Alpine
Two-acre estates on the Palisades
Most of the borough is zoned for two-acre lots, so an Alpine property is usually several buildings and a gate at the end of a long drive. We link them with fiber and run them as one system.
Bergen County, New Jersey
Bergen County Estates, Fully Integrated.
Lighting, shades, cinema, music, network, and security for the large homes of Alpine, Saddle River, Franklin Lakes, and the Northern Valley — designed, installed, and serviced by one team with an office in Fairview.
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In short
Cave Group designs, installs, and services lighting control, shades, audio-video, home cinema, networking, and security for estate homes across Bergen County, New Jersey — Alpine, Saddle River, Upper Saddle River, Franklin Lakes, Englewood Cliffs, Tenafly, Cresskill, Demarest, and Old Tappan among them. We are a Crestron Elite Gold Partner and Lutron Gold Dealer with an office in Fairview, and we handle new construction, renovations, and takeovers of existing Crestron, Lutron, and Savant systems.
How We Work Here
One Team, the Whole Property.
A large house is several projects at once: an architect’s drawings, a builder’s schedule, a designer’s finishes, and a dozen systems that have to answer to the same keypad. We carry the technology through all of it, and we are still there after the last trade leaves.
01 · Before Drawings Are Final
Designed With Your Team
We join the architect, builder, and designer at design development, so panel schedules, shade pockets, and the equipment room are on the drawings instead of discovered at framing.
02 · One System
Main House to Gatehouse
Lighting, shades, music, video, cameras, and the gate on one platform, carried between buildings on fiber. Our Alpine project ties a main house, pool house, and garage apartment into a single system.
03 · Existing Houses
Takeovers Done Properly
Bought a house with a system nobody can explain? We survey it, document it, replace what has aged out, and bring the rest under support.
04 · After Move-In
A Number That Answers
Cave Watch monitors the network and control system around the clock and fixes most faults remotely, often before you notice them.
Where We Work
Town by Town.
Bergen County’s large homes are not all the same problem. Lot sizes, the age of the houses, and how much is being torn down and rebuilt change what we design. Ten towns have their own page; the rest are covered here.
The Palisades & Northern Valley
From Englewood Cliffs north to Alpine and Rockleigh, along the top of the Palisades and down into the valley behind it. Two-acre estates at the northern end, large new houses on smaller lots at the southern end, and a great deal of rebuilding in between.
Englewood Cliffs
Large new houses on the Palisades
There is no estate zone here: the largest lots are 10,000 square feet, and the state counted 37 homes demolished between 2022 and 2024. Big houses, close together, where shades and well-behaved outdoor sound matter most.
Englewood
Century-old estates on the East Hill
The city’s two-acre zone is on the East Hill, where the master plan describes large homes on wooded lawns. The work is retrofit: lighting control, shades, and sound added so that nobody can tell it was done.
Tenafly
The East Hill and the most rebuilding in the county’s north
The state recorded 93 homes demolished here between 2022 and 2024, more than twice the number in Englewood Cliffs or Demarest. Most of our Tenafly work starts with an architect’s drawings.
Cresskill
Large homes from the 1990s and 2000s, due for renewal
State records show that the Cresskill homes sold at the top of the market between 2022 and 2024 were built from 1996 to 2014. Houses of that age often still run the control systems they were built with.
Demarest
A small borough being rebuilt street by street
The borough issued 159 demolition permits between 2013 and 2024, against 76 certificates of occupancy. Most of what we do here is new construction.
Old Tappan
New-build estates in the Northern Valley
We completed a new-build estate here in 2025, engaged from the blueprint stage: Lutron lighting and shading, Crestron control, UniFi networking and surveillance, distributed audio, and a dedicated cinema.
Closter
New construction beside an older village center
Steady new building on the borough’s larger lots. We work with builders here on pre-wire and with owners on upgrades to the systems they inherited.
Haworth
Established homes and two private golf clubs
Established homes on wooded lots. Most of what we do here is lighting control, shades, and networks added to finished houses.
