter: the furniture stays, but you still lock the TV wall before millwork is ordered. If afternoon sun hits that wall, specify lighting and motorized shades with this room. A house controller can wait if you only need a theater remote now. Still place keypad boxes during rough-in (the wiring pass before drywall) so you are not cutting walls later.

Pick lighting when the complaint is the wall of paddle switches, uneven dimming across mixed fixtures, or a room that needs to look different in the morning than it does at dinner. If the complaint is heat and glare through big glass, the shades page is the one that fixes it.

Disruption is the lowest of the six on a finished house. Wireless dimmers swap into existing boxes and battery keypads mount where there is no box, so nothing is opened and every light in the house still works at the end of each day. During construction the wired system goes in with the rough electrical, which is cheaper and leaves more options later.

Lighting stands on its own — no controller in a closet required. It is also the system most whole-home projects start with, because when a Control4 or Savant platform is added later, the scenes you already use become the parts of Goodnight and Away rather than being programmed twice.

Choose this when more than one room needs music or a TV, and no room is becoming a cinema. One living-room screen that also does homework is this page. A bonus room you will never use for anything else is the theater page.

Disruption sits in the middle. You are pulling speaker cable and opening ceiling holes, not building seating or treating walls. On a new Allen or Frisco house, mark every speaker and TV before drywall so one closet can hold this rack next to the controller and the camera recorder. On a lived-in house, finish one area at a time so a TV stays on.

This system shares the same network the cameras use. Shade decisions belong with the living-room TV if afternoon sun hits that wall. The patio and pool are extra zones of this job, not a fifth service. Run outdoor cable before the deck is finished. You can add a dedicated theater later without replacing the kitchen speakers.