At
a young age, Emmy® award-winning actor Bryan Cranston learned the value of
recycling and prolonging the life of things he owns. Today, he has taken his
eco-conscious lifestyle one step further by building a new LEED® Platinum
certified beachfront home near Los Angeles, California. The home, which
Cranston dubbed 3Palms, uses solar panels, radiant heat, low-energy appliances,
LED lighting and natural ventilation to cut energy usage, and everything from
the lights to the motorized window shutters can be controlled from anywhere in
the world through the simple-to-use ELAN®
g! Entertainment and Control System!
“My
grandparents and parents taught me about recycling when I was a boy,” Cranston
reminisced. “It was just part of their lives — composting, recycling,
repurposing and using things until they were of no use, not succumbing to the
temptation of buying something new simply because it’s new. I’ve been of that
mindset for 50 years, so when I started thinking about creating a new home on
the beach, I decided I wanted to do a net-zero energy house and get LEED
Platinum certification.”
After
finding a suitable beachfront plot that housed a very unsuitable, inefficient
1940s home, Cranston began designing the new 3 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home using
every energy-conscious element possible. Considerations include motorized
window shutters for protection from the elements, solar panels for electricity,
solar thermal units for hot water, house-wide LED lighting, high-performance
insulation, wood from FSC certified sustainable forests, and the ELAN g!
Entertainment and Control system to make everything easy to use, manage and
monitor, including schedules for lighting, heating and security, plus worldwide
access to check on the home.
“I’ve
already used the ELAN system remotely with the mobile app to check on the
security cameras,” Cranston said. “I was rushing out the door, and as I was
driving away I had a moment of doubt where I thought ‘Did I close the garage
doors?’, so I went on the system and checked the cameras. One of them lets me
see the garage, and sure enough it was open! So I went into the system, pushed
close, and that was that. It’s worth its weight in gold right there.”
In
addition to the security cameras, garage doors and window shutters, the ELAN g!
system allows Cranston to use his iPhone or iPad to control his whole-home
music system and every light both indoors and outdoors. With pre-set schedules
for heating, lighting and security, he never has to wonder whether his home is
running at optimum efficiency. The g! system also has a history feature where
he can view the past usage of each system and then easily make any adjustments
he wants.
Cranston
can even see which lights or speakers are on in each room, then turn them off
one at a time or all at once. Justin Brees of custom electronics installation
company AM
House programmed a super
convenient ‘Home/Away” button that sets the home up for when he leaves or returns.
It’s specially programmed to shut down the house when no one is home, with
actions such as turning off all the lights and speakers, arming the security
system and closing the shutters. For additional “Away” mode security, some
lights go on at random intervals at night to simulate that someone is home.
To
show the public that eco-living can still be comfortable and stylish, Cranston
is leveraging his celebrity status to share his new green home with television
viewers all across the U.S. in a syndicated weekend series called “Real
Green”. The series will air in late 2013
and will be broadcast on more than 100 local affiliates and cable networks. It
will cover the entire project from conception to move-in and include segments
with all of the experienced professionals that helped make his dream home a
reality, including the builder Bryan Henson, project designer John Turturro,
and custom electronics installer Justin Brees.
For
more information visit www.3palmsproject.com.
Photo
caption: Pictured from left to right are Robert Ridenour, Brand Manager ELAN
Home Systems, Bryan Cranston, and Justin Brees of AM House in Cranston’s new
Los Angeles-area beachfront home.
About ELAN®
Home Systems:
Founded in 1990, ELAN®
Home Systems is an industry leading manufacturer of innovative, award-winning
whole-house entertainment and control systems that are distributed through a
comprehensive channel of select dealers and distributors throughout the United
States, Canada and more than 58 countries worldwide. To learn more, visit www.elanhomesystems.com.
ELAN is part of the Core®
Brands division of Nortek, Inc. Core Brands combines the product and marketing
strengths of ten iconic audio, power management and control brands into a single
business unit that includes ATON®, BlueBOLT®, ELAN®, Furman®, Niles®, Panamax®,
Proficient®, SpeakerCraft®, Sunfire® and Xantech® brands.
ELAN is a subsidiary of
Nortek, Inc., a global, diversified company whose many market-leading brands
deliver broad capabilities and a wide array of innovative, technology-driven
products and solutions for lifestyle improvement at home and at work. Please
visit www.nortekinc.com
for more information.
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