Illuminate Your Home Beautifully with Lighting Control

Photography is the art of capturing a view. It is both a science and an art - anyone can take a picture, but great photographers know how to capture a compelling image. From the technological point of view, it’s always been about capturing light effectively. Different lenses and apertures let a camera frame the image and control the light coming in for the right effect. Where in years past chemical processes captured the image, today, digital technology can both capture the image and apply many different effects.

Any image can be improved with the optimal lighting. If you think of your home as a series of images, it too can look its best with the art and science of today’s home lighting and control solutions. If you want to see your Atlanta home in its best light, keep reading below!

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Spotlight Special Places

Do you collect art from your cross-country and world travels? Highlight the unique pieces in an art niche with a recessed light or track light. If you have a distinctive fireplace or wall finish, the right lighting can make that something to notice.

With modern LED lighting fixtures, the possibilities are endless. LED lighting can be dimmed to 1% of its output, creating precise control to set expertly layered lighting scenes. With a control system from Control4 or Lutron, you can easily manage all the lighting in your home to create the right ambiance. At dinnertime, you can create a scene with coordinated lights in your kitchen and dining area. At bedtime, your art niches can be softly lit to double as night lights for a path to the kitchen for a midnight snack.

Did you know that modern LED lights can change color temperature? With older fixtures and bulbs, this could only be a fixed temperature -  cooler, warmer, or in-between. Your LED lighting can vary color temperature throughout the day to more closely follow daylight and natural light. Use cooler tones during the day for alertness, and warmer tones in the evening for relaxation. With the right fixtures, you can even change colors and have some fun with entertaining.

Custom Control

Lighting control systems give you many options from control. Wireless wall keypads from Lutron systems can be mounted where you want them, and the buttons can be programmed for specific scenes or to control multiple banks of lights for brightening or dimming. If you prefer, an app on your smartphone can provide control, inside and outside your home. Both Control4 home automation systems and Lutron lighting control solutions feature integration with popular voice control assistants like Amazon Alexa, so you can also use a voice command when your hands are occupied. “Cooking” can brighten all the correct kitchen lights for cooking, and “Movie Night” can dim the lights in your living areas just the way you want them for the evening entertainment.

Outdoor Scenes

Add panache to your outside spaces with landscape lighting. Our landscape lighting brand partner Holm has an array of solutions for highlighting your landscape, gardens, and home exteriors. Use pendants to illuminate seating areas and walkways with light that mimics moonlight. Directional luminaries can highlight your special tree in the front yard, adding visual height. Use recessed luminaires to trace your stone walkway in the back.

Outdoor lighting not only adds beauty, but it makes your outside spaces better lit for safety and adds a measure of security as well. The best part? It can all be managed by your smart home or lighting control system.

 

Are you ready to see your home in the best light? Visit our Atlanta showroom, call us today at (404) 236-0007 or reach out on our online contact page. We look forward to showing you more.