Window Treatment & Lighting Design Blog

Your Lighting Control that shifts with the sun and sets the mood

The sun sets a little earlier every week this time of year, so a dinner planned for seven o'clock now starts in the dark. That's when most rooms show their weakness. You can pick the right wine and the right flowers, but one flat wash of overhead light still makes a beautiful table look dull. It’s a great way to kill the mood before dinner even starts. 

Lighting control lets you take command of the lighting all day. We pair Lutron HomeWorks with Ketra fixtures that follow the color and warmth of daylight, so your home stays comfortable from the last of the afternoon sun to the last glass of wine. Here's how that works.

Solar Shades Preserve Your Interiors and Your Views

Big windows are part of why you fell for your home in the first place, but in Los Angeles, they come with a quiet cost. Direct sun wears down everything inside a room every single day it is uninterrupted: hardwood floors pick up an uneven tan, upholstery loses its depth of color, and artwork fades in ways no cleaning can correct.

The sun’s solar gain also makes your HVAC system work harder to keep up. Your HVAC picks up the added work so you remain comfortable, but you’ll notice the impact soon enough on your energy bills. 

Solar shades solve both problems at once by filtering glare and UV without asking you to give up the view your windows were built for.

Tunable LED Fixtures Protect Your Design Vision

Every material choice in a room — a hand-loomed rug, a specific paint sheen, a piece of custom furniture — is tuned to look a certain way under a certain kind of light. What looked great in a high-end showroom will not look the same under your home’s standard fixtures. Ordinary lighting can quietly undercut a palette you spent months getting right.

Ketra lighting, integrated with a Lutron system, treats light itself as part of the material palette in your interior decor. It's precise enough to match your intended color temperature and intensity from morning through evening, so the room reads the way you designed it. Don’t let your home go to waste with flat lighting. 

Custom Awnings Bring Comfort and Style to Everyday Outdoor Living

The best room in a well-designed home is often the one without four walls. Not ones that make you feel stifled and claustrophobic, but ones that give you a fresh perspective and help you decompress. 

A covered terrace for your morning coffee. A shaded dining area for evening guests. A poolside retreat that feels like it belongs at a five-star resort.

Southern California's sun is one of your home's greatest assets, but without the right shading solution, that same sun pushes you indoors during the hottest stretch of the afternoon and ruins these great spots. 

A well-designed awning gives you your patio back, turning an underused space into one of your favorite spots in the entire house.