otium (n.) the Roman word for time that belongs to you. Everything we design exists to give you more of it.
We don’t install electronics. We design environments.
A technology design group — an interior designer, for everything electronic — serving the finest residences, restaurants, and workplaces in North Texas.
Formerly H Customs Audio Video · Est. 2004 · Fort Worth Magazine — Faces of Fort Worth 2026
The house follows.
So does this site.One button, and the whole room changes. Imagine your whole home.
Different rooms. Different rules. One design language.
A great room is a great room — whether it seats a family of five or a Friday-night crowd of two hundred. Each division speaks its industry fluently; all of them draw on the same eight disciplines and the same design team.
The Residence Division
The Hospitality Division
The Commercial Division
Otium Security
For builders, architects & interior designers — our Design Studio reviews blueprints, engineers full low-voltage documentation, and joins your project team from the first drawing set.
Everything you don’t see is the point.
Touch the markers. A room we design looks like an interior designer finished it — because the technology was drawn into the architecture, not added to it.
Five systems live in this room.
None of them announce themselves. Tap any glowing point to see what was designed into the architecture before the drywall went up.
Explore the DisciplineYour home, running itself. Drag the day and watch.
This is what automation actually means — not gadgets, but a home that keeps a schedule so you don’t have to. Shades track the sun. Light follows the hour. Security arms itself at bedtime.
- Shades rise with sunrise and lower against the West Texas afternoon heat — automatically.
- Interior lighting warms and dims as the evening settles in.
- Coastal Source landscape lighting renders the architecture at dusk.
- One touch of Goodnight closes shades, cuts the lights, and arms security.
Every system in the space. One considered whole.
Most companies install equipment. We compose environments. These eight disciplines serve every division — home, restaurant, bar, or boardroom. Choose one to see how deep it goes.
The specification is the design.
Any dealer can list logos. A design group publishes its specification — the exact instruments we reach for, and where each one belongs. This is ours, tier by tier.
The Frame — art on the wall until the moment it isn’t. Our most-loved television, paired with a Leon Framebar in designer finishes.
Designer FavoriteNeo QLED, 65"–98" — the workhorse of our great rooms and media walls in 4K at every scale.
House StandardBravia OLED — reference black levels for rooms where the picture is the point.
House StandardDLA-RS Series laser projection — our reference projector for dedicated theaters. Nothing at the price renders film like it.
Otium ReserveXW5000 & XW6000 laser projection — where true cinema begins.
FoundationThe Premiere LS9 ultra-short-throw — 130 inches of cinema from a Salamander cabinet, no ceiling mount, no projection room.
Living-Room CinemaZero Edge and motorized screens — the frame disappears; the image doesn’t.
House StandardSDP-58 processor, SDA amplification, SCL loudspeakers — a fully engineered reference room from a single bloodline.
Otium ReserveBE Series in-walls — bespoke, sequentially numbered, built to the room.
Otium ReserveFathom subwoofers, freestanding or in-wall — the low end our reference rooms are anchored on.
Otium ReserveConcert processors with Dirac Live — the best room correction in the industry, tuned by our calibrators.
House StandardAVR31 / Cinema Series — honest, musical electronics for media rooms that work as hard as they play.
FoundationTheater seating and AV furniture — comfort engineered like the equipment it holds.
House StandardDirector Collection in-ceilings — our backbone for whole-home music and surround.
House StandardSmall Aperture SA Series — a coin-sized ceiling opening, a room-sized sound.
Otium ReserveInvisible Series — installed, mudded, painted. Music from a wall with nothing on it.
The Vanishing ActFramebar and SoundTiles — hand-built in Michigan, finished like furniture, matched to your designer’s palette.
Designer FavoriteArchitect Series amplification — high-current power sized to every zone in the house.
House StandardBollard systems and ribbon landscape speakers — the high-water mark of outdoor audio, and our favorite thing to demo.
Otium ReserveBollard in-grounds with integrated subwoofers — 180° or 360° coverage rising from the landscape itself.
House StandardBollard audio and solid-brass lighting on one buried, plug-and-play backbone — built for decades outdoors.
Otium ReserveLandscape LS Series with subwoofer and amplification — even coverage across lawns, pools, and patios.
House StandardThe Terrace with Terrace Soundbar — full-sun and partial-sun outdoor television, 65"–85".
House StandardExplorer Series — marine-rated speakers for covered patios and cabanas.
FoundationInvisible Series speakers — plastered into the wall, gone forever, playing beautifully.
The Vanishing ActSmall Aperture — when the interior designer says "no grilles," this is our answer.
The Vanishing ActEclipse art lifts — a painting on the wall until the movie starts.
The Vanishing ActFrameBar in custom wood and fabric — sound dressed by a designer.
Designer FavoritePalladiom keypads and shades — the control hardware interior designers photograph.
Otium ReserveFathom in-wall subwoofers — full-scale bass from inside a stud bay.
The Vanishing ActEvery specification begins with your room, your acoustics, and your budget — this collection is the palette, not the prescription.
Designed on the blueprint. Not bolted on after.
This is the Design Studio — the reason we call ourselves a design group. Our in-house team reviews blueprints with you, engineers every system in professional design software, and hands your builder full low-voltage documentation before a single wall closes. Like an interior designer, for everything electronic.
Discover
We sit down with you — and your architect and builder — to understand how you actually live, room by room.
Design
Blueprint review and full system engineering with complete documentation for every trade on site.
Prewire
Structured wiring at exactly the right construction stage — clean, labeled, photographed, future-proofed.
Integrate
Systems installed, programmed, and calibrated into one coherent whole — then walked through with you personally.
Support
Remote monitoring, proactive service, and a team that has answered the phone in DFW since 2004.
Control4 · Lutron · Josh.AI
Sony · Samsung · JVC · Screen Innovations
JBL Synthesis · James Loudspeakers · Origin Acoustics · Sonance · Leon Speakers · JL Audio · AudioControl · Arcam · Marantz · 1 SOUND · Salamander Designs
Coastal Source · Ambisonic
Progressive Magnatrack · Rowley
Alarm.com · Ubiquiti
Founder-led since 2004. Same standards. Same phone number.
The Otium Group began in Fort Worth in 2004 as H Customs Audio Video and grew into what North Texas hadn’t seen before: a technology design group. Twenty-one years later we’re still founder-led, still based in Fort Worth, and still the ones who answer when a client from 2005 calls.
Recognized in Fort Worth Magazine’s Faces of Fort Worth 2026 for Smart Living. We accept a limited number of design commissions each year — because every one carries our name for decades.
The best showroom is a finished room.
Hear an Otium room tonight: our systems play nightly at Quince Riverside, Dos Mares, and Don Artemio in Fort Worth, and Quince Lakeside in Austin. Or press the scene keypad at the top of this page — that feeling, at full scale, is what we build.
Visit the Venues
The best technicians in DFW should be doing the best work in DFW.
We’re a tight team trusted in the Metroplex’s finest homes for over two decades. If you take pride in a clean rack, a perfect prewire, and a client who calls you by name — we should talk.
Integration Technicians & System Designers
Experience with Control4, Lutron, or structured wiring preferred. We invest in training, certification, and the kind of projects worth putting your name on.
Introduce YourselfBuilding or remodeling? Start the conversation early.
The best time to design your home’s technology is before the walls close. The second-best time is now.
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Tell us about the build, the remodel, or the room — we’ll come to the table with your architect and builder.
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