Dream Retirement Home Decked out With Automation
By Grant Clauser
Couple uses Control4 to operate and monitor new retirement dream home.

After retiring five years ago, Larry Riggs and his wife, Carol, were determined to find just the right spot to build their dream home. So with suitcases packed, the couple boarded their motor coach and for a year and a half and traveled the country in search of this new idyllic locale. After visiting countless cities, they kept returning to Durango, Colo. “We loved everything about that area,” Larry says.

After buying a six-acre piece of pristine property near the newly formed manmade lake, Lake Nighthorse, Larry and Carol contacted area builder Kogan Builders to start the plans for their 4,100-square foot retirement getaway. Before they began, however, Kogan suggested that the Riggses speak with Cobalt Automation, a custom electronics firm in the area.



A former homebuilder himself, Larry knew that technology had become an increasingly important component of a comfortable, efficient, modern home. “Having been out of the construction business for five years, however, I felt completely uninformed when it came to current electronic technology.”

After leaning about several home control options, the Riggses elected to install a modest technology package now that could be expanded easily later.

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