This custom four-storey home overlooking one of Queensland’s iconic beaches has everything one could desire. Amazing views, superb indoor/outdoor living and an unbelievable sense of harmony where captivating interior and exterior design delicately infuse with home automaton for magical touches of personality and user experiences.

Our client approached us for our design and installation expertise to help deliver this interstate dream home with Glen Watson Building and Design. Glen Watson is renowned for building these beautiful masterpieces and we joined the project to ensure the electronic lifestyle solutions provided the perfect complement to the interior and exterior ambitions of the project. The client brief was to ensure that all the home services were integrated to ensure living in this multi-level property would be a breeze with elegant and unified control for the whole family and to ensure remote off-site management would be at the client’s fingertips. To maximise interior space and height, we worked with the builder and client to engineer solutions that would allow minimalistic ceiling and wall cavities for services. While incredibly challenging, our project delivery team drew on years of experience to deliver proven technical solutions to achieve this.

It all begins with the idea of one intuitive control platform for the entire property. From the entry, an ‘Intercom Anywhere’ solution calls touchscreens and smartphones over the property and provides simple communication with full integration control of the pedestrian gate and front door plus quick access to control wider property gates, and preview of live CCTV cameras across the grounds. So when guests and service providers arrive, the home functions with ease, even when away from the property. And for the family, keyless home entry provides secure peace of mind with all the ease of moving about the property. When at home or away the security system and integrated CCTV allows a level of reassurance fully managed from home touchscreens on each level or smartphones anywhere.

The security system integrates with other services providing automatic ‘welcome home’ lighting upon arrival into the property at night through to automatic blind and HVAC automation so the building organically adapts the lived environment with arrival detection and responds appropriately by time of day. And once within the property, fully adaptable Intelligent lighting complements the entire look and feel from arrival to relaxing, entertaining, dining, retiring to bed and adapting any room environment for the occasion. And from the smart light switches with engraved buttons, each white glass switch panel allows full adaption of lighting and also control of motorised blinds for more simplicity and to reduce wall clutter.

This home offers more than resort living. A fully embedded entertainment treatment allows access to any song, artist or album in 16 areas via the worlds streaming services. Many rooms feature invisible speakers to keep the expansive ceilings free so your eye is always drawn to the big blue sea horizon. And all across the home, smart room remotes fully control custom fit TVs with an unlimited choice of distributed, hide-away video content while also allowing full comfort adaption from lighting to heating and cooling, motorised blinds, and the delight of a fresh sea breeze via motorised windows. And for that extra cosy touch, full control of gas flame fire places. There is no need to leave home. A dedicated and architecturally fitted theatre entertains beyond measure and an amazing pool terrace suspended in the sky creates an entertainment and relaxation oasis with the worlds music available for everyone. Even the pool and spa is fully controllable from touchscreens and smartphones.

And when leaving the property, just by activating the security, the home turns off into an energy efficient state and blinds close to keep the home cool and minimise sun damage to furnishings. Imagine turning off four floors of the home that easily just by arming the security! At home or when away, the family have full control via touchscreens or smartphones of their irrigation with scheduling they can easily optimise for the time of year and weather conditions. The automation system also provides an extra level of personalisation able to send push notifications to smartphones based on special events detected by the systems. So when away from the property, the family can keep abreast of the property functions that they wish to monitor actively.

The importance of a good data network cannot be overstated. The home has full connectivity for broadband sharing and managed Wi-Fi roaming over four floors and outdoor areas. So from having all the benefits of home automation to accessing entertainment content, viewing CCTV, running a home office and having control of every service at ones fingertips, the home is a true representation of a ‘connected home’ and allows a high level adaptability to new services and innovations over the life of the property.

This level of personalisation is all about good collaboration between the client, the project design and delivery team, and the builder, while drawing on years and years of delivering custom fitted smart home experiences. This is why we love what we do. Creating great personalised homes that truly reflect the way each member of the family likes to live, making the home more liveable, delivering better comfort, more personalised entertainment and a reassuring level of safety and security – all beautifully infused into the overall interior and exterior design.

A transformation of a character filled Edwardian home into a stylish, modern, entertaining masterpiece. The front façade implies traditional elegance but once you enter this amazing home, history and tradition transcend with breathtaking contemporary ambience, where the best in home automation adds that sense of intuitive and responsive personalisation. From stunning whole home comfort adaption through intelligent lighting control to fully personalised custom fit entertainment across three floors, every room is an experience to be enjoyed.

A Control4 home automation design firstly consolidates the full home user experience providing intelligent lighting control for comfort adaption, in the moment, in any space. You can imagine the transformative impressions great lighting design delivers – perhaps a soft glow of comfort and accentuation of architectural features and decor – In the bath, relaxing in bed, dining or taking time out in the whimsical ambience of the avant-garde lounge & bar – adaptive control of architectural designed lighting allows you to be… to linger, to recollect and unwind. Cosy lighting accompanies you as you enjoy wine with friends by the pool- the garden landscape lighting becomes your oasis and takes your outdoor living to another place. Smart lighting allows you to create experiences and character while allowing art-piece lighting to fully express style and personality. Smart lighting speaks like a poem from a page and allows you to paint and create your own experience.

