smart home

Be Smart About Transferring Smart Home Devices After a Sale

By Lydia Blair / January 26, 2021 /

Hundreds of properties sell every day in North Texas. Many of them come with smart devices that help our homes operate smoothly and make our lives easier. But there is a disturbing issue that may lurk in the shadows of these sales. Who is controlling and accessing the smart devices when the homeownership transfers?  Smart…

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Get Smart: Dallas Market Center Debuts Smarter Living by Design Showroom

By Lifestylist® Suzanne Felber / June 26, 2019 /

The Dallas design community has another first to boast about: last week The Dallas Market Center opened the first smart home showroom in North America. It is full of life-changing technology that can make anyone’s life a little bit easier – even this tech challenged Lifestylist® can’t wait to incorporate some of it in her…

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Digital Living: With Internet-Enabled Devices, The Smart Home Is The Tattletale House

By Jon Anderson / March 21, 2017 /

In Edgar Allen Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart, the writer gets away with murder, boasting at seating detectives above the buried body while being interviewed. Good planning and credible acting were all that were required. In Arkansas, a murder case is winding through the courts.  Three men watched sports, got drunk, hit the hot tub and the…

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