Lighting

Lighting creates a mood, a feeling and a visual treat. A lighting control system can combine all of these feelings, and a simple way to access them. The simplest way to describe a lighting control system is that it allows you to control all of your home lighting from master controls, your smart phone or tablet, or home automation system.

One room systems consist of a simple preset dimming control that allows you to control four lighting circuits, and create four “scenes”. For example: one button press will blend the light levels of each zone to create four pre-determined (preset) combinations of light levels (scenes) for different room uses. Each preset is easily recalled at the touch of a button.

For Whole House Lighting Control, there is a similar solution giving you complete control at the touch of a single button. The lighting system uses “smart” dimmers, switches, along with master control keypads located in key areas throughout your home.

Lighting control addresses the following areas:

• CLUTTER

  One of the most desirable aspects of a lighting control system, is that one sleek master control pad can eliminate the need for banks of switches normally found in certain areas like the foyer, kitchen and master bedroom. These attractive controls can be 5 or 10 buttons in a single gang box reducing cluttered real estate for a cleaner, simpler look.

• AMBIANCE

  Press one button to create an atmosphere for your guests, and later that evening, change the mood by pressing another button that will control different lighting scenes in different areas, including outdoors.

• Energy Savings

  A lighting control system can help you save energy and money. A light bulb dimmed by 10% will lower energy consumption and increase the life span of the bulb. Additionally, the human eye has difficulty detecting the difference between 100% and 90%, so not only can lowering a light level be cost effective, it can be transparent.

• SAFETY

  The PATHWAY button on the master control keypad automatically recalls an illuminated “path of light”, towards the final destination in your home. You no longer have to worry about which switch control which light. A single button controls everything.

• SECURITY

  At the push of a button, the Vacation Memory Mode will memorize your lighting patterns and automatically replay them to simulate occupancy while you’re on vacation. When linked to your security system, can be programmed to turn on, or flash lights, to increase the visibility of your home.

Motorized Shading

Motorized window treatments allow effortless control of natural light and are nearly silent while in operation. Whether a window has roller shades, roman shades, or drapes, we can design an appealing solution for your home.

Motorized shades not only make a home more livable and comfortable, they also provide UV protection and lower energy costs. With a wide variety of designer fabric choices, unique expertise in the design of motorized window treatments, and skillful technology integration.

Since home automation control systems are very popular today, often the shade & drapery controls are integrated within your control’s touchscreen. This further eliminates wall clutter…putting all of your home’s subsystem controls (lighting, music, climate, security, etc.) within combined, intuitive touchscreen controls. Using the internal “smarts” of a home automation system, your shades or drapery can open and close automatically based on an event such as your home reaching a preset temperature, thereby saving energy. Smart home control systems even know (based on your home’s location) where the sun is located in the sky at any given moment and can lower blinds or close drapery to protect the home from unwanted heat gain and to protect fabrics from sun damage.

Your home or business’s shading and window treatments can be integrated into an overall centralized control system, automating their movement thus making them completely effortless. Your shades can be lowered just before the sun is about to enter the room, thus reducing energy usage and preventing UV damage to flooring and furniture. Shading can also be utilized as a setting for when you leave on vacation.

There are a wide variety of drapery / shade control options to suit your needs and lifestyle. When combined with a lighting control system, these controls are integrated within an easy to use screen or keypad. This eliminates unnecessary wall clutter and simplifies operation. Preset buttons instantly recall your favorite shade or drapery position, and these keypads are available in a wide variety of styles, colors, and finishes to complement your décor.