Private Cinema & Media Rooms
Theaters engineered to disappear into the architecture and emerge only when the curtain rises.
PAVE curates bespoke lighting, shading, audio, video, networking, and security ecosystems for distinguished residences.
Discreet. Engineered. Exceptional.
A distinguished residence is not a house with technology added. It is an environment engineered from the first line on the plans, where illumination, architecture, and intelligence converge until the technology itself disappears into the experience. The client should see none of it and feel all of it. PAVE is the invisible infrastructure of the life being lived.
PAVE is a consulting and engineering firm. We design private technology environments for residences, theaters, amenity spaces, and the businesses that ask for the same standard. Our work begins on the architect's drawings and continues through the life of the home.
The firm was founded by Frank Mongiello after thirty years on jobsites. His second day in the trade, he was pulling cable in Dominique Wilkins's theater. He never lost the apprentice's instinct to disappear into the work, and he built PAVE around that same instinct.
We are formal in writing and warm in person. We are technically literate without performing it. We sit with architects, interior designers, and builders as peers, and we leave the homeowner's pride to the rooms themselves.
"We are not really selling boxes, even though we sell boxes."
Frank Mongiello, Founder
Every residence is engineered as a single environment. The disciplines below are how we organise the work, not how we organise the room. The room knows none of them.
Theaters engineered to disappear into the architecture and emerge only when the curtain rises.
The room wakes at sunrise. The room rests at dusk. The technology behind that is never the point.
Every space, the right sound. Every screen, the right picture. Nothing visible until it is needed.
The infrastructure the rest of the residence runs on. Specified once. Built to outlast its technology.
A discreet layer of protection, integrated with the home rather than bolted onto it.
One way to live in the residence. Lighting, climate, audio, video, security, access. One ecosystem.
When a client calls, the problem goes away. That is the contract, not the upgrade.
The technology disappears by design, not by retrofit. Before the walls close, before the lighting plan is signed, we sit with your architect and your interior designer and specify every cable path, every junction, every conduit. The finish is the point. We make sure it stays the point, with an entire ecosystem running quietly inside it.
Coordinated with the architect's drawings and the interior designer's finish schedule, so nothing has to be cut back into the home later.
We work with the builder, the lighting designer, and the millworker on a weekly cadence, holding the technology to the same standard as the joinery.
Every scene, every keypad, every screen, set against the way the family lives. Then a service relationship that lasts as long as the residence does.
We work for the homeowner, with the architect and the designer, and alongside the builder. The voice changes with the audience. The standard does not.
Private homes where the technology is expected to be present, perform flawlessly, and never ask for attention. We work across Middle Tennessee and travel for the right project.
We are designer-fluent and architect-literate. We protect design intent through every phase, and we have taught classes on the art of hiding technology because the finish is the point.
MDU amenity spaces and executive-floor residences. We specify against thirty years of catalog decisions that still work, so the building ages and the ecosystem inside it does not.
A new website is being prepared, and the work continues alongside it. If you are an architect, designer, builder, or homeowner with a residence in mind, we would be glad to hear from you.