If you didn't get a chance to visit the Southern Building Show last week in Atlanta, you missed a beautiful, digital show home. The EarthCraft/TecHome show home is a green, infill project built by Carl Seville, who is well respected as a green builder and educator on the topic. EarthCraft House is a voluntary green building program of the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association. Through its program, the group independently certifies new homes as sustainable. In fact, Tributary at New Manchester, which I blogged about last week, is reportedly 100 percent EarthCraft-certified.

Here's a picture of the home, as well as the kitchen:

The digital infrastructure was impressive. On-Q/Legrand handled the whole-home audio; home automation was from Superna; and Powerline Control Systems, as its name implies, provided lighting control over the home's electrical wires. The PCS PulseWorx system supported five lighting scenes per room and could control ran speeds throughout the home. Everything was workable from a controller in the master bedroom, and the system integrated with the Superna software:

Now, in addition to the digital systems, which are the primary concern here at DIGITAL HOME, the green building techniques and products were also impressive. (Seville told me the home's bricks were recycled from the previous structure--and also shared with another infill project up the street.) I encourage you to read more here. 

But my favorite product was from a company called Solatube, which launched its Solatube Daylighting System early this year. The system comprises a dome that sits on the roof, and a tube that pipes natural light into the home. Solatube has been selling daylighting products for years, but the new system has enhancements for improving light early and late in the day (see a demo here). There were a few scattered around the show home, including in at least one bathroom, and the light was excellent. Interestingly, there was also one out back on the covered porch, which you can see here next to the in-ceiling speaker (a great use of distributed audio, by the way):

All-in-all, a well thought-out digital home. I even like that the builder pulled wire to a high corner in the master bathroom in the event the owner wanted to hook up a flat-screen TV.

Tell me when I can visit your model digital home.