In order to complete your submission, you'll need the following information:

• Project details
• Award category
• Equipment list
• Project contributors
• Project photos
• Permission to publish photographs and information about the entry (professional photography preferred)

Any home installation project that was completed between January 1, 2011 and February 3, 2012. The home must be completed and occupied, and photographs available to show the results.

Custom electronics installation firms, PR agencies, manufacturers may enter, provided all of the project submission information is completed as required.

$199 US for the first early bird entry (by January 6, 2012), $299 US for the first entry, $50 for each additional entry. Dealers are encouraged to check with their manufacturers to see if co-op dollars are available.

Early bird deadline is January 6, 2012. Final deadline for submissions is February 3, 2012.

Winners will be notified via email in early March and Awards will be presented at EHX 2012.

If you have any questions or need more information, please call our help line at (508) 663-1500 x295 or email homeoftheyear@ehpub.com.

Please click on a category name for more details and tips for entering.

• Best Home of the Year: Integrated Home of the Year (by price range)
• Best Fun Room/Rec Room
• Best Outdoor Space
• Best Master Suite
• Best Media Room/Family Room
• Best Dedicated Home Theater (by price range)
• Best Themed Home Theater (no price range)
• Best Before & After
• Best Amazing Application

The Electronic House editorial and art staffs consider all aspects involved in an installation, such as project creativity, innovation, equipment incorporated, obstacles overcome, homeowner priorities met, aesthetics and lifestyle benefits.

This is for the best whole-house installation that includes home control as well as other electronics throughout the home such as distributed audio and video. Remember, this does not mean the biggest house, it means the "best." Please tell us what makes this whole house install unique and worthy of the "Best Home of the Year." Share with us what the homeowner asked of you and the lifestyle benefits they are now enjoying. Share with us any challenges you faced during the installation as well as how you overcame them.

Just what it says -- fun! We've seen bowling alley rooms, disco rooms, indoor pools, and much more. If it's fun -- we want to see it. Share with us what the homeowner asked of you and the lifestyle benefits they are now enjoying since completed. Share with us any challenges you faced during the installation as well as how you overcame them.

The "other room." There is a footnote to this one: If this space is not in a warm climate and you don't already have professional photography already, we will not be able to consider it for this year because we wouldn't be able to photograph the install this winter. Submit it for next year though! We are taking into consideration all submitted last year. Share with us what the homeowner asked of you and the lifestyle benefits they are now enjoying since completed. Share with us any challenges you faced during the installation as well as how you overcame them.

This can be just the bedroom or a combination of bed and bath (closets, etc.). Share with us what the homeowner asked of you and the lifestyle benefits they are now enjoying since completed. Share with us any challenges you faced during the installation as well as how you overcame them.

Fun and games, movies and family gathering -- a multi-purpose room (there is a separate area for dedicated home theaters). Share with us what the homeowner asked of you and the lifestyle benefits they are now enjoying since completed. Share with us any challenges you faced during the installation as well as how you overcame them.

The dedicated home theater entries are broken into price-ranges. We know this is difficult since you might have been involved with some, but not all of the project. The price of the theater should include the electronics, seating, acoustics, build-out and labor (pretty much the whole thing). If the space was an existing one, and no new build-out was needed, please note that. This serves our reader best. Share with us what the homeowner asked of you and the lifestyle benefits they are now enjoying since completed. Share with us any challenges you faced during the installation as well as how you overcame them.

Our readers love seeing themed home theaters! This is not broken into price ranges, but please do provide us with the final price. The price of the theater should include the electronics, seating, acoustics, build-out and labor (pretty much the whole thing). This serves our reader best. Share with us what the homeowner asked of you and the lifestyle benefits they are now enjoying since completed. Share with us any challenges you faced during the installation as well as how you overcame them.

A new category this year. Sometimes the project you are working on shows a dramatic difference from when you started to the final outcome. We need to see the "before" pictures as well as the "after" pictures for this one. Share with us what the homeowner asked of you and the lifestyle benefits they are now enjoying since completed. Share with us any challenges you faced during the installation as well as how you overcame them.

Perhaps you did not equip an entire home or even a complete room with home technology, but you want to boast about a specific application you implemented. For example: a security system you designed to thwart racoons, a monitoring system for an elderly person living independently, or some clever work with motors and TV mounts. Electronic House will pick several finalists from this category to use in the "EH Ideas" section in every issue of the magazine.