Innovative Sight & Sound is proud to announce that we have been recognized with two top honors in the 2026 CE Pro Home of the Year Awards, presented at CEDIA Expo 2026 in Denver, Colorado. The annual awards recognize standout integration projects for their technical excellence, creativity, design, problem-solving, and ability to create exceptional client experiences.
This year, our team earned a Gold Award for the Tampa Game Room and a Silver Award for Skyway Motor Space. While the two projects could not be more different, both represent what we strive to deliver on every project: thoughtful design, highly customized technology, and an experience built around the space itself.
Gold Award: Best Home Office/Gaming Space
Project: Tampa Game Room (Tampa Area, FL)
Designed to bring together golf, entertainment, work, and family life, this Tampa-area residence transforms a highly customized game room into a true multi-purpose experience. At its center is a custom-engineered golf simulator surrounded by bespoke design details that allow high-performance technology to feel completely at home within the architecture.
One of the defining elements is the simulator enclosure itself. Custom-dyed faux alligator skin fabric was engineered into the impact-absorbing perimeter surfaces, allowing the system to withstand repeated golf ball strikes while preserving the refined Florida-inspired aesthetic envisioned for the room.
The result is much more than a place to practice a golf swing. Custom theater seating positioned behind the hitting zone allows the golf simulator itself to transition into a cinematic viewing experience for movies, sports, and more. Just beyond the simulator, a separate home theater/media room creates an additional dedicated space for relaxing and entertainment. Together with an architectural lighting, motorized shades, and tailored finishes, the overall environment was designed to support golf and media entertainment within one connected space.
Project Highlights:
- Uneekor EYE XO2 launch monitor integrated into a custom-built golf simulator system
- Custom multi-textured turf featuring distinct hitting, rough, faux sand, and putting surfaces for a more realistic playing experience
- Custom-dyed faux alligator skin impact surfaces developed to balance simulator performance with the room’s refined design language
- Architectural and RGBW lighting combining DMF fixtures and custom linear lighting for layered illumination throughout the space
- Custom theater seating positioned behind the hitting zone, allowing the simulator to transition into a theater for movies, sports, and family entertainment
- Lutron motorized blackout shades for effortless light control and an optimized viewing environment
- Integrated AV and control designed to keep the technology intuitive while supporting the room’s many different uses
What makes the Tampa Game Room stand out is not any single piece of technology. It is the way every element works together. By carefully planning around the home’s footprint, design direction, and multiple uses, our team created an environment that moves naturally from golf practice and simulator-side movie viewing to a separate media room, work, play, and family time without sacrificing performance or aesthetics.
Silver Award: Best Commercial Project
Project: Skyway Motor Space
Created to showcase an elite automotive collection, Skyway Motor Space brings together dramatic architectural lighting, automated protection, control, and high-performance entertainment within one highly specialized environment.
On the showroom floor, a custom continuous linear lighting system traces the architecture and casts a refined glow across the high-gloss reflective surfaces below. Rather than simply illuminating the room, the lighting becomes part of the display itself, creating a halo effect around the vehicles and emphasizing their contours, finishes, and presence within the space.
Above the showroom, an open mezzanine houses a full-scale Golfzon golf simulator. That location presented a unique challenge: how to protect the multi-million-dollar vehicle collection below from an off-target golf ball without permanently closing off the mezzanine or interrupting the architecture.
Working alongside the general contractor and design team, Innovative engineered a custom Lutron motorized drapery solution fitted with dense, impact-absorbing fabric. When the simulator is in use, the system encloses the exposed perimeter of the loft. When play ends, it retracts into concealed architectural pockets, reopening the view between the mezzanine and showroom.
Project Highlights:
- Golfzon TwoVision NX with dual-handed play, full motion plate, automatic teeing, ball retrieval, touchscreen kiosk, and high-speed swing cameras
- Custom Lutron motorized protection system designed to shield the automotive collection while preserving the open architecture
- Custom linear architectural lighting integrated into the baseboard and surrounding architectural details
- Proluxe lighting creating smooth, precision-diffused illumination throughout offices, hallways, and display areas
- Luminii Stenos lighting integrated into the kinetic art feature for an additional layer of architectural illumination
- Control4 keypad control providing intuitive access to lighting throughout the surrounding spaces
- Custom simulator turf, wall panels, and platform buildout designed specifically around the Golfzon system and surrounding architecture
Skyway Motor Space demonstrates what can happen when technology is treated as part of the architecture rather than something added afterward. From the low-level lighting that visually frames the vehicles to an automated protection system that disappears when it is no longer needed, every solution was designed to perform without compromising the space around it.
Two Projects. Two Awards. One Commitment to the Experience.
Recognition from the CE Pro Home of the Year Awards reflects more than the finished spaces. It represents the planning, engineering, collaboration, and craftsmanship required to make sophisticated technology feel like a natural part of the architecture.
The Tampa Game Room and Skyway Motor Space called for two very different approaches. One centered on creating a flexible, multi-generational residential retreat. The other required balancing the demands of a high-performance simulator, architectural lighting, and the protection of an extraordinary automotive collection. In both, the goal remained the same: design technology around the experience, not the other way around.
We are honored to have both projects recognized on the national stage and proud of the Innovative team members and partners who helped bring each vision to life.
See What’s Possible in Your Space
Whether you are building a new home, creating a dedicated entertainment space, developing a commercial environment, or looking for ways to integrate technology more thoughtfully into the architecture, Innovative Sight & Sound can help bring the vision together.
From smart home automation and custom theaters to architectural lighting, motorized window treatments, high-performance audio, networking, security, and custom golf simulators, our team designs technology around the way each space is meant to look, feel, and perform.
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