Home of the Year Project Profile
- Name & Location: Tampa Game Room, Brooksville, Florida
- Integrator: Innovative Sight & Sound, Tampa Bay, Florida
- Award: Home of the Year, Best Home Office/Gaming Space, Gold
This Brooksville, Florida residence combines high-performance technology with a refined regional aesthetic to create a golf simulator/game room that redefines multigenerational living. Innovative Sight & Sound’s Tampa office worked on the project with the goal of fitting realistic golf simulation and theater-grade screening into a compact footprint. This meant the space needed to shift from a tour-level golf suite to a state-of-the-art home theater. The finished room brings together work, family play and luxury entertainment.
Sourcing an impact-grade alligator finish for Florida golf simulator
At the heart of the room is a custom-engineered golf simulator with a multi-textured turf layout. It includes distinct fairway lies, a faux rough area and a faux sand trap, which give players authentic, varied conditions usually reserved for much larger commercial installations.
To align with the home’s regional aesthetic, the design specified custom-dyed faux alligator skin fabric for the enclosure’s impact-absorbing perimeter surfaces. Finding a specialty supplier that could match the client’s exact color and texture, and also provide a material that could withstand repeated high-velocity golf ball strikes, proved exceptionally difficult.
To avoid compromising on longevity or design intent, the integrator led extensive research and technical coordination. The team worked directly with textile manufacturers, trade partners and the interior designer to test fabric backing and durability.
Careful planning and tight cross-trade collaboration made the integration of the custom fabric a success. The walls provide impact protection with no compromises and a striking visual finish that ties the simulator into the room’s overall design.
From tee box to theater
Custom stadium seating placed directly behind the hitting zone lets the room work as a high-impact theater for cinematic viewing, whether the family is watching a movie or a game.
The project shows how creative spatial planning and tailored technology can turn a single room into a dynamic, all-in-one residential sanctuary where functionality meets effortless style.
Equipment list:
- Golf Simulator
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- Pro Golf custom built in enclosure with impact screen
- Carl’s Place Fiberbuilt studio golf mat, custom wall panels, built in screen kit, foam insert kit, custom screen system
- Uneekor Eye XO2 launch monitor with Performance Optix package
- GSPro simulator software subscription
- Gaming PC with 27″ monitor, Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse, DisplayPort to HDMI adapter
- Custom simulator turf, thicker rough and sand rough turf, custom hitting mat, recessed putting cup
- UBS undulation foam risers
- Floating shelf, high speed camera mounts, USB repeater cable
- Video and Projection
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- Sony laser projector with short throw lens
- Strong projector mounts, extension poles, cathedral ceiling adapter, ceiling couplers, adjustable pole
- Bullet Train active optical HDMI cable
- Binary 4K HDMI cables
- Theater Audio and Video
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- Sony 7.2 channel 8K AV receiver
- Klipsch in ceiling speakers
- JL Audio sealed in wall subwoofers, grilles, subwoofer amplifier and processor
- Sony Bravia 5 Mini LED TVs
- Strong dual arm articulating TV mounts
- Apple TV 4K streamer
- AVPro Edge audio extender kits
- Binary Toslink cables
- Bowers & Wilkins pre mount kits for in ceiling speakers
- Control
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- Control4 CORE 1 controller, wireless antenna kit, 10″ tabletop touchscreen
- Control4 Connect subscription, client supplied
- Lighting
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- DMF Lighting surface mount cylinder, Artafex adjustable downlights, recessed LED downlights
- Proluxe RGBW pixel tape light and LED driver
- Shading
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- Lutron Triathlon motorized roller shades in blackout and architectural fascia versions, custom fascia
- Lutron Smart Bridge Pro, Pico remotes, wallplates, wallplate adapter
This project is part of our coverage for the 2026 CE Pro Home of the Year Awards. Presented annually at CEDIA Expo alongside the BEST Product Awards, the Home of the Year Awards represent the best of the best smart home innovations within the CEDIA channel. Check to see when the next submission window is open in case you have a project you would like to submit and don’t want to miss your opportunity.
