Linked by David Adams on Wed 21st Jan 2004 22:52 UTC
If all goes well, this summer I'll be building a new house. I've owned a few houses before, some of them built in the 1920s and 30s, and full of all the charm and quirks of an old house, and a couple that were pretty new, with the lack of craftsmanship and imagination that's typical in most new construction in the USA today. But this time I'm building a custom home, just to my specifications, so I can have whatever features I want, limited only by my imagination (and budget). I'd like to integrate some home automation features into the house, and include wiring for future expansion. 
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We built an embarrasingly large home four years ago, with every room having CAT5, phone and video cables, plus a LiteTouch automated lighting system, video and audio server, etc. After we had moved in, we found we needed a few more wires...
However, disaster was avoided because I had specified that all rooms have 1" rigid PVC conduits or flex-tubing which ended up in a "distribution closet", so that any point in the house could be wired to any other. If I had to do it again, I would add more conduit. Someday I might want fiber...