Tips on How to Seamlessly Integrate Home Automation & Design
Ensuring Technology Enhances Rather Than Detracts from Your Home’s Aesthetics
Luxury homeowners have long appreciated the functionality and seamless experiences home automation brings to their daily lives. The challenge has been integrating smart home systems without affecting a home’s aesthetics or design. Today’s technology has answered that demand, going so far as to enhance a home’s interior.
At Relative Home Systems, we partner with Crestron, one of the oldest and largest home automation companies. Crestron Home, their smart home system, touches nearly every part of luxury homes, from shades to lighting, climate, entertainment, security, and more. How do you incorporate this level of automation without technology overload and unsightly AV equipment?
Here, we’ll explore how to create the ultimate smart home while elevating your home’s design in River Oaks, TX.
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System Design
The design aspect begins at the earliest stages of a build, during which our team collaborates with architects and designers to create a smart home that exceeds the client’s expectations. We may hide tech, blend it into the environment, or make it more visually pleasing. The key is procuring the balance between technology and design.
It’s essential for any wiring to be tucked away and hidden from view, along with the bulky equipment it controls. This requires hiding wires and cabling within walls and centralized control racks that consolidate audio and video devices, placing them neatly in a designated closet.
Flat panel 4K TVs may hide behind works of art or in ceilings or floors. The grilles of in-ceiling speakers are painted to blend perfectly into their surroundings.
The Interfaces
The interfaces, such as keypads and touchscreens, are the devices that control your smart home. Crestron manufactures every aspect of smart homes, including the control devices. Because of this, they understand the importance of creating interfaces that are as beautiful as they are simple to use.
These interfaces complement every type of home, from the modern contemporary to Chateau mansions. Metal and glass are a few of the keypad finishes, and customization is an inherent part of their offerings.
Utilizing one remote to manage your entire home can free up space, streamline the design, and remove clutter. While functionality is at the forefront, the design principle explores what’s being controlled and the best and most elegant way of doing it.
Lighting by Design
Advanced LED lighting systems play a major role in today’s smart homes. Aligning with moods and activities, lighting is integral to home design. Crestron’s fully tunable LED light fixtures provide a modular design that complements any décor with round or square trims and adjustable, fixed, wall-washing, or pinhole fixtures.
Through the smartphone app or touchscreen, you can control the nearly limitless colors, hues, and intensities and then save the settings as a scene to call up later. Circadian Rhythm lighting control synchronizes your lighting with the natural sunlight outside, balancing your internal time clock and improving your energy, sleep cycle, and mood.
At Relative Home Systems, our integration experts enhance our clients’ lifestyles with simple-to-use technology that elevates their homes’ aesthetics. To learn more about home automation or to schedule a complimentary consultation, contact Relative Home Systems today.