Home automation is the quiet melody where the home becomes an expression of who you are and how you like to live. Being safe and secure, being connected, being entertained. This is how a home should feel, where you re-discover something of yourself in space, light, stone and timber, music, comfort, safety and social connection.

To uncover the secrets of this home is to see the invisible. Holistic and simplified control where a world renowned Control4 user control system brings together 24 discrete zones of music to personalise any space with architecturally recessed minimalism and extensive integration into garden landscaping. It delivers a total sense of safety and security over three levels with dependable smart alarm and effortless keyless entry control of secure gates and doors when coming and going. With full property CCTV combined with effective browsing control at your fingertips anywhere, it complements how you manage providing keyless access security control to the grounds, gives reassurance to survey any concern, helps manage the property and keeps an eye on things when away. Innovative ‘Intercom Anywhere’ connects you, your guests and family. From arrivals at the secure front gate or front door to instant paging and connection of family members across three levels and expansive outdoor entertaining zones – even the tennis court, wine room, theatre or pool. Intercom Anywhere is conveniently available from touchscreens and via smartphones even when away from home.

Working closely with the client and architect, Nicholas Murry, home automation helps solve the overall liveability of the home. The stunning living room is an architectural entertainment centrepiece. Central distribution of indoor and outdoor entertainment is discreetly hidden within the floating cabinet yet one simple control solution offers an uncomplicated user experience for the whole property and room. The Living Room commercial cinema quality surround sound system incorporates funky art-peace B&O speakers and joyfully complements the tear-drop suspended fire place.

The invisible surround sound speakers are incorporated into the atmospheric timber feature ceiling focussed with precision to the seating locations. The overall design expresses playful fun and a contemporary cutting edge user experience and room design. This is what good home automation is all about, working to solve the architectural ambition of the project and allowing the personality of the family to engage fully with the space with simplicity. Everything is effortless – hidden content devices and streamed services at your fingertips for fully immersive surround sound, TV and movie viewing and master quality music. It’s the pinnacle for being entertained with ease while being spoilt for choice. Outdoor living has multi zoned music, a drop down TV from the Pool Pavilion ceiling and overhead heating. Even the pool cover control is consolidated into the overarching home controls. Creating outdoor spaces like a living room ensures the home creates new possibilities for day to day living across the year.

Then there is that liberation of being connected anywhere over the property with tailored Wi-Fi coverage over three levels and expansive gardens, pool, tennis court and outdoor entertaining pavilion.

It’s a story book of a turn-of-the-century Edwardian gem, transformed and beautifully infused with a sleek, contemporary design and smart home adaptability. With infinite possibilities for day to day living adaption, this beautiful home enhances the lived experience to new levels.

A total smart home makeover and extensive renovation of a 1960’s two story home creating a refreshing and modern oasis for a family of five delivering the best of contemporary indoor-outdoor living.

Intelligent lighting provides full flexibility to create personalised and adaptable comfort. With added benefits of automated welcome home lighting, effortless whole home control and amazing outdoor colour lighting ambience when entertaining or relaxing by the pool, intelligent lighting control underpins the look and feel of each lived environment. The intuitive light switches have engraved buttons consolidating full room control of lighting, ceiling sweep fans, skylights, motorised external shades and motorised blinds for ease of use and to reduce wall clutter.

The project incorporates the latest in intercom innovation we call “Intercom Anywhere” by Control4. Easily accessible across a distribution of Control4 touchscreens and also from smartphones, intercom with property CCTV preview and convenient control of gates, doors and security is a breeze. It provides more choice in greeting guests, providing property access and receiving deliveries. For a two story home with expansive outdoor entertaining spaces, it beautifully combines convenience with greater security.

A Control4 home automation design provides just one user interface to control all the home services from lighting, entertainment and security to heating and cooling, motorised blinds and external shades, motorised skylights, pool and spa, intercom, electronic gates and doors and more. The beauty is in the simplicity. Its so intuitive and responsive solving living in a large multi-story home with extensive indoor and outdoor living spaces.

Most rooms and the entire outdoor entertaining setting feature an un-obtrusive architecturally fitted multiroom audio design allowing unlimited music choice in any area via the worlds music and internet radio steaming services.

All the key entertainment rooms and outdoor entertaining spaces benefit from distributed video allowing sharing of all Foxtel boxes, Apple TV and cameras to any TV and the theatre via highly intuitive remote controls so you can watch anything, anywhere. The home is capped off with a dedicated home cinema, again architecturally fitted to create a more engaging room for day to day living and entertaining.

For peace of mind, the home is fitted with comprehensive security and CCTV allowing zone arming and easy access to view live cameras and recordings when at home or away from the property. Electronic controlled gates and doors and keyless entry allow for convenience when coming and going. Keyless freedom can be liberating when going for a walk, riding the bike or bringing in the groceries.

Motorised, shade-fitted skylights are controlled to allow better light management into the interior of the home and allow circulation of fresh air.

For a family of five, seamless Wi-Fi across the entire property and over two floors ensures fast broadband sharing for content and running a home office. As the lifestyle systems that underpin homes become smarter and more connected, data becomes a most essential service deserving professional design as in this case.

The beauty is all in the lived experience – The simplicity and the adaptability of the home in harmony with the way each member of the family like to live, be entertained and feel more secure with greater comfort.