design

Technology Designer’s Day of Discovery 2025 Returns to CEDIA Expo

Featuring a keynote on the business of lighting and curated tours of CEDIA Expo’s Show Floor.

Features

Design Week: Working With LiquidView

Brighten up basements and interior rooms with these virtual windows that provide 24-hour, high-def views of some of the world’s most dazzling landscapes.

David Weinstein, VP of residential sales at Lutron

Blogs

Design + Integration: A Boise Meetup That Got It Right

A recap of the recent NKBA Big Sky and Mountain States Spring Meeting.

Automation

Wall-Smart Debuts New Flush-Mount Solutions for Josh.ai, RTI, and Vantage

Wall-Smart has created keypad and touchscreen mounts for recent product introductions and will be showing them at CEDIA Expo.

Galia Ben-Dor, co-CEO and founder of Wall-Smart

Blogs

2024 CEDIA Shares: Wall-Smart

Wall-Smart gives Residential Systems readers a sneak peek at what the company is planning for its CEDIA Expo 2024 exhibit.

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Lighting & Shades

SI Releases Origami Shade Series for Different-Shaped Windows

Come in a variety of shapes that can be mix-and-matched to meet every project need.

News

The Cinema Designer Launches TCD 2.5 Update

Update includes Trinnov Waveforming, heat maps, additional surrounds, and more.

Features

Better Than Guessing

Eight rules of thumb in addressing the most common topics covered in a home theater meeting.

Features

Helping Clients to Visualize

Here are some new ways to present to architects and interior designers that might move the needle in your favor.

Features

The Home Theater Dream Team

The challenge of successfully blending design, acoustics, and technology teams to create the ultimate private cinema.

Behind the Business

2024 Technology Design Trends

There is an abundance of tech available today that is very easy on the eyes — even if it is not meant to be...

Outdoor Technology Ecosystem – Costal Source Contour

News

Coastal Source Outdoor Lighting and Audio Showcased at the Pacific Design Center

Manufacturer teams up with AV Interiors’ new California showroom to demo Coastal Source products for southern California designers and dealers.

Features

The Scalable Path to Luxury Cinema

Even in the world of high-end theater design, there is room for good, better, best options.

NKBA NYC Design and Tech Summit 2023 - Featured

Features

Being Present, Pleasant, and Supportive

Design professionals want to include tech and are eager to learn, but are still leery of the lingo.

Legrand Shading Systems Decorative Brackets Demo Case

News

Legrand Debuts New Dealer Demo Case for Designer Series Decorative Brackets

Allows dealers to showcase the Shading Systems Designer Series Decorative Brackets and matching hembar endcaps to their customers.

Technology

Leon Releases New Studio Frame for Sony’s Bravia XR TVs

The Studio Frame attaches around existing XR models to transform the Bravia’s 4K ultra-HD display into a framed work of art.

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Features

Home Theater Week: Navigating Through Entertainment Seating

Not all seating is created equal.

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News

The Cinema Designer Launches TCD 2.0

Ground-up redesign of software tool now available.

News

Modus VR Introduces New Presenter Mode; Adds Seven Manufacturer Partners

Presenter Mode empowers on-screen presentations and non-VR participants to Join a live VR session on any meeting platform from anywhere.

Technology

Audio Advice Releases Interactive Projector Throw Distance Calculator

Expands free home theater design offerings with an interactive tool to help consumers and installers find optimal screen size and throw distance for projectors.

Features

Home Theater Week: Elevated Expectations

Proper speaker elevation in an immersive sound system needs to consider all the speaker groups in the room.

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Features

Home Theater Week: Sense-sational Theater Design

How technology and interior design of screening rooms relate to the fundamental senses.

CEDIA Show

Modus VR to Giveaway $10,000 in New MaaS at CEDIA Expo 2022

Integrators can enter to win $1000 worth of Modus VR specialist design services, including consultation, live design sessions, and project deliverables.

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Lighting & Shades

New Designer Shade Fabrics from Legrand Shading Systems

With this latest release, Legrand now offers 753 fabrics in its portfolio.

Features

Are You All In to Win?

Going all-in with the design/build community means making them feel welcome with your words, website, and work.

Features

Building the Best Team

It takes an incredible amount of talent and professionals to create the right private cinema experience.

Awards

Leon Announces Winners of 2021 Install of the Year Contest

Winning installations feature creative applications of Leon’s range of design-forward AV solutions.

Features

Five Things I’ve Learned About Designing for Luxury Clientele

A look inside the mind of an ultra-high-end client.

Features

Commercial Design Quickly Making Its Way Home

Far more than a catchy term, “resimercial” is a multi-faceted trend that’s not just here to stay but one that’s influencing how we approach...

News

Salamander Designs Unveils Online Configurator

New self-service tool brings ability for integrators and reps to design, price, and order entertainment furniture in real time with customers.

News

Revit Files for Wall-Smart Solutions Now Available Through BIMobject

Downloadable Wall-Smart files can be incorporated into drawings, renderings, and blueprints to streamline the modeling process.

News

Modus VR Goes Commercial with New Conferencing Technology Software

Latest features in virtual reality software expand functionality to commercial environments, allowing stakeholders to visualize the conference room and technology layouts.