Your light fixtures are among the most innocuous and yet vital elements of your home, but they’re also very easy to forget, often only being noticed when a bulb burns out. But your lights are capable of so much more; all it takes to bring out their full potential is rethinking your lighting control. Check out all the benefits lighting control offers for homeowners in the Little Rock, AR region.

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SAFETY AND SECURITY

One of the most important functions lighting serves is keeping you and your loved ones safe in your home, and lighting control is an easy to way to boost your security. For instance, you can create a custom settings that make your lights turn on or off when you’re on vacation, thus deterring potential intruders.

You can also improve your security by automating the lights near entrances to your home. If you’re coming home from work, you want to be able to turn on the lights to your front door from the outside to help keep you safe. Lighting control allows you do that, and additional sensors around your home are a great way to keep unwanted guests at bay. 

A MORE BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO LIVE

Lighting is one of the methods we use to set the mood in whatever space we’re in and helps us regulate our internal biological clocks. Lighting your home gives you finer control over your environment and helps improve your interior design aesthetic. A series of dimmers and switches throughout your home allows for more subdued lighting in your bedroom or home theater, while maintaining an energetic mood in common areas like your kitchen or game room.

The same is true of outdoor lighting. Lighting control makes outdoor gatherings more enjoyable and your home more pleasant to look at. And with the holidays coming up, lighting control is a great way to manage your outdoor ambiance while also giving you more ways to add to the spirit of the coming holiday season.

SAVE YOURSELF TIME, MONEY AND INCONVENIENCE

In addition to the aesthetic benefits, there are other reasons to opt for lighting control. The ability to create preset lighting scenes or routines helps you save money by maximizing the daylight coming into your home instead of turning on lights where they’re not needed. On a similar note, you can create an “away” setting to turn off all your lights at once as you head to work, eliminating the possibility of a light staying on all day while you’re gone, draining electricity. Over time, these savings add up.

Home automation is ultimately about improved convenience, though, and there’s no denying how lighting control makes your home life more convenient. If nothing else, the ability to control any light from a central interface means you don’t have to get up every time you want to turn a light on or off. If you integrate lighting control with other electronics in your home the benefits only multiply. Add lighting control to your home theater, for example, and watch in awe as your lights dim as your TV and speakers turn on with a single button press.

If you want to learn more about the potential benefits of lighting control, contact our office in Little Rock. Call us at (501) 223-1115 or visit us online.