DESIGN IDEAS

The Dance Between Natural & Electric Light

Natural light has a profound impact on homes. It brings out a room’s textures, colors, and finer details, creating a sense of spaciousness. This same light affects the human body, improving moods, reducing stress, balancing sleep-wake cycles, and increasing energy. 

The challenge lies in managing its intensity and aligning it with a home’s interior illumination. The solution is a lighting control system, an automated approach to creating the ideal lighting for your Scottsdale, AZ, home.

Let’s explore this remarkable system.

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Creating the Ideal Environment

While natural light offers breathtaking beauty, artificial light can transform the mood, create drama, and highlight a home’s best features. With today’s advanced LED lighting systems, one touch transitions light fixtures to reflect the changing color of daylight or changes the look and feel of a space by bathing it in one of the limitless colors of full-spectrum light. 

But, how do you manage the dance between stunning interior lighting design and the natural light of the sun? Taking advantage of both systems would require an ongoing adjustment of window coverings and transitioning the lighting in your home from brilliant and bright to soft and subdued. 

And that’s where the dual effects of lighting design and control systems come in. This technology has truly revolutionized how we illuminate our homes. Today, it’s not only stunning in nature, but it’s also effortless to manage. 

Controlling Your Home’s Light

At Scottsdale Shade & Light, we partner with Lutron, the global leader in lighting control systems. It’s also the parent company of Ketra, a brand that delivered one of the most advanced LED lighting systems in the world. This system lets you manage one or every light and shade in your home by pressing a touchscreen or mobile app, or with a voice command. 

We program elegant, custom-engraved keypads to change your lighting based on the activity. Press ‘Cooking,’ and the undercabinet and recessed lights highlight just the right areas in the right hues. Tap ‘Relax,’ and the living room lights transform into the colors of a desert sunset while the shades lower to provide privacy. 

Letting Your Smart Home Control Your Light for You

With customized programming, your smart home can automatically create the perfect illumination for you. It opens the motorized window coverings at sunrise and brightens a soft trail of lighting to the bathroom and kitchen. During the day, the shades and lighting work in tandem, maintaining the ideal level of light in occupied rooms. 

When the shades lower to protect your home from direct UV rays, the lights brighten. When you leave for the day, every shade lowers and the lights turn off. At sunset, it turns on your security lights and, when you arrive home in the evening, it automatically turns on the entryway, landscape, and kitchen lights. 

It’s a life-changing system that’s hard to imagine until you experience it. 

Managing Your Home’s Light When You’re Away

For enhanced security, our automation and lighting design experts can program an ‘Away’ button that simulates presence. Automatically adjusting the shades and lighting creates the illusion that someone is home, making it one of the best proactive security measures. 

You can also manage your lighting remotely. Did you forget to lower the shades and turn off some lights when you rushed out the door? With one tap, it’s done. 

At Scottsdale Shade & Light, we’re excited to share this technology that’s transforming how we illuminate our homes. To learn more about lighting control systems or to schedule a complimentary consultation, contact Scottsdale Shade & Light today.