Rockleigh
Two-acre zoning in a borough of fewer than a hundred homes
The borough’s only residential zone requires two-acre lots. Properties this size need the same treatment as Alpine: fiber between buildings, a gate on the system, and outdoor coverage planned with the site.
Saddle River Valley & the Northwest
Saddle River, its neighbors, and the lake communities of Franklin Lakes. Larger lots, and private wells and septic systems in Saddle River and some of its neighbors.
Saddle River
Two-acre lots, wells, and septic
Almost the whole borough is zoned for two acres, and the master plan records that most homes rely on private wells and septic systems. Everything we bury outdoors is routed around them.
Upper Saddle River
New construction sets the top of the market
The whole borough is zoned for lots of 37,500 square feet, and its record sale, in early 2026, was a house finished the year before. New houses are wired once; we make sure it is done properly.
Franklin Lakes
Acre lots around the lakes, half upgrade and half new build
Nearly half of the borough’s residential parcels are an acre or larger, and the state counted 43 homes demolished between 2022 and 2024. We upgrade the systems in the houses that stay and design new ones for the houses replacing them.
Ridgewood
Older houses and eleven historic districts
The village master plan records that about 85 percent of its housing was built before 1970. Nearly everything we do here is retrofit, installed so that the house looks untouched.
Ho-Ho-Kus
One-acre estate lots above an older village
The borough’s R-1 zone requires one-acre lots; the village center below is older and smaller in scale. We see both new construction and careful retrofits here.
Wyckoff
Established homes on half-acre lots
Mostly upgrades and additions: lighting control, shades, networks, and audio brought into houses that were not built with them.
Woodcliff Lake
Pascack Valley homes beside the reservoir
New houses and substantial renovations on the borough’s larger lots, usually with a builder we coordinate with from rough-in to move-in.
Mahwah
Rio Vista and the township’s northern estates
Rio Vista is a private community of about three hundred custom homes on one- to two-acre lots. We handle upgrades and new systems there as we do in Franklin Lakes.
What These Houses Ask For
Every System. One Keypad.
Lighting & Shades
Lutron HomeWorks, Ketra and Rania light, Palladiom keypads, and shades that disappear into the ceiling.
Lighting →Whole-Home Control
Crestron and Lutron on one set of keypads and touchscreens, programmed the same way in every house you own.
Residential →Cinema & Music
Dedicated theaters, media rooms, and music in every room without a speaker in sight.
Residential →Network
Enterprise Wi-Fi and fiber sized for a large house, guest houses, and the far end of the lawn.
Networking →Security & Gate
Cameras, access control, gate intercom, and an alarm that a UL-listed central station answers.
Security →Outdoors
Landscape lighting and outdoor sound on one buried infrastructure, on the same keypad as the house.
Outdoor →Upgrades
Older Crestron and Lutron systems brought current, reusing the wiring already in the walls wherever possible.
Upgrade paths →Support
Monitoring, remote fixes, and priority response under one plan.
Cave Watch →Our Work in the County
Two Houses, Start to Finish.
Old Tappan · 2025
New-Build Estate
Engaged at blueprint stage: Lutron HomeWorks QSX lighting and shading, Crestron control, UniFi networking and surveillance, distributed audio, and a dedicated cinema.
Read the project →Alpine · 2023
Multi-Building Estate
Main house, pool house, and garage apartment on one Lutron and Crestron system over fiber, with an outdoor cinema at the pool deck.
Read the project →For Architects, Builders, and Designers
We make your drawings easier to build.
- Working with Cave Group →
How we coordinate with architects, builders, and designers.
- When to bring us in →
What has to be decided before ceilings close.
- The pre-wire spec →
What to lock before drywall.
- What goes on the drawings →
A sheet-by-sheet checklist for lighting control, AV, and network.
- Rough-in for a spec estate →
What to build in before there is a buyer.
- Milestones a builder can hold →
The technology trade on the same dated gates as the electrician.
- Before millwork is ordered →
Keypad, shade, and fixture decisions in the right order.
- Landscape lighting and outdoor audio →
Who decides what when two trades share a trench.
Further Reading
Guides for Bergen County homeowners.
