Located in Tarpon Springs, Florida, this custom smart home blends luxury design with advanced home automation and entertainment technology.
Now on the market, this remarkable Gulf-front home offers more than beautiful views and Mediterranean-inspired architecture. It delivers thoughtful, everyday conveniences that go far beyond what listing photos can capture.
You can find technology all around the home. From lowering motorized shades with a voice command to playing music underwater, technology shines when it feels practical, surprising, and just plain fun.
For the homeowner, those details quickly became second nature.
Seamless Living, Thoughtfully Designed
The Tampa Bay area home is richly detailed, filled with warm woods, layered textures, and ornate finishes. It is a visually expressive space, the kind where bulky hardware or visible tech would feel out of place.
That challenge is exactly where Integral Home Technology excels.
“Even the air vents look beautiful and blend into the ceiling next to the speakers,” the homeowner says. In one room, the team built speakers directly into the walls and finished over them so seamlessly they nearly disappear. “Integral found ways to retrofit everything so the textures and technology blend perfectly.”
Spencer Heckman, project manager at Integral Home Technology, highlights the use of James Loudspeaker small-aperture architectural speakers in spaces like the kitchen, family room, dining room, and primary suite. These discreet, high-performance speakers feature a minimal opening that blends into the ceiling plane.
“They look more like light fixtures than traditional in-ceiling speakers,” says Heckman. “But behind the surface, there is a powerful, full-size speaker.”
The result keeps sightlines clean while delivering full, even audio throughout the home.
The Features You Stop Noticing Until They’re Gone
Some upgrades make a big first impression. Others settle into your routine so naturally that you stop thinking about them until you no longer have them.
The homeowner says one of the features she came to appreciate most was the ability to simply speak and have the house respond.
In this home, that experience came through voice-controlled home automation, powered by Josh.ai and Control4. She could manage lighting, motorized shades, music, and entertainment using voice commands, touchscreens, remotes, or her phone.
That convenience became so natural that she noticed it even when she returned to her primary home in Georgia.
“When I came back to Georgia after the holidays, I caught myself saying, ‘Josh, open the shades,’” she says. “Josh.ai spoiled me.”
Small moments like that quickly become part of daily life. Opening the shades from bed. Adjusting music without getting up. Walking into a room where the lighting already feels right.
Underwater Pool Speakers, Redefining Outdoor Living
One feature still surprises people immediately: the pool.
Integral installed underwater pool speakers directly into the swimming pool walls, allowing music to continue seamlessly beneath the surface. “This is one of those features you do not encounter very often, but it is hard to forget once you do,” says Heckman.
The outdoor spaces were designed with the same attention as the interior. The property includes several outdoor entertainment zones with Coastal Source speakers, outdoor-rated televisions, and Coastal Source landscape lighting. The homeowner especially remembers the lighting around the statues and architectural details, touches that made the property feel even more distinctive at night.
In the cabana, an al fresco media room features a 7.1-channel audio system, including four Origin Acoustics D85EX in-ceiling speakers, a PowerPipe subwoofer in the ceiling, and a custom James Loudspeaker soundbar designed to match the exact width and finish of the TV.
The video is equally as impressive, with a Samsung Terrace TV and an AudioControl receiver delivering a high-performance outdoor entertainment experience.
The Practical Side of Convenience
Some of the home’s most useful features are also the most relatable.
Everyone knows the feeling of pulling away from home and wondering if something was forgotten. Did I close the shades? Did I lock the door? Did I turn that light off?
With the systems installed in this home, the homeowner could check on the house remotely and make adjustments instantly, without turning the car around.
She could also ask the system how many lights were still on in the house, catching the small things that tend to slip through the cracks.
Those kinds of tools add convenience, but they also bring peace of mind. They help ensure the home is set the way you want it, even when you are not there.
Behind the scenes, the home includes whole-home automation from Josh.ai and Control4, Control4 smart lighting, Lutron motorized shades, network and Wi-Fi distribution, 8-megapixel IP security cameras, a custom home theater, and distributed audio designed to work together as a single system. Guests can interact with the home just as easily through voice control or in-wall touchscreens, without needing extra apps or instructions.
Why the Integrator Matters
Integral Home Technology is the company that designed and integrated the smart systems throughout the property, something the homeowner says made a major difference.
“When you’re letting someone into your home to run wiring and install technology, you want to make sure they’re trustworthy,” she says.
Before working with Integral, she had already seen how costly it can be to start with the wrong people. She was working with another integrator. That experience made reputation, references, and proven expertise especially important the second time around. Integral took over about six years ago and has been refining and expanding the home’s technology ever since.
Integral is an HTA Certified integrator, a credential that helps homeowners vet who they are trusting with their home and infrastructure. In a category where mistakes can be expensive and frustrating, credibility matters.
In this case, that credibility showed up not only in the finished product, but in the ability to step into a complicated situation and get the project where it needed to go.
What Carries Over to the Next Owner
As the Tarpon Springs property enters the market, one advantage is that the technology can easily transfer and adapt to the next owner.
Heckman says the handoff process typically takes about a day, giving new homeowners time to learn how the systems work and begin tailoring them to their own preferences.
The current setup reflects how this home has been enjoyed, but the next owners will not be locked into those choices. Lighting scenes, entertainment settings, and control preferences can all evolve over time.
The Details That Stay With You
When the homeowner talks about what she will miss, she keeps coming back to the same idea: ease.
The ease of opening the shades to the Gulf view. The ease of adjusting lights and music. The ease of having comfort built into everyday routines.
Those are not always the first things people notice when they talk about a home. But they are often the things that linger the most once you have lived with them.
And in this Tarpon Springs home, those details are everywhere.
