Lighting & Motorized Shades

Light That Knows
What Time It Is.

From a few smart dimmers to fully centralized lighting and custom-fabricated shades — designed, installed and programmed for the way each room is actually used.

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Why It’s Worth Doing Properly

The Same Room, Two Different Hours

Good lighting design isn’t about brightness — it’s about the right layers coming up at the right time, without anyone touching a switch.

A foyer during the day, lit almost entirely by daylight — **Daytime**Shades manage the daylight and the fixtures stay off — the room lights itself.

The same foyer at night, lit by layered warm accent lighting — **After Dark**Accent, cove and path layers come up warm and low — architecture first, fixtures second.

Right-Sized to the Home

Four Levels of Lighting Control

Not every home needs the top of the ladder. Here’s an honest look at what each level does — and where it stops.

Entry Level

Z‑Wave Switches & Shades

Most affordable

The practical option for smaller homes and straightforward jobs — smart dimmers and shades that ride on the Z‑Wave radio already built into your alarm panel.

Runs off a hub you likely already have — a Qolsys IQ Panel 5 or IQ Pro
Everything lands in Alarm.com alongside your security system
Shades come in stock sizes only — no custom fabrics or sizing
Scene controllers like the Zooz keypad add four one-touch buttons
Those buttons can trigger anything on the panel, not just lights

Where it stops: limited finishes, stock shade sizes, and dimming that won’t match higher-end fixtures.

Z-Wave scene controller installed in the wall, with a large paddle and four programmable scene buttons

Purpose-Built for Lighting

Lutron Caséta

Best value

Still simple to deploy, but built by a lighting company — and it shows in the dimming quality and reliability. A great fit for almost any home.

Classic push-button smart dimmer, or the sleek slide-style Diva dimmer
Pico remotes and keypads for one-touch scene control anywhere
A Home/Away button at the entry is one of the easiest wins in the house
Pico remotes mount to a wall, sit on a pedestal, or ride in a drawer
Reliable Lutron RF that works through walls and floors

Where it stops: a limited palette of colors and finishes, and it isn’t built for whole-estate scale.

Lutron Caséta Diva dimmer and switch in a screwless Claro wallplate

High-End, No Pre-Wire Needed

Lutron RA3

Centralized Lighting

New construction

No switches. No dimmers. Every lighting load in the house runs back to a central panel, and the walls carry nothing but beautiful programmable keypads.

Every load is individually programmable — not just the ones with smart switches
Any keypad can be reprogrammed to control any light in the house
No more guessing which switch in a bank of five does what
The highest level of finish and customization available
Pre-wired from day one, so changes later are simple
Add, move or remove control without opening walls again
Systems like Lutron HomeWorks or Savant Panelized Lighting

Requires: planning during construction — this is the one to decide on before drywall.

Engraved keypads replacing traditional light switches

A walnut slat feature wall glowing with integrated low-voltage LED strip lighting, beneath a lit ceiling cove

Beyond the Switch

Low-Voltage Accent Lighting,
Built Into the House.

The difference between a lit room and a designed one is usually a strip of light you never see directly — and hidden LED work is low-voltage work, which makes it ours:

Coves and crown molding — concealed strips that wash the ceiling in warm, indirect light
Slat and feature walls — LED channels behind wood slats and stone reveals, glowing from inside the architecture
Theater rooms — recessed ceiling coves, fabric-panel washes and step lights that dim to nothing when the movie starts — see our theater work
Mirrors and vanities — backlit halos for gym and bathroom mirrors: even light on you, no glare in the glass
One system — every strip dims and joins scenes with the rest of the house, from a simple keypad to full Lutron or Control4 control

Low-voltage pathway lights and architectural up-lighting on a stone and timber home at dusk

Outside, After Dark

Landscape & Architectural
Lighting.

The same low-voltage craft, outdoors — layered lighting that makes the property look intentional at night instead of just visible:

Pathway and step lighting — safe footing that reads as design, not runway
Architectural up-lighting — grazing stone, timber and entry columns
Planting beds and trees — soft accents that survive Utah winters
On the clock — astronomic schedules bring it up at dusk, trim it late, and join the goodnight scene

Fabric, Not Just Function

Shades Made for the Room

At the custom level, shades stop being an accessory and become part of the architecture — sized to the opening, in the fabric the room actually calls for.