Interior Designers: 3 Ways to Use Lighting Control in Your Projects
Differentiate Your Designs with Innovative Lighting Solutions
As an interior designer, you understand the impact that lighting has within a home. Beyond its obvious role of helping homeowners see and perform tasks, lighting plays an important part in creating a comfortable environment that also accentuates the interior design.
You likely experiment with lighting layers, dimmers, and unique fixtures to create the perfect mood for your spaces. While you can accomplish your vision with traditional lighting control, a smart lighting control system can differentiate your designs by eliminating wall clutter, allowing for the creation of one-tap light scenes, and optimizing natural light by way of daylight harvesting.
Keep reading to discover three ways that a lighting control system can elevate your projects in Henrico County, VA and surrounding areas.
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Eliminate Wall Clutter with Keypads
Long banks of switches and dimmers in every room aren’t only unintuitive to use, but they can detract from your designs by creating unwanted wall clutter. With proper planning for wiring your lights, you can eliminate these amorphous banks of switches and use far fewer wall controls in the form of sleek, custom-engraved keypads that control multiple lighting loads throughout the home.
Place these multifunctional wall keypads in optimal locations, like hallways or common rooms, and reduce the number of wall controls in one room to a single keypad. Keypads come in several elegant finishes and can be custom-configured for your clients’ needs.
Program One-Tap Scenes for Quick Mood Setting
A smart lighting control system allows you to program personalized light scenes that manipulate several fixtures in one or several rooms with a button tap. You can wow your clients by creating scenes like “Entertain” that instantly dim downstairs overhead lights to 20%, brighten lamps and pendants to 80%, and illuminate accent lights that highlight artwork and other beautiful home features.
Create one-tap light scenes for any mood or task in one or several rooms. Our team employs Control4 for our smart lighting systems in part because it puts personalized control in the hands of the end-user. While you can create scenes that highlight your projects and help set the mood, your clients can adjust these scenes later or create new ones as they see fit using the Control4 OS 3 app.
Use Sensors to Harness Natural Light
The best light is natural light. Natural light energizes your interiors, makes spaces feel bigger, and enhances color vibrancy. While you don’t need a lighting control system to enjoy natural light, you can take advantage of daylight harvesting by integrating light sensors with your lighting control system.
Daylight harvesting is an automatic lighting control strategy in which interior electronic lights adjust their brightness based on the amount of natural light in a space to maintain a target level of lighting. When ample natural light floods your interiors, artificial lights will remain off or dim. As natural light fades, artificial lights in the space will gradually brighten. This technology allows you to take advantage of natural light to elevate your interiors while also ensuring the proper amount of illumination at any given time. Plus, your clients will enjoy the hands-free operation, and they’ll save energy, too.
Take advantage of smart lighting control to differentiate your designs and offer intuitive lighting control for your clients. Partnering with a smart home automation professional like Sound + Image is the first step! Learn more about working with us on your next project by contacting us here or using the live chat box below to speak to a team member today.
