The Lighting and Shading Issue

The lighting and shading in your home can have a profound emotional impact. Light can trigger our deepest memories of brilliant dawns and warm bonfires. Shading can open to reveal a beautiful landscape or close to provide the darkness we need for a perfect night’s sleep. Lighting can bring drama to a space or spotlight a treasured painting.

The right lighting and shading solutions can take the best spaces in our home and make them better.

The technology that drives those solutions has advanced rapidly over the last several years. Today’s tunable fixtures can mimic natural light, bringing the cycles of the sun indoors. Motorized shading can be programmed to work in tandem with those luminaires, all while offering privacy and even assisting your home’s climate system.

Given all those choices, approaching a lighting and shading project in the home might seem a bit overwhelming. That’s why we’ve dedicated this issue of Smarter Spaces to helping you sort it all out: It’s a guidebook for homeowners and the technology integrators, architects, and interior designers they’ve partnered with. We’ll walk you through the basics and show you some specific, best-in-class solutions that Crestron offers. And we’ll also illustrate just how those solutions are put into play with real-world examples from award-winning projects.