Can you wire a 1920s Mission Hills house without tearing up the plaster?

In most cases, yes. We route through attics, basement joist bays and existing chases, and we walk the whole path before cutting anything. Where a clean route does not exist, we tell you rather than opening a wall we cannot close well, and we cover that room with wireless lighting or a different speaker approach. Plaster patching is planned into the job, not discovered halfway through.

How quickly can someone get here from your Overland Park office?

Our design center is on Glenwood Avenue in south Overland Park, a short drive down State Line or Mission Road from the village. Site walks in Mission Hills are usually scheduled within the same week, and service calls do not require anyone to cross the metro. Daniel walks the house himself before a proposal is written.

Our Wi-Fi dies on the third floor and in the back yard. Is that fixable in a house like this?

Usually, and usually without a single mesh puck sitting on a shelf. Thick plaster, stone and old chimney chases block a signal that would carry fine in a newer house. We cable access points to the floors and corners that need them, separate smart-home devices onto their own lane, and extend coverage to the yard and any structure behind the garage.

The company that installed our system is gone. Will you take it over?

Yes. We adopt Control4, Lutron and Crestron systems left behind by other integrators, and we service and maintain existing Savant systems even though we are not a Savant dealer. It starts with a site visit to document what is actually in the racks and walls, then a plain recommendation about what stays and what is at end of life.

Mission Hills · Historic estates

Mission Hills · technology that respects the architecture.

Mission Hills sits in eastern Johnson County, laid out in the 1910s and 1920s around the country club and still carrying the stone, slate and plaster of that era. Lots are deep and heavily treed, and many of the houses have been renovated two or three times without ever losing their original millwork. The village is a short drive north of our design center on Glenwood Avenue in Overland Park. The work here is retrofit inside a finished, protected house.

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Installing in Mission Hills

What is different about Mission Hills houses

Installing here is different because the walls fight back. Lath and plaster over solid framing does not take a fish tape the way drywall does, and the exterior masonry on many of these houses rules out the easy path around a corner. We survey the attic, the basement joist bays and the old chase runs before a blade touches a wall, then plan every drop on paper. Where a run genuinely cannot be made, we say so and design around it with wireless lighting rather than cutting an opening we cannot close cleanly.

The finishes are the reason people bought the house, so every visible device is a design decision rather than a detail. Original crown molding, leaded glass and paneled libraries do not forgive a keypad dropped in the wrong place. We size keypads to the existing switch boxes wherever the wiring allows, choose finishes alongside the homeowner's designer, and put architectural speakers into ceilings that a renovation already opened. In rooms still carrying original plaster we would rather add a discreet audio zone than cut a period ceiling.

Then there is the lot. Mature oaks and deep setbacks are the point of a Mission Hills property, and they are also why one router at one end of the house never reaches the third floor, the yard and the structure behind the garage. We cable access points to the corners the family actually uses, aim cameras at the drive rather than the street, and put the equipment somewhere with real air movement. Old houses hide racks in closets that were never designed to carry heat.

The kind of work we do in Mission Hills

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A whole-residence integration in Mission Hills, planned around finished plaster and original millwork
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Concealed architectural speakers placed in ceilings a renovation had already opened
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Lighting control brought into existing switch boxes so no period faceplate had to move

What we install in Mission Hills

The full integration stack — designed to disappear.

Whole-home automation (Control4)Lighting control (Lutron HomeWorks)Home theater + Dolby Atmos Distributed audio (NAD, Wisdom)Networking (Ubiquiti enterprise)Security + 4K surveillance Outdoor entertainment Golf simulators (Foresight)Custom video walls

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Written for Mission Hills, not for the metro

One page per system, one page per street.

Each of these covers what the work actually involves in Mission Hills — the housing stock, the routes a house of that age will give you, and what we have and have not built here.

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We wrote down the parts most people learn the expensive way.

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Questions from Mission Hills homeowners

Can you wire a 1920s Mission Hills house without tearing up the plaster?: In most cases, yes. We route through attics, basement joist bays and existing chases, and we walk the whole path before cutting anything. Where a clean route does not exist, we tell you rather than opening a wall we cannot close well, and we cover that room with wireless lighting or a different speaker approach. Plaster patching is planned into the job, not discovered halfway through.
How quickly can someone get here from your Overland Park office?: Our design center is on Glenwood Avenue in south Overland Park, a short drive down State Line or Mission Road from the village. Site walks in Mission Hills are usually scheduled within the same week, and service calls do not require anyone to cross the metro. Daniel walks the house himself before a proposal is written.
Our Wi-Fi dies on the third floor and in the back yard. Is that fixable in a house like this?: Usually, and usually without a single mesh puck sitting on a shelf. Thick plaster, stone and old chimney chases block a signal that would carry fine in a newer house. We cable access points to the floors and corners that need them, separate smart-home devices onto their own lane, and extend coverage to the yard and any structure behind the garage.
The company that installed our system is gone. Will you take it over?: Yes. We adopt Control4, Lutron and Crestron systems left behind by other integrators, and we service and maintain existing Savant systems even though we are not a Savant dealer. It starts with a site visit to document what is actually in the racks and walls, then a plain recommendation about what stays and what is at end of life.

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Tell us about your Mission Hills project.

Consultations are by appointment. We'll spend an hour walking through your space, talking about how you live, and sketching what's possible — at no cost, no pitch.

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