A contemporary home with 11,500 square feet of indoor/outdoor living space is built for entertaining.

Interior designers Sam Ewing and Gail Winn discuss the details.

2009 CEDIA Electronic Lifestyles Award Winner

Best Media Room: Overall Winner

Electronic Systems Consultant: Starr Systems Design—Baltimore, Md.

This client wanted it all.

Trump This

Real-estate maven and millionaire Donald Trump isn’t afraid to put his money where his mouth is.

Nor is he afraid to splash his name across his own furniture line.

In partnership with Lexington Home Brands, The Donald has launched the Trump Home Collection.

Get Lit

OK, so you’re a little too sophisticated to light up your home theater with a dozen lava lamps.

But if you’re hell-bent on having a little “glow action” in your private cinema, design like a grown-up and go for ThinkGlass’ LED-lit glass countertop.

It Could Be Love

Need an ulterior motive to cajole her into saying “yes” to that tricked-out home theater you’ve been dreaming of?

Buy her this sweetheart of a chair and watch her swoon, because no woman can resist a heart-shaped bauble.

2009 CEDIA Electronic Lifestyles Award Winner

Best Integrated Home: Overall Winner

Electronic Systems Consutlant: T&T Automation Ltd.—British Columbia, Canada

When Tony Harper, the managing director of T & T Automation Ltd., was hired to handle all the a/v and automation for a sprawling 35,000-square-foot residential compound in Vancouver, Canada, it’s fair to say that the word “imposing” crossed his mind. 

Mmmm, Bacon

I’m popcorn obsessed. I eat popcorn for dinner. I devour the stale morning-after stuff with a soda for breakfast. I eschew the dry, over-salted cinema stuff with fake butter and bring my own stash.

So I'm always on the lookout for my next popfix. And boy did I find it.

2009 CEDIA Electronic Lifestyles Award Winner

Best Large Home Theater: Overall Winner

Electronic Systems Consultant: La Scala Home Cinema + Integrated Media—Vancouver, Canada

If a residential electronic systems consultant is so bold to offer a customer-service hotline 24/7—and a return phone call within 15 minutes—the firm is either crazy or confident. Or a little of both.