re: Building New House -- What additional amenities should I consider?

Best suggestions in this thread:

- a pot filler over the cooktop.
- conduits to all your tvs, especially tvs that will be placed on exterior walls with insulation. I did this when I built my house and it saved me when I installed a Roku on my master bedroom tv and it needed a cat 6 drop for network access. Made fishing the cable no problems at all. It was Cat 6 this time. No telling what I will need to run in the future.

In addition to running conduit, I have a tv mounted above my fireplace and I knew I would have no access behind it to run new cables so I added 2 inch PVC that runs from behind the tv to the built in cabinet that houses all the entertainment center equipment. I have used that conduit more than once to add cat 6 and a hdmi cable to the tv. Something to think about if you will have your tv above the fireplace.

- have Cat 6 drops to every room and at every tv.

- save money and do not get phone lines dropped in every room. You only need one for a base phone unit that can have multiple handsets synced to it. Get a second phone drop near your network equipment if you want to use a VOIP telephone provider like Vonage.

- have a central location for all your network connections. I used the top 2 shelves of a hall closet for my cable modem, router, 25 port switch and all the cat 6 drops in the house are wired into that closet.