Tips From The Top

The right lighting is vital to good living.

It’s something we — and our home automation clients — have known for a long time.

In fact, it’s just as important to your overall home as the right sound system climate control. And we’re not just talking about the sources of artificial light. A key ingredient in achieving the optimal lighting results in your home is shading.

The right shading system can give you the tools to best manage that light to create the setting and results that create your ideal home. An automated shading system can lead to better comfort, sure — but also better health and overall energy use. This can mean using pre-set scenes that automatically raise the shades to let in the morning light, supporting your body’s natural circadian rhythms. Or shades that automatically lower when the sun goes down, creating security and privacy. It can even take your home theater to the next level by perfectly blocking out all outside light for that ultra-dark, cinema-like feel. 

And more — a home shading system can leveraging outdoor lighting to best manage home energy costs. When integrated with the overall home climate system, shading can be set to lower on warm days and keep the light out (and cooling costs lower), and raise on winter days to invite the sunlight in and reduce heating costs. With an automated, integrated shading system, this kind of energy management can happen whether the homeowner is standing in the living room or halfway across the world.

And now that the rest of the country is catching on to just how important a home shading system is for your overall home environment, designers and companies are coming up with even more options and to best fit you and your home’s specific, unique needs and aesthetic.  

We’re a long way from that old “spring ‘em up” pull down shade.

According to Lutron, one of our favorite smart home shading innovators, the foundation of all interior light is natural light. Which is why the global innovator excels at precision-controlled window shading systems. “An automated shade is like a dimmer for the sun,” said Lutron’s Experience Center Leader Todd Goldblatt. “We can use automation to better utilize daylight in our interiors, which is the most dynamic, powerful source of light we can have in a space.” Among their many options, Lutron offers rolling shades, Roman shades, wood blinds, cellular (honeycomb) shades, and more.

We work closely with clients to discern their needs and their tastes to find the best shading systems for their unique home aesthetic — to utilize and harness the power of natural lighting, manage energy costs, and create the home of their dreams.

To learn more about smart automated shading systems in your home, call us at Jackson Hole AV. We’d love to discuss the possibilities.

 

**Image courtesy of Lutron.