House Wiring

[Rarasaurus]

I am building a new home. The builder is letting us do low voltage wiring. Standard is:
1 cat 5e and rg6 in the kitchen
2 cat 5e and 1 rg6 in each bedroom
I would like to do rough in for ceiling speakers in the Living room, kitchen, Master and Ensuite.
I am thinking 5 speakers in the living room for surround 5.1 and 2 in the other locations for stereo. For this I am thinking of running the cables from the speakers to where the remote for volume would be in each room and from there to the receiver location in the living room.

I have seen systems that control the volume controls by cat5e so I am also thinking of doing cat5e from the receiver to the volume control locations.

Does this sound good? What else would you guys add?

[im2fst4u]

In our new home, we have the Control 4 system. It controls the entire house from powered blinds, lighting, theater, irrigation system, entry gates, surveillance system etc.
You can run multiple audio zones...possibilities are endless with a Control 4 system. Run your entire home from your iPhone
If you would like some good pointers, call Stu at 403-851-0112.
Here (http://www.homex.ca/index.html) is his website. Great guy and a plethora of information.

Control 4 (http://www.control4.com/) info

You are welcome to come out and see how the system works anytime for some ideas.

[im2fst4u]

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[Rarasaurus]

Cool system for sure and I will look into that when I move in. However I am wondering more on the wiring right now to make it cheaper and easier when I do want to integrate everything. Those light switch dimmers are pretty cool.