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Change Your Lighting for Every Occasion with One Touch

There was a time when home lighting remained at one consistent hue, soft or bright white light. While the ability to dim lights has been around for many years, the colour of the lighting has always remained fairly constant. LED lighting fixtures changed that.

Now, we can experience lights in every colour on the visible light spectrum from a single source. That's about 17 million shades, from artic blue and indigo to soft amber and ruby red, as well as every colour in between. 

So, what does that mean for homeowners in Edmonton? They can now change the lighting to suit any and every occasion with one touch on an elegant keypad or remote. Let’s explore the possibilities in the blog below.

Lutron Shades Provide Convenience, Beauty, and Opportunities to Save Energy

Motorized shades are one of the most popular smart home technologies on the market. Why? Well, not only are motorized shades beautiful, but they also provide homeowners with more control over their homes, increase security, protect their belongings, and so much more. Motorized window treatments from companies like Lutron can truly improve your home in Sherwood Park, AB, and your daily routine. Check out these five reasons you should install motorized blinds in your home.

From CRT to Lamps to Laser

Video projectors have come a long way. They used to be large, heavy and not very bright, utilizing red, green and blue cathode ray tubes that needed to be aligned just right to achieve the best image. With chip production being more commonplace, manufacturers engineered a new solution. A chip based image processor (ie. LCD, DLP or LCOS chip) and utilized a lamp as the light source. This enabled the projectors to get smaller, brighter and less expensive. But the cost of lamps,  the visible loss of brightness as they age and shorter life span have been a major setback for lamps. LEDs have been used as an alternative, but they haven't been able to achieve the brightness level needed for video projection like we are seeing with laser. The other advantages of laser have been faster startup times, better contrast and black levels, and lifespans equivalent to LED (20,000 hours+). As more and more laser based projectors have started becoming available the price has been coming down even as the quality goes up. JVC was one of the first manufacturers to make available true 4k laser projectors (we now have the JVC DLA-RS2100 on display) and we are eagerly anticipating more models from other manufacturers such as the highly anticipated Epson LS-12000. Stay tuned!!

Elevate Your Lifestyle With Easy-to-Use Home Lighting

The lighting in a home determines how people are going to feel and experience the space. Good lighting makes a space feel warm and welcoming, while poor lighting makes a room feel uncomfortable and can negatively impact mood. Lighting is essential, and adding smart lighting automation to your home in the St. Albert region can transform your daily lifestyle.

Automated and smart control lighting is extremely easy to use and can truly elevate your daily routines. By improving lighting, you’ll likely experience a boost in your mood, productivity, and restfulness. Here’s how lighting automation works to make life more enjoyable and convenient.

Trust the All-In-One Approach of a Smart Home System 

Some people think smart technology’s more trouble than it’s worth. And in some cases, we can see their point. After all, if you need to pull out your phone to adjust the lights, then find a separate remote for the motorized shades, is that really ‘smarter’ than the old way of doing things? 

But to smart home skeptics, we’d tell them that they haven’t seen a true smart home yet. Disorder and confusion are only issues in DIY smart homes. On the contrary, a professionally-installed smart home system consolidates all your technologies into the same sophisticated interface. 

No more juggling and switching between platforms. You can manage your whole Edmonton house with the same app, remote, or control panel. Here’s how smart home automation will simplify your daily routines and ease the stresses of modern life. 

Top Considerations in a Home Theater Installation

As the technology surrounding home theaters continues to advance, so does the demand. After all, these entertainment spaces offer movie viewing that rivals the best cinemas in town, with surround sound and brilliant lifelike images that take your breath away. Or, at least, it can. 

Achieving the immersive cinematic experience requires that all components are correctly chosen, calibrated, and installed with precision. If you don’t have the expertise and knowledge of a professional home theater installer, going DIY is difficult at best and disastrous at worst. 

Let’s explore the details of home theater design and how the entertainment space in your Sherwood Park home benefits from a professional installer.

It’s natural to want your home to look nice. Organized and well-designed homes are more than just aesthetically pleasing, they can also elevate your lifestyle. Lighting is one of the most crucial parts of home design. It can affect how your home looks and how you experience it. That’s why so many people choose to incorporate smart lighting design into their homes. 

Ketra by Lutron is one of the best smart lighting solutions available. It’s easy to use, aesthetically pleasing and can transform how you experience your home. Keep reading to learn more about Ketra and how it can elevate your Edmonton home.

Why should I care about light?

Light! It’s an incredibly important part of our world, and experts are quickly realizing that how we light our homes and workplaces can have a dramatic impact on our lives.

When building or renovating homes, there is a lot of time spent on picking paint, flooring, counter tops, art, furniture and more. Yet most of us spend little time thinking about how we light it. When you get a color or fabric sample, what is the first thing you do? Go over to the window and see what it looks like in the sun! Why? Because this is the best source of light there is. 

A Flagship Loudspeaker Refined

With the recent changes to the 800 series Bowers and Wilkins has further refined their performance with the new D4 series. From the ultimate Matrix™, reinforcing the cabinet in new ways, to the new Biomimetic Suspension system instead of the traditional spider on the midrange driver, Bowers and Wilkins has brought the performance of the entire 800 D4 series to a whole new level. The new 801D4s combine them all together to make this a truly worthy flagship. We invite you to come and hear these amazing new loudspeakers in our store!!