Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Imagine your house having the ability to ease your morning routine: When your alarm rings, soft-hued light fills the bathroom and illuminates a path to the kitchen, where gentle music streams and a kettle of boiling water sits, ready for tea or coffee. With the swipe of a cellphone app, a smart window in the living room transforms from opaque to transparent, letting in sunrise views. As you leave for work, you speak a single command that locks all doors and activates a security system.

Many of us can envision the Jetsons living in a home with futuristic features like these, but for homeowner Hannah Kennedy, smart home living is a presentday reality.

Kennedy lives not in Orbit City, but in Reynolds Landing, a neighborhood in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover, Alabama. Walking around to admire the handsome new construction