Upgrading a place with home automation technology. This will usually include a whole-house audio system, network-based thermostat control, touch screen computer interfaces, home surveillance, and motion-sensitive lighting.
I just finished technovating my house. I can access my music and movies from anywhere in the house, check up on my home security from work, and even control the thermostat over the internet!
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2million.