See Your New Mexico or Colorado Home in a New Shade of Light
When you look at homes in real estate listings, what makes a space attractive? Is it the floor or the wall color? That can play a part. But more than anything, lighting has the power to completely elevate a house’s appearance.
When applied correctly, natural and artificial light works wonders for a room. And Lutron lighting control lets you enhance your home’s interiors beyond on/off light switches. With a home automation system, you can customize the color and brightness of each fixture and control groups of lights to alter the overall mood.
If you’re new to smart lighting systems, we’ll share how you can use them to enhance your home’s atmosphere (and save time!). From Durango, CO, to Farmington, NM, we design and install custom lighting systems that breathe new life into homes.
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Customize Color, Brightness & More
A light’s color temperature can vastly impact the mood of a room. Lights that shine icy and cool white are appropriate during the day, but at night will make your rooms feel cold and uninviting. Warm-hued bulbs are cozy and comfortable for the evening but don’t provide enough visibility during the day.
Luckily, Lutron lighting control systems give you the best of both worlds with color-tunable lights. You can change the color temperature of many lights at once, even adjusting the whole house simultaneously. Ketra LED lights by Lutron offer 16 million colors and dimming levels all the way down to .1 percent. Through your Lutron app, wall keypad, remote, or even voice control, you can customize the appearance of your lights to accentuate your home’s interiors. Linear lighting and landscape lighting can also be intelligently controlled to craft the perfect mood.
Create & Control Layers of Light
What makes a house look luxurious? If you look closely, luxury homes use layers of light throughout each space—and don’t rely on single bulbs at the center of the ceiling. A combination of task, ambient, and accent lighting brings depth and intrigue to a room with a mix of linear lighting, pendants, and recessed lights. To change the atmosphere, a Lutron lighting system lets you add, remove, dim, or brighten layers in seconds.
For example, if you’d like a little “mood lighting” for a romantic dinner, tapping a “Dining” button on your Lutron wall keypad or app will dim the ambient light while keeping the accent and task lighting at low levels.
Save Lighting Scenes to Activate Anytime
You don’t have to slide your finger on the color wheel whenever you want to set the mood. The Lutron system lets you save scenes to activate anytime. A “Party” mode might adjust accent lights to fun colors, while a “Movie” mode dims all the lights besides small pathway lights for walking visibility.
A Lutron dealer like our team at Next Level can work with you to install a custom lighting system that elevates your interior design and enhances daily activities. We can even program buttons on sleek, stylish wall keypads to activate your lighting scenes, with buttons like “Morning,” “Night,” or whatever you like!
Ready to learn more about Lutron lighting control and home automation? Contact Next Level in Farmington, NM, and Durango, CO, to get started. We look forward to working with you!
Creating the ultimate home theater experience is about more than installing a big screen and surround sound system. There are many small and big elements that influence the overall experience, such as home theater furniture. Home theater furniture is specifically designed to enhance your home theater experience by optimizing comfort, fun, and style.
A sofa and coffee table are not enough for a comfortable and enjoyable home theater experience. There is a wide range of home theater furniture options including television stands, sofas, chairs, recliners, game tables, bar stools, and more. And, you can customize home theater furniture’s styles, colors, materials, finishes to ensure that the furniture seamlessly integrates with your home theater aesthetic and other decor.
It is important to understand that regular furniture in home decor stores is not designed specifically for home theater applications so it may lack the comfort and features that you want for a high-quality entertainment experience. Home theater furniture is specifically designed to blend comfort and functionality in an audio/video application for a truly immersive experience. Many home theater furniture pieces even have smart components that can be programmed and integrated into your home automation system. Imagine pressing a button, and your recliner automatically adjusts its angle, headrest, and footrest to your preferred sitting position as the lights dim and the movie begins to play. You will feel like you are in a luxury movie theater without ever having to leave the comfort of your home.
No matter what style of home decor you have, there’s home theater furniture to coordinate seamlessly. And, in addition to comfort furniture, there are other types of home theater furniture that serve practical purposes such as media racks, rugs, and acoustic panels. Investing in high-quality home theater furniture will enhance your overall viewing experience and transform your entertainment space into a haven for relaxation and enjoyment.
There are few things that add more value to your home and are more enjoyable than a home theater. When you want a true movie theater experience, right in your own home, a projector and screen is the only way to go. Many homeowners think the most important component of their home theater is the quality of projector that they choose. And, while your projector quality and features is certainly important, it is important that you do not forget about the quality of the screen. Yes, you heard us right, the screen.
Choosing a high-quality screen for your home theater projector can make all the difference in image quality. Screens come in a variety of sizes, made of various materials, installed in a variety of ways, and each small decision you make about your projector screen will impact your viewing experience. Just think about it, if your screen is wrinkly or wiggling around while you are trying to watch a movie, your mind will be distracted and your overall viewing experience will be diminished. CNET explains how little features that may seem innocuous, like screen gain, actually make a huge difference in your home theater projector screen quality, “All screens have a “gain,” or how much more they reflect light compared with a uniform reflecting surface (called a Lambertian surface). So a 2.0-gain screen reflects twice as much light than a 1.0-gain screen…sort of. Essentially what’s happening is the screen “focuses” the light. So instead of the projector’s image reflecting in all directions (a perfect Lambertian surface), more of it goes in one specific direction (ideally, toward your eyeballs). This doesn’t mean that a 2.0-gain screen will make a projector’s image twice as bright as the same projector on a 1.0-gain screen, but it will be brighter.”
Further, you will need to determine whether or not you want to use a white screen or a gray screen. This will depend on how much control you have over the light in the room. If there may be a little light, a gray screen may help improve the image quality and viewing experience. Only a high-quality screen can provide a high-quality viewing experience so it is worth the investment when designing a custom home theater.