Using traditional lock and key deadbolts is so 2012. Now you can program and monitor your home security from…wherever! If you wake up in the morning and feel like espresso instead of your normal java, just tell the coffeemaker from your smartphone. You can control lighting, heat, security, surveillance cameras, and even your pet’s feeding station right from your phone. Here’s 10 very cool ways to use your phone to control, and hopefully simplify, your Cape Cod home.

Use a smartphone to control your home

   Glass has served it's traditional role in homes for hundreds of years.  Whether as a window or door, Glass has proven itself as an effective weather barrier and inexpensive way to let natural light into a space.  Over the last 20 years, advanced glass materials have been used as cook tops and even counter tops, but this is not the end of the line for this material.  Corning is working on new advanced types of glass that will provide unimaginable options for your new home in the future.  In the very near future, you will see things light light-sensitive glass that can shade a room on a sunny day, or even glass countertops that can serve as a display for your computer or smart phone.  Here is a video we found from Corning that gives you a peek at what is next for Glass...It is not just for windows anymore, and if you are thinking of building a Custom Home on Cape Cod, you should take a look!