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Light & Shade · Lighting Design & Motorized Shades

Lighting design and lighting control from a Lutron dealer.

The kitchen comes up warm at seven, the glare leaves the island at three, and evening settles low before you think to ask. We design the light itself: the fixtures, the linear details, the scenes. A Lutron dealer in Columbus and Raleigh.

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Lighting design

The light is designed before the fixtures are.

Walk into a well-lit room and you notice the stone, the art, the faces across the table. You never notice the fixtures, because the light was planned before they were picked: which surfaces glow, which stay quiet, where the beams land at dinner versus at noon. We draw that plan directly on your floor plans, fixture by fixture, and the room carries it for good.

Recessed fixture layout

Recessed fixtures, aimed at what matters.

A ceiling gridded with cans lights the floor and leaves the room flat. We lay out recessed fixtures the other way: small apertures placed off the walkways and aimed at the counters, the artwork, the stone, with trims that sit tight to the drywall. The fixture schedule is coordinated with your electrician, so what's on the plans is what ends up in the ceiling. The floor takes care of itself.

Linear lighting

One unbroken line of light.

Under the cabinets, along the toe-kick, down the stair treads, behind the vanity mirror: light that reads as a single continuous line, with no hot spots and no visible source. The tape sits in a recessed aluminum channel under a diffuser, so all you see is the glow. It dims the whole way down and joins your evening scene like everything else in the room.

Scenes

Scenes tuned by hand, tested against real light.

Wake to warm light in the kitchen, lose the glare off the island at three, come home to an evening that's already set. Our programmers set the levels room by room and hour by hour, then come back and test them against the light actually coming through your windows, adjusting until each room holds. One press overrides anything, and nobody in the house will need a manual.

Backlit millwork lounge with warm accent lighting
Evening
Unwind
 Freestanding tub against a backlit marble feature wall
Night
Soak
 Wet bar with vivid red LED toe-kick and shelf accent lighting
Hosting
Scene
 Pantry with warm LED backlit shelving
Daylight
Display
 LED cove lighting in a beadboard tray ceiling
Arrive
Welcome
 Shower niche with LED accent lighting
Morning
Refresh
 Staircase treads with LED strip accent lighting
Evening
Pathway
 Wood handrail with integrated LED cove lighting along a staircase
Late
Goodnight
Shades

Motorized shades, moving as one line.

Hand-selected fabric on every window and no cords anywhere. A bank of shades across the great room starts and stops together, quiet enough that guests look up to see what moved. Most of our homes get a clean inside mount, the shade fitted inside the window casing. In a new build we pull the wiring during rough-in, before insulation and drywall; in a finished home, we fit fascia and fabric matched to the rooms you already live in.

Lighting control integration

The internet goes out. The house doesn't notice.

The evening scene still lands at dusk, the shades still drop, and every keypad on the wall still answers, because the processor behind the lighting control integration lives in your home, in the equipment enclosure or the rack. Schedules and scenes execute there; the internet only handles remote access and updates. The lights never know the difference.

Built to be opened

Open the lighting panel in one of our homes years from now and every run is terminated clean and documented, so the next technician reads it at a glance. The scenes still hold because someone tuned them by hand to those rooms.

Questions

What people ask us.

Are motorized shades worth it, and do they integrate with the rest of the house?
In the rooms you live in, yes. West-facing glass in July, a bedroom that needs true dark, a great room where a wall of manual shades never gets touched. Ours run on the same schedule as the lighting and answer the same keypad, so the whole wall of glass behaves without anyone standing there working cords.
What does a Lutron dealer actually install?
Everything between the panel and the button you press: the wiring, the shade motors, the keypads, and the programming that decides what one press does in each room. Lutron trains its dealers on the systems they install. In practice that training is the difference between scenes that hold for years and a system that needs constant revisits.
Can the lighting run on its own schedule without me touching it?
Yes, and that's the point of it. The house knows local sunrise and sunset and moves your scenes with the real sun through the year, so December mornings and June mornings both come up right. Touch nothing for a month and it stays correct. Because the logic lives in the house, the schedule survives an internet outage, and one press overrides any of it when you want the room your way.
What's the difference between LED strip lights and professional linear lighting?
The channel and the tuning. Strip lights stuck under a cabinet show every diode and every seam. We set the tape in a recessed aluminum channel under a diffuser, so the counter gets one even wash with no visible source, dimmed and scened with the rest of the room. Guests see the glow and go looking for the source.
Is it too late to add lighting control if the house is already built?
No. Sooner gives you more to work with, since wiring hides best before insulation, but we do real work in finished homes too: retrofit battery-powered shades, lighting control on existing wiring, cleanup of systems that were never finished right. We walk the house and explain the art of the possible.
The brands we build with
LutronControl4DMF LightingHK LightingDeakoProluxe
Getting started

Tell us how you live. We'll light it up.

Send us the plans, or photos of the rooms you have, and we'll mark up the lighting: fixture layout, linear details, shade pockets, keypad locations. Then we walk it with you, whatever stage the house is in.

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