We all have one person on our holiday list who has everything! This year give the gift of bringing them one step closer to a fully automated home. To celebrate the holiday season we’ve put together items at very special pricing to make everyone smile.

All-In-One Listening Package

Sonos Play:5 Wireless HiFi Player

You’ll never get tired of the same old Christmas music with this ultimate all-in-one listening experience. Stream your entire music library, music services or radio stations and experience the deepest, richest sound in your home with 5 driver HiFi Speaker System for sound that fills up the entire room. Easy to setup and wireless to control this Play:5 is an easy choice at only $399.

September wasn’t just back to school month for students; hundreds of architects, interior designers, contractors and other housing industry professionals turned up for a series of presentations hosted by Houzz.com on how to harness the power of Houzz’s 23 million users for their businesses. Mixing education and fun, the learning and networking events hosted throughout Westchester and Fairfield Counties brought modern day technology to established businesses.

Soundworks, along with Murphy Brothers Contracting and Gibbons Digital, were thrilled to host Houzz Team Community member Michael Stein as he presented all technological facets of Houzz.com industry professionals can use to improve business efficiency, reach new prospective clients and streamline communications. Equipped with laptops and tablets, industry professionals brought all their local knowledge and personal insights to sessions at the Antique and Artisan Center in Stamford, Molly Spillane’s in Mamaroneck and Westchester Magazine in Rye.

Houzz boasts impressive statistics with 90% of users owning their own home and 75% of users actively planning to redecorate or remodel their home. With over 17 million mobile app installs, industry professionals were taught the best ways to tailor the power of Houzz for their businesses.

“It was amazing to see so many Westchester and Fairfield County home professionals who were being proactive in trying to learn how to enhance and expand their business through learning more about Houzz,” said Michael Stein. “Our attendance was great, and there were so many questions and comments that showed me that Houzz really has created the best space for Home Professionals to get their names and their work out there to the thousands of homeowners in their area, and the millions of users we have around the country.”

Long gone are the days of designers hauling giant binders and portfolios to client meetings, Houzz provides sleek design and a platform for designers to tell their stories through high quality photographs on a site that already hosts of 3.5 million photos of exterior, interior and landscapes.

You don’t have to do an overhaul of your entire home to see if home automation is for you. If you do decide to dip your toes in the high-tech waters the next question becomes, what room should I start with? Any area of the home can be upgraded with a distributed audio system.  

Family Room

The family room is a perfect choice to start your home audio installation. Whether sharing a bottle of wine with a close group of friends or turning family game night into a dance party, the possibilities are endless. Take the focus away from the television and upgrade your family room to a space that can be transformed with the press of a button.

Kitchen

The kitchen is the heart of the home that has a magnetic effect on the entire family. Whether cooking for the family, hosting a small party or embracing family fun night – the kitchen is the perfect place to install a music system. Add iPad or Tablet controls to turn great music into a fun jukebox for everyone.

Home automation isn’t just for controlling your TV or sound system – it gives you the feeling of being secure from anywhere in the world.  Keeping your home safe while on vacation used to be a juggling act – deciding whether to keep the lights on or off, worrying about keeping the blinds open or closed and triple checking every lock on every door before you leave.

Having a security system integrated into a smart home makes life so much easier. With a Soundworks designed and installed home automation system by Savant you can control the lights in your home, adjust your shades, control your HVAC system, be notified of unusual movement in the house, play footage from surveillance cameras remotely anywhere in the world, and be 100% sure that the front door is locked. After all; isn’t vacation about relaxing?

Lighting

When you go on vacation, making sure your home looks occupied is a big worry. With a smart home system you can control lights located in different parts of your home from your smartphone or tablet. You can even set a lighting schedule before going away to be sure you are worry free

Cameras

Home security technology has advanced so far that checking in on the house is easier than ever. You now have the ability to record, zoom, and reposition your cameras, get notified of movement in your home, and take snapshots of recorded footage – as well as the ability to go back through the recorded logs to make sure everything is as it should be at home – while you sip a Mai Tai poolside.

Control

You no longer have to fret about whether you remembered to lock the back door – fully automated homes will give you control over locking and unlocking doors remotely and can be set up to send you an alert about a door being unlocked. Forgot to turn your TV off, close the shades or adjust the pool heater or pump? No sweat! Control any of this from anywhere in the world from the touch of your phone or tablet.