All you really need to know about the owner of this entertainment pavilion is that after the $1.3 million construction, he was standing in the room while some jazz by Duke Ellington was playing, and he found himself tapping his feet and saying, ?Ah, now that?s a cut above.? ?The homeowner wanted this to be cutting-edge forever,? says Eric Hudgens of custom electronics company Tailored Technology. ?And custom is important. He wanted things that others don?t have.?

A 110-inch video screen and bank of pinball machines make sure that there's always something fun to do in this rec room. A Crestron PC tablet (resting on the hearth) invites the homeowners to select a movie, a TV program or a piece of music to play in the room. When the party in the rec room is over, pressing a button on the tablet instructs the colored lights to turn off, the drapes to open and the video projector and screen to lift up into the ceiling.