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Why You Should Incorporate Lighting Design in Your Home Build or Renovation

Exterior of geometric modern home with an impressive lighting design and pool. A small mountain is in the background.

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! 

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Smart Lighting Control: A Switchless Lighting Solution

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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.

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How Smart Lighting Design Adds Ambiance to Your Home

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Change the Look and Feel of These 3 Rooms with a New Lighting Layout

Put a lamp here and a light there, and you’ll achieve the perfect ambiance in your home, right? Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. New lights don’t necessarily mean a new look in your rooms. For lighting design to be effective and impressive, proper light placement and high-quality products are essential.

So, how do you set the perfect lighting mood in every room? It’s easier than you think when depending on Hermary’s to design and install a lighting system. Keep reading to see what customized lighting design and high-end fixtures can do for your home in the Bay Area.

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Josh.ai & Lutron Team Up for Home Lighting Control

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Want an Easier Way to Control the Lighting in Your Home? Here’s How! 

Smart home automation has transformed how people interact with the technologies in their homes. Even though dimmers and remotes were considered “smart technologies” years ago, they’ve long since been replaced by sleek wall panels, smart home tablets, and smartphone apps that allow seamless and sophisticated control options. 

In the last several years, a new innovation has emerged: voice control! Now, you don’t have to touch anything to take command of your home’s integrated systems. For example, Josh.ai (a state-of-the-art smart home voice assistant) has joined forces with Lutron (an innovator in home lighting control) to offer a better way to adjust natural and artificial lights in your Bay Area home. Keep reading to find out more. 

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