Estates across the metroplex.

A market driven by renovation.

Dallas is a renovation market first. The core luxury neighborhoods — Preston Hollow, Highland Park, University Park — have long-established housing stock, and the highest-end integration work is almost always inside a home that was built decades ago and is being systematically re-worked room by room. That changes the integration playbook. You're pulling new wire through existing walls, working around finished millwork, and coordinating with contractors who specialize in high-end historic restoration.

Farther out — Southlake, Westlake, and the far north metroplex — the picture is closer to Austin's Hill Country: large-lot new construction on generous land budgets. We handle both. The Central Texas team covers the entire DFW metroplex, and for large projects we bring in additional programmers from the California studio.

What's different about a Preston Hollow project.

The first difference is scale. DFW estate homes are large — 10,000 to 25,000 square feet is common in the primary luxury corridors. That means longer wire runs, more zones, larger racks, and more attention to distribution architecture. We use Crestron DM NVX video over IP on almost every DFW estate project because copper matrix simply doesn't scale to the room counts.

The second is millwork. Preston Hollow and Highland Park interiors are millwork-heavy — coffered ceilings, paneled libraries, custom cabinetry. Speaker placement, keypad integration, and display concealment all have to be coordinated with the millwork shop early. We supply CAD blocks for every device and location to the millworker at the design development phase so nothing gets discovered at rough-in.

The third is climate control integration. DFW summers demand tight HVAC scheduling, and DFW clients expect automation to include HVAC scenes coordinated with shading and lighting. Every DFW project we take on includes HVAC integration on top of the standard AV/lighting/shading scope.