Out of all the high-end homes I saw over my 15 year career, this is the best pool. The house is outside of Georgetown, north of Austin, on a ranch sized piece of property. In the distance is a river surrounded by private pastures.

The house itself wasn't huge, but it had 50 touchscreens. Every room had a touchscreen as you walked in to control the lights and audio video systems for that room. There was one at each patio door to control lights and music outside, at the pool bar to control music and the pool/spa system, at the garage to check on things when leaving or arriving, a wireless touchscreen in the family room to control the entertainment system, and several larger touchscreens in the dedicated theater and kitchen. This was the biggest Crestron project I had worked on, and the largest the dealer I was contracting for had sold. It was roughly a $750k project, with a third in Crestron equipment, and the remainder for Lighting Control and AV equipment. Needless to say, we spent a lot of time at this house.

Ultimately, when leaving the house, they could press one button on the garage touchscreen and the lights would turn off (or on, depending on the time of day) and go into away mode, the security system would arm itself, all TV's and house music would turn off, and the thermostats would switch to away mode. And of course, any audio or video source could be displayed on any TV, so you could pause TV in the kitchen and continue watching in the exercise room or theater. It was a lot of work, but turned out pretty well in the end.

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