Custom Installation for Home Theaters
According to the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing (ILHM), a trade group for high-end real estate brokers, more than nine million households in the United States now boast a net worth of $1 million or more, excluding their permanent residences. And these people don’t want to live in just any old house. These households include gyms, home theaters, deluxe bathrooms with saunas and whirlpools and dedicated whole house systems integrating technologies.
Susan Ganden, who has sold homes in Naperville, a western suburb of Chicago, since 1988 and is also a certified luxury home marketing specialist, notes that almost 200 homes are listed in the city at $1 million or more. “Many of the local luxury homes are located in downtown, where multi-million dollar homes have burst out of the footprints left by teardowns.”
Barrett’s Home Theater’s team of designers is all too familiar with the luxury customer and applying the skills necessary for custom installation and works closely with these clients to educate them on the process that is involved with integrating technologies into their home. Everything from equipment selection, to wiring to swatch choices is included in the detailed layouts and blueprint. Developing relationships with builders and architects in the early stages of the process is critical to designing the best home theater.
An effective home theater system integrates custom installation for control systems to make operations simple for the entire family. Joe Barrett, president of Barrett’s Home Theater recommends Crestron, leaders in advanced control and automation technologies for commercial businesses and luxury homes.
In addition Crestron, featured in Barrett’s Home Theater’s showrooms, offers many energy conservation product solutions. Customers have custom installation options when considering a vast amount of environmental control products which could offer a significant energy cost savings to the client, says Brian Perreault, general manager of Barrett’s Home Theater. This is something the custom salesmen at Barrett’s Home Theater are starting to incorporate into their presentation when discussing not only Crestron, but ENERGY STAR electronics with their clients.
By Dianne Barrett
