It’s been about a month since the last walkthrough on this custom smart home, and construction is moving fast—so we’re moving fast too. In this update, I take you through the “sheetrock stage” so you can see what a full luxury smart home backbone looks like before the walls are finished. We’re literally doing everything in this house: whole-home audio, distributed video, Lutron lighting, Hunter Douglas motorized shades, networking, security, touch panels—the full ecosystem. This is one of those projects where you’ve got to use your imagination a bit, because the house is still a construction site, but we’re showing it all the way through like y’all asked. A big takeaway in this video is wiring strategy and planning. The builder (Covington—one of our favorite luxury builders in Houston) requested we “ghost wire” the ceiling speakers, so you won’t see pre-construction plates or cutouts yet—but the infrastructure is already in the walls. I also show the centralized equipment area where the rack, shade power, patch panel, amps, and receivers will live, plus why future-proofing matters (conduit to the attic and out to the exterior for fiber/provider flexibility). And don’t miss the practical tip: if you’re building, run Cat6 to the outside for an exterior Wi‑Fi access point—because nothing happens without Wi‑Fi, especially by the pool.