Five lakes, one closet, and the wire that runs between them.
Out of Sight Home Technologies has been putting the equipment where you cannot see it for houses across southern Wisconsin. Here is how the work actually goes, lake by lake.
Lake Pewaukee
The house that got wired during framing
The cheapest smart home is the one where somebody pulled cable before the drywall went up. On Pewaukee we spend a lot of time standing in open stud bays with the builder, marking where a keypad goes and where the run to the patio has to leave the wall. An hour there saves a week of fishing wire later.
Network and Data Infrastructure. Structured cabling, enterprise access points, and a switch that can carry the whole house. Most of what people call a smart home problem is a network problem.
Lake Nagawicka
A basement that had to become a theater
Low ceilings, a sump in the corner, and a stair landing right where the screen wants to be. Theater design in an existing basement is mostly subtraction: find the one wall that works, set the sightlines off the back row, then build the risers and the soffit around what is left.
Custom Home Theater. Room acoustics, sightlines, seating risers, and calibration. We design the room around the screen, not the screen around whatever wall was left over.
Lake Oconomowoc
Nine apps down to one
Most houses out here already have automation. It arrived one device at a time, each with its own app and its own password. The work is not adding more. It is putting a single system over the top so the lights, the audio, and the shades answer to the same keypad.
Smart Home Automation. Lighting, audio, climate, locks, and cameras answering to one interface your family already knows how to use. Built on Control4, programmed by the people who installed it.
My builder wanted someone who would show up at the framing walkthrough with a plan. They did.
Homeowner, Oconomowoc
Lake Geneva
Empty five days a week
A lake house sits alone most of the year. Cameras you can read at night, shades that move on a pattern, and a network that tells you when it drops. Then heat and locks you can set from home before you drive out.
Surveillance and Security. Motion detection, night vision, and remote live feeds. Recorded on site, viewable from anywhere, and framed by someone who walked your property first.
What else goes in
- Motorized ShadesLight on a schedule
- Distributed Audio and VideoSound in every room, sources in one closet
- Lighting ControlScenes, not switches
Book the in-home design consultation
We walk the house, listen to what you actually want, and leave you with a plan and a number. No charge for the visit.