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.

Riverside, CT
Riverside is the part of Greenwich between Cos Cob and Old Greenwich, with Cos Cob Harbor on one side, Binney Park on the other, and the Riverside Yacht Club, founded in 1888, at its edge on the water.
In short · Riverside
Elevated Integration designs and installs smart home, lighting, shading, audio and home theater systems in Riverside, the Greenwich neighborhood between Cos Cob and Old Greenwich, from our office in Armonk. Near Cos Cob Harbor we plan for sun and salt air; on the larger wooded lots inland, for a network that reaches the whole property.
The neighborhood changes as you go inland. Near the harbor and below the railroad, houses sit close to the water and face the Sound. North of the Post Road, the lots are larger and wooded, and the houses are set further back from the road. Many date from the 1930s and 1940s, and a good number have since been renovated or rebuilt.
That mix decides the work. On the water, we plan for sun on large glass, salt air on anything outside, and equipment kept up and out of reach of a storm surge. Inland, the challenge is usually reach: a Wi-Fi network that covers the house, the pool and the far end of the lawn, and wiring planned during a renovation so nothing has to be added later.
Riverside has its own train station and a short run to the city, and many families here split the week. A good system lets them leave the house set and check it from anywhere, and come home to it ready.
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 and clapboard colonials, Tudors, Georgian revivals and new construction. Near the water, the houses open up to the view, and we shade that glass without closing it. Inland, they spread out, and the network has to spread with them.
Lifestyle
Mornings on the train, summer evenings on the water. Music on the terrace, a media room for winter, and a house that can be checked, warmed and opened from the platform at Grand Central.
What Riverside asks for
A wired network with access points placed for the whole property, so the pool house and the far lawn work as well as the kitchen.
Explore →Shades for harbor-facing glass, set to follow the sun so the view stays and the glare and fading go.
Explore →Music in every room you want it, with speakers hidden in the ceiling or plaster and one app to run it.
Explore →One Savant system for lighting, shades, climate and audio, easy enough for every member of the family.
Explore →Landscape lighting in Riverside
In Riverside, we light the house and the trees in layers, keep the glare off the water, and choose solid brass fixtures that hold up to the salt air near the harbor.
Across Riverside
and across Riverside, ZIP 06878.
Nearby: Old Greenwich · Cos Cob · Belle Haven · Greenwich · 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.
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.
Integration is dramatically easier, and better, when it's designed alongside the architecture, not retrofitted after.
What we bring to Riverside
Let's talk about the home and the system it deserves.
More on how we think about the work. Read the Journal →