When Bob and Nancy Malone broke ground on their dream home in Lake Arrowhead, California, in 2002, they had no idea just how challenging it would be. Nancy's lifelong desire to have a home theater called for the help of Aaron Andrew of Audio Video Design (AVD), based in Mission Viejo, California, to design a home theater within, but structurally independent from, the 14,000-square-foot house. Aside from the three-hour round trip between Mission Viejo and Lake Arrowhead, Mother Nature threw her best at them, as well. After "the old fire" of 2003, which destroyed 350 houses in nearby Cedar Glen (and approached within feet of the back of the Malone house before a wind shift sent the flames east), the Malones faced a tremendous flood in December 2004, and then snow. As if that wasn't enough, the house's location on a mountainside presented a whole new set of logistical problems. After all was said and done, the project took three-and-a-half years to complete.
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