Create the Perfect Amount of Daylight and Electric Light with Smart Lighting Control

Lighting plays a significant role in a home’s design. In fact, some designers consider it the most important feature. Sunlight streaming through windows, under-cabinet lighting that leaves a soft glow, and architectural lighting illuminating a home’s best features in washes of light can almost leave you breathless.

Yet, how often do we experience our home's lighting at its best? Our days get busy, our nights busier, and before we know it, a day's gone by, and while our lights helped us perform the tasks at hand, they fell far short of leaving us with a sense of wonder. 

Today’s home automation system changes that. Now, your daylight and electric light are controlled with one touch or automated to respond to life's daily activities. Filtered sunlight finds its way through translucent fabrics, lights take on the soft glow of a setting sun, and lights the color of golden candlelight set the stage for dinner.

Let’s explore how the latest lighting control makes managing our home’s lights effortless, enjoyable, and breathtaking.

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Managing Daylight

Daylight is considered a critical component in a home’s lighting. As part of the ambient lighting, it provides beauty, warmth, and reduces the need for electric lights. It can even improve sleep, enhance moods, and increase your body’s production of vitamin D. Pretty important stuff.

As with our lighting, however, we tend to miss the advantages that sunlight brings, closing our window coverings when direct light casts a glare on our computer screen or starts fading our hardwood floors. Motorized shades can make managing daylight effortless by automatically raising and lowering depending on the amount of direct sunlight. In response, your lighting dims and brightens, creating the perfect environment from moment to moment. 

The Right Lighting for Any Activity

Light switches are replaced by elegant in-wall custom-engraved keypads. These buttons display personalized activities, such as good morning, dining, movies, entertaining, and good night. Press a button, and all your lights settle into the perfect hue and temperature while the shades adjust to the right level for the activity. 

When it’s time for bed, tap the "Good Night" button, and your shades lower while all your lights turn off except for a soft trail of lights leading to the bedrooms. With today's technology, the possibilities in a smart home are limitless. 

You can also control one light or every light in your home from touchscreens and remotes. Are you staying late at work? Pull up the smartphone app and tap the “Coming Home” icon to ensure your lights greet you upon arrival. 

At DeVance Electronic Lifestyle, we design and install customized lighting control and home automation. Just as no two families are alike, no two smart homes should be either. To learn more about the many options in lighting control or to schedule a complimentary consultation, contact DeVance Electronic Lifestyle today.