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A variety of appliances, such as home appliances and personal appliances, will be connected to the Internet in the near future, and the number of appliances with the Internet will be extremely large. The Internet provides connectivities among computers executing various services and applications for providing new advanced services to us. However, for connecting these appliances and services, traditional IP is not sufficient because these future appliances may require their own standard protocols like Jini and HAVi. Thus, the connectivity cannot be realized without protocol translation. Also, these appliances may require their own naming scheme, routing algorithm, and mobility/multicast supports. Therefore, it is preferable that these functionalities are customized according to respective applications. Since adding new functionalities to IP is too generic for most of applications, we believe that future networks should be customized according to the characteristics of respective applications.In this paper, we propose a virtual overlay network for seamlessly integrating networked home appliances. Virtual overlay networks enable us to build new application-specific networks on existing networks. Our virtual overlay network is specialized to access a variety of appliances on home networks from personal or home appliances on other home networks. The paper describes the motivation of our work, and the design and the current status of our virtual overlay network.We hope that the approach proposed in the paper is also useful to build virtual overlay networks for other applications, such as continuous media streaming or peer-to-peer storage systems.