A Smart Home That Honors Highland Park's Architecture
Highland Park homes carry a kind of memory. Georgian Revival manors along Armstrong Parkway, Tudor estates beneath the live oaks on Lakeside Drive, Spanish Colonial houses on Potomac Avenue — each holds a story in its plaster, its millwork, its shaded rooms. Tucking modern automation into a home like this is delicate work. Plaster-over-lath walls do not forgive shortcuts. Narrow stud cavities and the ghosts of knob-and-tube wiring demand a careful hand. We have spent years refining the small art of routing a system through a heritage home without scarring a medallion, splintering a baseboard, or disturbing a single line of trim. Not one original detail moves. Not one piece of trim is lost.
Across the Tollway in Preston Hollow, the conversation shifts. Five-acre lots. Guest quarters, pool houses, motor courts. A home that asks the technology to span buildings and seasons and hours of the day. Whether yours is a sensitive restoration in the Conservation District or a ground-up estate on Strait Lane, we sit beside your architect and your builder and design a Savant system that feels native to the home. Never bolted on. The same obsessive attention walks through every door.
Who We Help in Park Cities
- You own a pre-war Highland Park estate and want it to feel modern without losing a single detail of its plaster or its trim
- You are building a new Preston Hollow home and want every room wired with intention before the drywall closes up
- You live in University Park with an aging system that no longer keeps up with the rhythm of your real life
- You own a Turtle Creek condo or townhome and want a quiet, capable system that lives within the building's rules
- You design Highland Park homes for a living and need an integrator who reads a plan the way you do
How We Do It in Park Cities
A Walk Through Your Home — We come to your Highland Park home and look — at the walls, the wiring paths, the way light moves through the rooms. Then we talk about the morning, the afternoon, the song you want playing at six.
Sitting Beside Your Architect — For a home under preservation guidelines or mid-renovation, we work directly with your architect and contractor to find the routes that leave the plaster and the millwork untouched.
The Engineering — Our team draws the blueprint — processor locations, network topology, keypad placements, the integration points where lighting, climate, security, and sound all meet. The math behind the magic.
A Careful Install — Fish tape, flex-bit drilling, wireless bridges where they belong. The infrastructure goes in with as little disturbance as we can manage. No demolition for its own sake.
Programming the Evening — Scenes built around how your family actually lives. Morning light. The after-school landing. A dinner party. A Goodnight that locks every door and softens every lamp.
The Handoff — A private walkthrough for your household, with documentation written for your home, not a generic manual. And we stay close — remote eyes, priority response, a number that picks up.
The Frustrations We Hear Most
- A system the manufacturer no longer cares about — no updates, no support, no answers
- Plaster walls that crack at the first hint of a careless drill
- WiFi that fades the moment you walk into the kitchen, the library, the upstairs guest wing
- A guest house, a pool cabana, a detached garage — each on its own lonely island
- Preservation guidelines that say no to conduit, no to antennas, no to anything that breaks the silhouette
When the System Stops Listening
- Total system lockout — no lights, no climate, no door locks responding
- Network down — every connected thing in the estate gone quiet
- Security integration offline — cameras, sensors, panel all disconnected
- A discontinued platform that finally crashed for good with no one left to call
The Questions People Actually Ask.
Can you automate a 1930s Highland Park home without damaging plaster walls?
Yes. We use specialized fish-tape routing, flex-bit drilling behind baseboards, and wireless bridges to keep plaster intact. Most of our cabling travels through attic spaces, basement conduit, and existing chase walls — never through finished surfaces unless there is no other way.
Which automation platform do you recommend for large Preston Hollow estates?
For estates over 10,000 square feet or spanning multiple structures, Savant. The platform scales to hundreds of devices across main houses, guest quarters, and outdoor zones without losing its composure.
Do you work with Highland Park architects and builders during new construction?
Always. We sit in on architectural design meetings to plan structured wiring, equipment closets, and conduit runs. Early involvement saves you from expensive change orders and ensures every room is ready for the home you will live in for the next thirty years.
How do you handle automation in Turtle Creek high-rise condos?
A condo lives within rules. We coordinate with building management for riser access, respect HOA expectations on exterior changes, and design self-contained systems that integrate with the building's intercom and access infrastructure.
What happens if my current automation system is discontinued?
We audit what you have, identify what is worth keeping, and design a migration path to a supported platform like Savant. The wiring you already paid for stays. Only the brain changes.
