We design and install home automation that makes a house easier to live in, from a single room of lighting control to a whole property with shades, audio, climate, cameras and voice working as one system.
We work with everyone, small or big. The scope changes with the project. The standard of the work does not.
The best automation disappears. Lights come up to the right level when you walk in, shades track the sun without being asked, the house settles itself at night, and nobody in the family needs an app to do any of it. That outcome comes from design, and design starts with a conversation about your routines rather than a catalogue.
We ask what frustrates you about the house now, which rooms you actually use, who lives there and who visits, and what you want the place to do when you are away. The specification follows from the answers. A couple in a new build with a wall of west facing glass needs something different from a family with three teenagers, a dog and a home office.
We work with Control4, Lutron, Josh.ai and Nice, and we choose between them on the merits of the house. Lutron is the reference for lighting and shades and we use it in nearly every project. Control4 ties lighting, audio, video, climate, security and entry into one interface and is our default for a whole home system. Josh.ai adds natural voice control that is private by design and genuinely pleasant to use. Nice covers properties where a hybrid of wired and wireless makes sense.
Whatever goes in, the network underneath it has to be right. More smart home complaints trace back to a weak network than to any device, so we design the wiring and the wireless as part of the system rather than leaving it to whoever supplied the router. Every system we install keeps its intelligence in the house, so lighting, shades, audio and climate all keep working if the internet goes down.
If you are building or doing a major renovation, call us before the electrician roughs in. There is a window after framing and before drywall when cable costs almost nothing to run, and nearly every regret we hear from homeowners traces back to that window closing. A prewire does not commit you to a budget. It gives you the option, in year one or year five.
In a finished home, retrofit lighting and shade systems have become excellent. Modern keypads and dimmers put the intelligence in the device rather than in a wire back to a panel, so a house can get proper scene lighting without opening walls. Battery and wireless shades are now good enough that the compromise is small. Where cable is needed, we plan the route before we cut and we are frank about which rooms are worth the cost.
Programming and handover matter more than the hardware. We sit with the household until the system makes sense to everyone who lives there, and we stay reachable afterwards, because a scene that was right in June is often wrong in December. Systems need tuning once people have lived with them for a season, and that is part of the job rather than an extra.
You get documentation of what was installed, how the network is laid out and how to reach us. If your builder or architect is involved we coordinate with them directly, and we would rather be a half day on site during framing than a hard conversation at punch list.
It ranges from a few thousand dollars for lighting control in a couple of rooms to a significant line in a custom build for a fully integrated property. The honest drivers are the number of lighting loads and windows, whether the house is open or finished, and how many subsystems you want on one interface. We quote in writing with equipment and labor shown separately so you can see exactly where the money goes and phase it if you prefer.
Yes, and we often recommend it. The systems we install are built to extend. One floor of lighting, or shades in the rooms that get the sun, is a sensible first project, and we design that phase so the next one is straightforward rather than a rebuild.
They do different jobs and the best projects usually combine them. Lutron for lighting and shades, Control4 as the central system, Josh.ai for voice. We will tell you plainly which of them a given house needs and which it does not.
A properly designed system keeps running. Lighting, shades, audio and climate operate locally with no connection at all. What you lose during an outage is remote access from outside the house and anything that depends on a cloud service, which is one reason we favor systems that keep their intelligence local.