Window Treatment & Lighting Design Blog

Find the perfect lighting for those magical nights 

The tree is up, and the roofline lights are dazzling. But when the guests walk in for Christmas Eve, what are the lights inside doing? In many homes, the answer is one bright overhead wash that flattens the room, the table, and everyone sitting at it. 

Your holiday festivities deserve better. Curate lighting that makes lights a part of your family festivities. Your holiday lineup starts with a golden glow at Christmas Eve dinner, moves to a party that follows your guests from room to room, and ends with a countdown to midnight on New Years Eve. Ketra lighting, paired with a Lutron control system, saves each one as a scene you can bring back with a single touch.

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.