- Bergen County home technology buyer's guide →
- How to compare a HomeWorks QSX quote →
- Hiring a Crestron Elite Gold Partner in New Jersey →
- Monitored video for Bergen County homes →
- Buying a house that already has a system →
- Taking over a Savant or Control4 system →
- Lighting control without opening the walls →
- Sizing the rack room →
- Generator and UPS planning for the rack →
- Designing the gate, intercom, and plate camera →
- Sport court, simulator, and pool room AV →
- Support across more than one home →
Questions We Hear
Bergen County, Answered
Who installs Lutron and Crestron systems in Bergen County, NJ?+–
Cave Group does. We are a Crestron Elite Gold Partner and a Lutron Gold Dealer with an office in Fairview, Bergen County, and we design, install, and service lighting control, shades, audio-video, home cinema, networking, and security for homes across the county — Alpine, Saddle River, Upper Saddle River, Franklin Lakes, Englewood Cliffs, Englewood, Tenafly, Cresskill, Demarest, Closter, Old Tappan, and the towns around them.
Is Cave Group local to Bergen County?+–
Yes. Our New Jersey office is in Fairview, in Bergen County, with a second office in Long Island City, New York. The whole county is within easy reach of Fairview, which matters less on installation day than it does two years later, when a keypad stops responding on a Friday evening.
We are buying a house that already has a smart-home system. What should we ask for?+–
Ask the seller for the name of the company that installed it, the processor and panel models, the programming files, the administrator logins for the control system, network, and cameras, and any service records. Older Crestron and Lutron processors can often be kept and upgraded; some cannot be supported any longer. We can survey the house during your inspection period and tell you what is there, what still has a future, and what it would take to support it. How we support existing systems →
Do you take over systems another company installed?+–
Yes. We take over existing Crestron, Lutron, and Savant systems, and when a system can no longer be supported, whatever the brand, we plan a replacement that reuses the wiring already in the walls. It starts with a survey: we assess and document the equipment, recover or rebuild the programming, replace what has reached end of life, and bring the result under a Cave Watch support plan so the next problem has a phone number. Crestron upgrade paths →
How early should an integrator join a new build?+–
During design development, before the electrical and millwork drawings are final. Lighting control changes the panel schedule, shade pockets change the framing, and the equipment room needs space, cooling, and power that are cheap on paper and expensive after drywall. On our Old Tappan project we joined the design team at blueprint stage, which is the point where those decisions cost nothing. When to engage on new construction →
Will you work with our architect, builder, and interior designer?+–
That is how these houses get built. We produce drawings the architect can coordinate, a rough-in scope the builder can schedule, and keypad, shade, and fixture selections the interior designer can approve before millwork is ordered. If you already have a team, send us the drawings; if you are still assembling one, we can tell you what to ask each of them. For builders, architects, and designers →
Which Bergen County towns do you serve?+–
All of Bergen County, with a focus on the northern towns: Alpine, Closter, Cresskill, Demarest, Englewood, Englewood Cliffs, Tenafly, Old Tappan, Haworth, Saddle River, Upper Saddle River, Ho-Ho-Kus, Franklin Lakes, Wyckoff, Ridgewood, Mahwah, Woodcliff Lake, and Montvale. We also work across the Hudson in Manhattan and Westchester, which helps owners who keep a home on each side. All service areas →
What does a whole-home system cost in a house this size?+–
It depends on how many rooms are lit, shaded, and wired for sound and video, and on whether the house is new or occupied. We price from drawings, room by room, so you can see what each decision costs and cut or add with the numbers in front of you. If you are comparing proposals, make sure each one counts the same loads, shades, and rooms. How to compare a HomeWorks quote →
Who do we call after move-in?+–
Us. Cave Watch is our support program: round-the-clock remote monitoring of the network, control system, audio-video, and lighting, remote fixes and software updates, priority response, and an annual health check. UL-listed central-station alarm monitoring and live guard video monitoring can be added to the same plan. We also document every system we build or take over, so the next technician knows what is in the walls. Support and monitoring →
Start Here
Walk the House With Us.
Bring the drawings if the house is on paper, or the list of what no longer works if it is already built. We will tell you what we would do, in what order, and what it would take.
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