I'm Geno Turner — a software developer of 31 years, and the person behind every part of FacadeThemes.
It started with a simple itch: I've always wanted to do something a little different in the neighborhood — not the same lights and inflatables everyone else puts out for the holidays. So I started researching ways to stand out, and that's how I discovered projection mapping — and ultimately HeavyM, the software that brought it within reach. The first time I turned my plain facade into something that made the whole street stop and look, I was hooked.
And it worked. That very first Christmas — with just three weeks to map my house and pull together a couple of shows — my home won Best in the Neighborhood. The exact thing I'd set out to do, I'd pulled off on my first try.
I went deep. I learned HeavyM inside and out — I'm now an official HeavyM Ambassador — dialed in projectors, masking, and mapping, and started running full shows on my own home for every occasion: Halloween, Christmas, Easter, the Fourth of July, even a Memorial Day tribute. Before long, neighbors and clients were asking for shows of their own.
So I built the whole operation, end to end. On the hardware side, I engineered weatherproof, autonomous outdoor rigs — integrated mini-PCs, FM audio so people hear the soundtrack right on their radio, secure all-weather mounting — so a show can run on its own, night after night, rain or shine.
But I kept slamming into the same wall, and it was never the mapping software. It was the assets. Every new house and every new theme meant starting from a blank canvas — a concept, then the video loops, props, textures, and masks to bring it to life. It was the slowest, most draining part of every project, and it's exactly what stops most people from ever getting started.
So I did what three decades as a developer trained me to do: I built the tool I wished existed. FacadeThemes takes a single photo of a house and, in minutes, proposes complete themes and generates the exact assets to map them — so you spend your time projecting, not staring at an empty timeline. The assets are standard files, so they drop into HeavyM, MadMapper, or whatever tool you already use.
It all comes back to that first itch: the want to do something different — something that makes people stop and smile. My goal now is to put that within reach of anyone who wants to bring their own facade to life.
— Geno TurnerFounder, FacadeThemes LLC