Discover Human-Centric Lighting and Incredible Dimming Possibilities 

What’s the best smart lighting brand? While there are many high-quality options on the market, there’s one name that stands above them all. And that’s Ketra. 

Ketra is an intelligent lighting manufacturer that was acquired by Lutron (the lighting control brand) in 2018. While Lutron does manufacture its own excellent fixtures, Ketra is regarded as its most sophisticated lighting line for whole-home control. 

With 16 million colors available to its smart bulbs, Ketra lighting offers the ultimate customization, automation, and dimming capabilities—all the way down to 0.1 percent! Read on to learn how Ketra works, its benefits, and how to bring it to your Bay Area home. 

Experience Outdoor Shades That Lower in a Press of a Button 

When most homeowners create an outdoor living space, they bring out weatherproof furniture, a grill, and hang some string lights. But for extra comfort, have you considered installing outdoor screens? 

It happens all too frequently. We’re enjoying our time relaxing outdoors when it starts to feel too buggy. Or we might take our laptop outside to work, only to decide the sun is too bright. But when you own outdoor motorized shades, you can block harsh sunlight, pesky insects, and pollen with a press of a button. 

Learn how motorized shades can enhance your Bay Area outdoor areas and why they make an excellent addition to any smart home system! 

Another Reason to Get Excited about Lutron Smart Lighting 

Lutron is a lighting control system that lets you intelligently automate your home’s LED lights and shades. But it’s not just a controller. Lutron also offers a breadth of light fixtures, shades, and wall keypads that enhance the home lighting experience. 

We’ve written about Lutron’s lighting and shading solutions—but let’s look at their eye-catching and design-oriented keypads. In our humble opinion, replacing your regular on/off light switches with sleek, customizable buttons is one of the most exciting benefits of a Lutron system! 

Here’s what we love about Lutron’s wall keypads and what they can offer your Bay Area home. 

Illuminate your home after dark with a breathtaking landscape lighting design

Are you coming home to a well-illuminated home after dark? Proper lighting will bring you peace of mind that you are safe when you go from your car to the door at night and add an unmatched layer of beauty to your property. Plus, an integrator makes it easy to control your lights through intuitive smart controls and home automation. You can adjust your lights from your smart device of choice or even schedule them to turn on and off automatically.

The benefits don’t just end there! Read on to learn more about the benefits an outdoor lighting installation will bring to your home in the Bay Area.

Check out the features that set Control4 apart from a traditional audio system

How often do you listen to music in your home? Most homeowners like to put on their favorite tunes as they do housework or relax after a long day. What if you could enjoy your music, play your record collection, stream your TV audio, and listen to the latest audiobook or podcast no matter where you are in your home? Whole-home audio makes this possible! Speakers will be installed in every room of your home to provide even coverage, and with just a tap, you can listen to the same song throughout your property or different audio in every room of your house.

Some audio systems, however, are smarter than others. Discover three reasons that it is better to have a smart multi-room audio system from Control4 in Hillsborough, CA.

Use Smart Shades for More Than “Good Morning” and “Good Night”

Color-changing LEDs get a lot of attention in the lighting control world, but you’d be remiss to overlook the incredible power of motorized shades. You can program motorized shades to raise and lower independently on schedule or across the house with a single command. 

Even if you only use motorized shades in the morning and night, you’d be saving valuable time. But beyond starting and ending your day, there are other times automated window shades are an invaluable help around the house.

Here’s how motorized shades can benefit your Bay Area home each day!

GIVE YOUR FAMILY PEACE OF MIND WITH COMPLETE ALARM AND VIDEO COVERAGE

You have worked hard for your home, and it should be a place of safety and solace. By adding a live monitored home security system, you gain peace of mind and assurance.

There are many options for cameras and alarms, and it is tempting to favor an off-the-shelf product. While many DIY security systems have intriguing and catchy features, they are seriously lacking where it is most crucial. As with many things, you get what you pay for; over-the-counter systems cannot guarantee reliability, interoperability, or quick response times.

Are you looking to upgrade your security with an integrated professional system? Read more below to learn how to gain complete safety at your home in the Bay Area.

What Does A Lighting Designer Do? More Than You Might Expect.  

If you’re looking to build your dream home, you’ll certainly be working with a range of contractors. From the architect to the electrician, it takes a team of qualified professionals to build incredible spaces like in the photo above.

Yet many people don’t realize what often makes interiors so eye-catching is the light. The way you illuminate a room can make or break an ambiance and influence how colors in interior design look at different times of the day. While electricians and interior designers have a hand in lighting, it takes a professional lighting design to achieve the best results.

A lighting designer can transform the experience of living in your Bay Area home. Read on to discover what a lighting design entails! 

Enjoy the Sights and Sounds of Multi-room AV and an Immersive Home Theater

Are you still listening to music through earbuds, watching movies on a bedroom TV, or going to the local cinema to see the latest big release? Upgrade the AV in your home and transform your home entertainment experience. A professional audio-video installation gives you much more than a standard setup.

With this installation, you can turn your San Francisco, CA, home into a truly smart and entertaining space. For example, transform your living room into an authentic home theater with surround sound that delivers full immersion in your favorite movie as well as a high-quality video that will allow you to see every frame in detail. Continue reading to learn more about all the options an audio-video installation can provide.

Comparing Lutron’s Control Systems to Find the Best Solution for Your Home

If you’re reading this, there’s a strong chance that you’re interested in smart lighting control. Congrats! You’ve come to the right place. We’re a Bay Area Lutron dealer that designs and installs custom lighting systems that adapt to your daily routines and activities.

Lutron is a world leader in smart lighting, but not all of its solutions are the same. Lutron offers three control system options: Caséta, RadioRA 3, and HomeWorks.

