If you’re in the market for a new home and planning to build, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by all the options available to you. These days, builders are offering all kinds of incentives to get customers through the door. Among them: free upgrades to higher-end appliances; decorative lighting fixtures; and the option of getting wood, tile, carpet, or a combination of the three installed at no extra cost.

But perhaps the most popular incentive is the offer to pre-wire the home for convenience and entertainment. Today’s new home construction incorporates three levels of A/V built-ins: whole house audio; home automation; and home theater.

Whole house audio includes wiring for a speaker or speakers in every room for music and intercom; home automation involves connecting all systems in the house to a central computer that can do everything from turning lights on and off to preheating the oven when you’re on your way home from work; but perhaps the most popular addition to new home construction these days is putting in a home theater.

The options in this arena are endless so it will require careful planning to make sure you get exactly what you want. The most important thing to decide before the wiring begins would be all the places you want a TV to go. In the kitchen, that may be under a cabinet to save counter space. In the bedroom, family room or even the bathroom, it may be the wall to save floor space.

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