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Smart Home Lighting & Motorized Shading

See your home in an entirely new light

Lighting Design

Feeling truly at home in an environment requires more than comfortable furniture and a pleasing color palette. Our home lighting services add depth and detail to your décor, highlighting architectural features and showcasing art. The right lighting draws attention to your home’s best features and subtly downplays weaker ones. Both an art and a science, our lighting design solutions ensure your home shines in every way.

Why hire a
lighting designer?

Why risk not hiring one? Lighting isn’t just a functional element of design; it’s central to living—bolstering mood, calming the soul, setting the stage for parties, or helping you focus on work. Our custom lighting design services integrate technical and creative aspects, offering an impressive—and essential—array of skills:
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  • Knowledgeable about the latest lighting technology and trends
  • Trained to transform light into dynamic architectural design
  • Schooled in physics, optics, electricity, codes and environmental impact
  • Adept at reducing equipment costs through competitive bids and manufacturer partnerships
  • Able to identify lighting techniques that will reduce equipment and labor costs
  • Attuned to the requirements of the home and the preferences of its owners.

Color Temperatures at a Glance

Lighting Tones

1,700 K

Red lighting reminiscent of a match flame offers a calming effect in the evening.

2,700 - 3,300 K

Elevate warm interior colors and wood finishes with warm, soft white lighting.

4,100 - 4,150 K

Stay focused on tasks in workspaces or kitchens with cool, white lighting.

5,500 - 6,000 K

Enjoy vertical daylight hues in the afternoon to stimulate your mood and décor.

6,500 K

Deliver lighting in main living areas with hues reminiscent of overcast skies.

15,000 - 27,000 K

Reserve clear blue lighting for activities that require ample energy or focus.

1,850 K

Craft the perfect date night light with romantic candlelit or sunset hues.

3,000 K

Facilitate relaxation with neutral white lighting while reading in the family room.

5,000 K

Employ crisp-white daylight hues to highlight artwork and bolster security.

6,200 K

Blue-white light mimics natural sunlight and delivers bright, energizing illumination.

6,500 - 10,500 K

Turn to blue hues for hyper-focused task lighting in your primary workspaces.
Lighting Tones

1,700 K

Match flames & low-pressure sodium lamps

2,700 - 3,300 K

Incandescent lamps & soft-white flourescent lamps

4,100 - 4,150 K

Moonlight; cool-white lamps

5,500 - 6,000 K

Vertical daylight

6,500 K

Daylight; overcast fluorescent lamps

15,000 - 27,000 K

Daylight; overcast fluorescent lamps

1,850 K

Candle Flame, sunrise, sunset

3,000 K

Warm-white fluorescent lamos

5,000 K

Horizon daylight

6,200 K

Xenon short-arc lamp

6,500 - 10,500 K

LCD or CRT Screen

Essential Layers of Light

A mix of ambient, task, and accent lighting forms the core of our whole-home lighting solutions. Layering light sources helps reduce eye strain, minimize shadows, and soften the edges of rigid spaces, creating visually balanced, flexible environments.
Ambient Light
Soft lighting from natural sunlight, recessed ceiling lights or pendants illuminates the entire room.
Task Lighting
Special pendant, desk or under-cabinet lights provided bright, focused illumination for specific activities.
Accent Lighting
Highlight artwork, photos and architectural details with lighting three ties brighter ghan ambient fixtures.
  • Daytime

    Optimize focus and concentration in your home office with bright white-blue ambient lights and desk lights. For added convenience, integrate the settings into a “Daytime” lighting scene that automatically activates weekday mornings at 9 AM.

  • Bedtime

    Prepare for restorative sleep with a “Bedtime” lighting scene, activated by a bedside remote or tablet. Lights will dim gradually, casting the room in a warm, orange hue that induces relaxation.

  • Entertaining

    Want to keep guests energized? Activate your “Party” lighting scene and illuminate the kitchen and living room with a white-blue hue. Augment the scene with landscape lighting that prompts guests to explore your outdoor spaces.

  • Movie Night

    Recessed lights and decorative sconces dim. Floor track lighting illuminates. It all happens when you activate “Movie Night” on your handheld remote or touchpad.

Lighting Control

The easier your lighting is to control, the more readily you can transform your environment. Our home lighting services include centralized lighting solutions that simplify installation, reduce clutter, and allow you to manage your lighting effortlessly.

Interfaces

High-end lighting systems feature personalized interfaces available on dedicated touchpads or mobile apps. Easy-to-use graphic menus show the status of lights in each room, allowing you to make changes with a simple button tap. You can adjust intensity, color, and color temperature for fixtures individually or in groups and save your favorite settings for effortless control.

Processor

As the heart of your lighting system, the processor ensures clear, uninterrupted communication between your control devices and lighting fixtures without any lag. Input a command from any source, and you’ll receive an immediate and accurate response. We’ll help you choose the right processor for your system, considering bandwidth and processing power to meet your specific needs.

Dimming Panels

Professional lighting systems feature centralized dimming panels, routing all dimming and control capabilities through remote panels installed out of sight in an equipment room or utility closet. These panels reduce wall clutter, simplify wiring infrastructure, and allow for advanced programming capabilities while also controlling fans and motors.

Smart Dimmers/Switches

Reduce clutter even further with smart dimmers and switches that can incorporate complex commands and scenes. These devices streamline your décor by replacing banks of switches and dimmers. For even greater convenience, choose keypads with instant access to scenes, letting you control lights throughout the house. Models are available in various finishes to fit any décor, including matte, metal, or glass.

Why Motorized Shading?

Enhance your daily routines with motorized shading solutions that improve climate control, lighting integration, and boost security and privacy. As a leading motorized shading company, we offer a wide range of fabrics and styles tailored to your décor. The added automation of motorized shades allows for seamless control of your home through timers and customized scenes.
  • Create perfect light every time by integrating motorized shades and window treatments with your existing smart home system and adjusting shading and lighting systems together.
  • Automate your home by creating zones for various lighting needs throughout your living spaces.
  • Enjoy enhanced control as your shades rise and lower in unison, quietly and right on schedule.
  • Straightforward control enables anyone in the home to experience the simplicity of automated window treatments.

Explore the Benefits of Motorized Shading

Save Energy
Program shades to block the sun during the hot summer months and let the sunshine in during the cold winter months.
Enhance Security
Timers raise and lower your shades automatically to keep up the appearance that you’re at home – even when you’re not.
Match Aesthetics
Don’t worry about having to compromise your aesthetics. Motorized shading is available in hundreds of materials and design motifs.
Maintain privacy
Raise and lower your shades with the press of a button, or program them to operate automatically at high-traffic times.
Protect furniture and art
Ultraviolet rays can damage valuable possessions like artwork, furniture, flooring and rugs. Prevent sun damage by programming your shades to lower during the brightest time of day.
Blue frame with fabric Lutron Palladiom roller shades
Roller Shades
Lutron Solar shades in a white loft
Solar Shades
blue honeycomb shades on a window overlooking the ocean
Cellular Shades
woven wooden roman shades by Lutron
Woven Roman Shades
Blackout shades by Lutron in a cool grey bedroom
Blackout Shades
Horizontal Sheer Blinds by Lutron in an olive green bedroom
Horizontal Sheer Blinds
Roman Shades by Hunter Douglas in a home office
Roman Shades

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    From design to installation, our experts deliver elegant lighting and shading solutions with white-glove service and unparalleled quality. We proudly serve clients in Southern California, South Florida, and Greater Philadelphia, as well as New Jersey, Maryland, Chicago, and Newport Beach, CA.

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