The room nobody sees: planning the equipment room
Where the equipment lives decides how quiet the rest of the house can be. On placing, cooling, powering and servicing the rack room, decided at framing.

Belle Haven, Greenwich, CT
Belle Haven is a private peninsula on Greenwich Harbor, laid out from 1884 as the town's first planned residential park. Its Victorian summer houses and later estates face the water on three sides.
In short · Belle Haven
Elevated Integration designs and installs Savant control, lighting and shading, outdoor audio and home theater for estates in Belle Haven, the private peninsula on Greenwich Harbor, from our office in Armonk. Main house, pool house and grounds run on one network and one system, and the historic houses are retrofitted without disturbing them.
Wealthy New York families built summer houses here from the 1880s onward, around the Belle Haven Club, which opened in 1889 at the southern tip. Today the peninsula is a private association with its own gate, and the houses range from restored Victorians and English country manors to new waterfront estates.
Work in Belle Haven is estate work. A main house, a pool house and grounds on one network and one Savant system; lighting and shading designed with the architect and the interior designer; outdoor audio and lighting that can live on the water. In the historic houses, it is careful retrofitting that leaves the woodwork and plaster as they were.
Discretion matters here as much as anywhere we work. We arrange access through the association ahead of time, keep the work tidy, and never talk about whose house it is.
Elsewhere in Greenwich
A fifteen-seat private cinema under a gold-leaf dome, with the sound and picture designed, installed and calibrated by our team.
Architecture
Shingle-style and Queen Anne summer houses from the first decades of the park, English country manors and Colonial Revival estates, and new houses built to the water. The old houses deserve a retrofit nobody notices.
Lifestyle
Boats at the dock, summers at the club, a few minutes from Greenwich Avenue. A house that is ready on arrival, grounds lit for the evening, and a cinema or listening room for when the weather turns.
What Belle Haven asks for
One Savant system across the main house, guest house and grounds, with scenes set for how the family lives.
Explore →Lighting designed with the architect, with keypads finished to the millwork and light that follows the day.
Explore →Coastal Source audio and lighting along the water, built for salt air and hidden in the planting.
Explore →Dedicated theaters and media rooms, designed and calibrated by the team behind Rooster Hill Cinema.
Explore →Landscape lighting in Belle Haven
In Belle Haven, we light the house from the water and the lawn down to it, in layers, with solid brass fixtures that weather to a patina and disappear by day.
Across Belle Haven
and across the Belle Haven peninsula.
Nearby: Greenwich · Riverside · Old Greenwich · Cos Cob · All of Greenwich & Fairfield County
Questions
From the Journal
Where the equipment lives decides how quiet the rest of the house can be. On placing, cooling, powering and servicing the rack room, decided at framing.
Both can run a 10,000 square foot house well. How they differ on energy, lighting, voice and service, and how to decide for a new build in Westchester or Fairfield.
Figures from our own projects: dedicated theaters from $35,000 to $1.5 million, most near $150,000. What moves the number, and how long it takes.
What we bring to Belle Haven
Let's talk about the home and the system it deserves.
More on how we think about the work. Read the Journal →