As a Lutron dealer, we can typically tell which control system to install based on a homeowner’s needs and preferences. But if you’re curious, here’s what each system does differently and how they may (or may not) be suited to your San Francisco home.

All the magic of conventional movie theaters inside your Bay Area home.

Having fun at home is now much easier with dedicated entertainment areas. With families spending more time together as the summer months approach, it’s crucial to have a good recreational option for the whole family. We love to design and install rooms specially conceived as fully immersive home theaters. Want to improve how you entertain in your Bay Area residence? Read on to learn about the five major advantages of home theater design.

Battery-Powered Shades Convey Luxury Design To All Your Rooms

Motorized shades bring functional benefits to your Bay Area residence beyond their great aesthetics. These shades will help you reduce energy costs by lightening the load your HVAC system carries throughout the day to keep your rooms warmer or colder; plus, these shades will help protect your furniture, hardwood floors, and art piece in your home from harmful UV rays. 

All from a one-touch control that could be via a tablet, remote or an app on your phone. It used to be necessary to drill holes in the walls of your home to incorporate wiring and achieve full control of the shades; however, now it is much easier and less invasive with battery-powered motorized shades. Continue reading to learn more about our motorized shade solutions.

Add the Soundtrack to All Your Pool Fun

With spring here in Northern California, your outdoor spaces become a prime area for entertainment of family and friends. Having a powerful audio system for your San Francisco home is the key to achieve the quality entertainment you've been looking for in your backyard activities.

You can take all your parties and outdoor activities to the next level with your favorite music through a high-performance poolside audio system. Want to know how? Keep reading to learn more about poolside audio.

Take your favorite music, podcasts, and sports outside

When we talk about outdoor audio for your San Francisco Bay Area home, we’re talking about high-fidelity speakers that provide impact and clarity for every musical note, dialogue, or whatever you are listening to. With high-performance outdoor sound, you can turn all your outdoor activities at home into more pleasurable experiences. Here are a few ideas to consider for your new outdoor audio setup.

Make Your Home Look as Stunning in the Evening as It Does During the Day

Have you ever considered your home to be an oasis? Because, in a way, it is! It’s your private paradise where you can escape from the world for a while. Whether you’re retreating from the busyness of work or the hustle and bustle of everyday activities, your home is a place to unwind, relax, and refresh. Even though it may look the part in the day, at night, it seems like a dark castle.

Add light and life to your property! With outdoor lighting, you effectively extend your enjoyment outside and into the evening. Landscape lighting creates a beautiful scene on your lawn, patio, or pool deck. Discover how to achieve this effect at your Bay Area home by reading our blog below. 

Quick fixes won’t work if you have a low-performing home network system. Here’s the answer!

Wi-Fi extenders, a mesh network, and a new router. You’ve tried everything to fix your slow home networking system and weak Wi-Fi, but nothing seems to do the trick. You may have even upgraded to the best plan from your ISP (internet service provider). And still, you experience problems with buffering movies, frozen video during FaceTiming or conference calls, or lags when trying to control smart home systems.

What’s causing the problem? Why aren’t your Wi-Fi and internet cooperating? You’ve tried DYI strategies and over-the-counter products that don’t really work. Now, it’s time for real solutions. Keep reading to see how to enjoy the best connection in your Bay Area home.

How a Whole-Home Audio System Adds More Enjoyment to Your Life

Whether you’re dining out, shopping at a retail store, or spending time at an entertainment venue, you’ve likely enjoyed the immersive features of music. Bay Area business owners know that music elevates the experience for their customers. Music does wonders to create a mood and stir emotions like no other media. That’s why they dedicate a portion of their budgets to installing premium speakers throughout their buildings and properties. 

So, the question is, “Why don’t you have a multi-room audio system in your home?” With the tap of a button, you can surround yourself in your favorite songs wherever you roam – creating the perfect mood in any space. Keep reading to see how a whole-home sound system brings more music to your life. 

Achieve a Stable and Strong Connection with Advanced Smart Home Wi-Fi

Few things are more frustrating in our Wi-Fi world than dealing with buffering videos, poor connections with smart devices, and sluggish responses when you’re browsing the internet or social media. It’s even worse when you need reliable Wi-Fi for home security and other smart home systems. What’s the solution? Some would suggest installing a mesh network. But that can get very messy!

Mesh isn’t always the answer. In fact, it can sometimes cause more problems. Instead, if you want to have strong Wi-Fi signals throughout your property in the Bay Area, smart home Wi-Fi is the solution. Keep reading to see how to fix your Wi-Fi problems. 

Here Are 4 Options for Controlling Your Home’s Lighting without Flipping a Switch

People have done it for so long that they don’t even think twice about it: walking into a dark room and flipping the light switch. Immediate light floods the space, illuminating everything and even adding ambiance to the room. And yet, in a world of smart technology (i.e., smart cars, AI-powered computers and devices, and smart home products), you’d think there’d be a better way to control something as common as a light switch.

Smart lighting control is the answer! Instead of using a typical light switch or dimmer, you’ll enjoy a seamless and stylish way to illuminate your Bay Area, California home. Still, there’s more than one way to do it! Keep reading to learn how smart lighting control comes in many forms.

Home Theater Design and Online Streaming Create a New Experience

Long before online streaming, people had to wait for a much-anticipated release of a movie in the theaters. Expectation and excitement turned to a thrilling experience once the lights went down and the film began to roll. Then came movie streaming platforms. Right in your own home, you could watch feature films . . . but not until after they were released to video, which could mean months!

But things have changed. Many streaming platforms offer same-day viewing of new releases right in the comfort of your own home! That, coupled with an immersive home theater design, transforms the entire entertainment experience in your Bay Area home. Keep reading to learn more.