THE KSN DREAM HOUSE FOR THE CURE

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The Dream House home theater

by Leon Smitherman
KSN News

WICHITA, Kansas -- This week, KSN is introducing a new community project to help fight breast cancer. More than 30 companies have joined us to build a dream house. That includes a dream theater room.

Dynatek is one of more than 30 companies that have agreed to donate time, materials and labor to build the KSN Dream House for the Cure. The goal is for all of the home to be built with donated materials, every inch of it. When it's finished, all the proceeds will go to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Dynatek is the company that is going to be installing the high-tech home theater, security and sound system into the KSN Dream House for the Cure. Richard Cooksey, owner of Dynatek, talked with us about that. [Please watch video for the many options the Dream House can have]

Modern homes are designed around modern lifestyles. What worked 20 or 30 years ago isn't necessarily what buyers of custom homes are looking for now. Today families live in their kitchens, entertain in their basements and want all the high tech gadgets built into their homes.

Kitchens are such an important part of overall home design.

"What we try to design with our home is to create the kitchen to where the family is living where they are dining, watching television. People would like their kitchens to be a showplace," said Cherie Nies-Cowgill, Nies Homes. "And as you go into the owner's suite bathroom, people like a custom spa feel so we've created the wall of glass -- glass tiles are very popular today. The big, oversized showers -- we've got two shower head's in this shower."

That's what builders and buyers are wanting today.

If the bathroom is a spa, then the basement is a nightclub. One thing Cheri kept mentioning over and over in the homes that they are building -- and I've noticed in this model home -- there are speakers through out the house for stereo entertainment.

"There is a master system and you can do MP3's, you can have radio -- what ever you like."

And we've saved the best for last -- the theater room -- which is kind of the new version of the "man cave".

"KSN told us the only request they have is that we get a theater room in this house so that is what we are designing the house around -- it's the theater room," said Cheri. "This is a 100-inch screen with a projector up there and the sound that comes out is incredible."

We invite you to join us Friday at 5:00pm. We'll show you the reason why KSN and more than 30 other companies are taking on this project. We'll talk to breast cancer survivors and the volunteers who will use the proceeds from the KSN Dream House for the Cure to change lives.

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