See How a Custom Integrator Brings Smart Home Dreams to Life 

 

Creating the perfect living space is a complex and multifaceted endeavor. Atmosphere, comfort, and functionality are all essential elements of a well-designed home. But in today's age of smart living, there's a new dimension to consider: seamlessly integrating technology into the design. 

 

After all, how will a multi-room sound system, surveillance cameras, and all that wiring affect your carefully designed home? Are there ways to seamlessly incorporate audio, video, and smart technology without detracting from your desired aesthetic? 

 

This is where custom integrators like BRAVAS step in to bridge the gap between design and technology, creating smart home designs that are both environmentally pleasing and technologically advanced. 

 

If you’re building a new house or renovating in Southwest Florida, here’s why you should hire a BRAVAS custom integrator to work alongside your interior designer! 

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Integrators & Designers: A Shared Vision

Both interior designers and custom integrators like BRAVAS are crucial in realizing a homeowner's vision for their smart living space. We collaborate closely to ensure that the design aesthetics align with the integration of smart home solutions. 

 

When you hire a technology integrator like BRAVAS, we can provide the following home solutions: 

 

• Smart lighting control 
• Motorized shading 
• Multi-room audio 
• Outdoor audio and video
• Home theaters 
• Smart HVAC control 
• Surveillance cameras 
• Alarms
• Automated doors 
• And more! 

 

In many cases, the smart technology installed directly influences and informs the interior design strategy. For instance, smart lighting control allows you to customize the brightness and color temperature of LED lighting fixtures. With an intentional lighting design, we can alter how walls, furniture, and artwork appear and open up a space with layered ambient, task, and accent lighting. 

 

Similarly, we’ll work with you and the designer to find the perfect fabrics and opacities for motorized shading. By instructing motorized shades to open automatically in the morning, you’ll never miss the beautiful sunrise bathing your new floors, walls, and countertops. 

 

The same idea applies to audio, home theaters, security devices, and control panels—we find the perfect materials and styles to suit your new home. 

Design Harmony: Blending Aesthetics and Functionality

Interior designers focus on aesthetics, selecting furniture, colors, and materials to create a cohesive and visually pleasing environment. Meanwhile, custom integrators work on incorporating technology seamlessly into that design. 

 

This may mean strategically running wires within the walls to connect the power and network to all necessary devices. We can also install in-wall and in-ceiling speakers for a clean, minimalistic appearance that won’t detract from the room’s interior. Do you dislike the appearance of a big, black rectangle when the TV’s off? We can install floor or ceiling TV lifts or an artwork or mirror TV that hides the display when not in use. 

 

As for controls, the smartphone app isn’t the only way to manage your automated home. We can also provide all-in-one remotes that control everything from lighting to the hot tub, plus wall-mounted control panels and custom keypads. Wall keypads are available in beautiful finishes and colors with personalized buttons like “Dinner” or “Party” that set your home to the perfect atmosphere. 

Technical Expertise: The Custom Integrator's Role

 

When creating a smart home, we’re responsible for programming the smart home system, automation, and audio-visual solutions. We’ll connect all devices to a centralized home controller so you can manage lighting, climate, security, and entertainment from one interface. 

 

Hiring a smart home integrator will unlock the best possibilities in a smart home system. We use only the most sophisticated controllers from brands like Control4, Crestron, Savant, and Elan. We’ll program customized automation settings that respond intuitively to your home’s environment. For instance, when your car pulls into the driveway, outdoor and first-floor lights can automatically turn on while the thermostat adjusts to your preferred temperature. When the sun sets, motorized window shades can automatically lower, and lights will adjust to a warm, golden hue for the night. 

 

These intelligent systems also allow you to remotely control and monitor your house from any location. Want the AC to be up and running by the time you return home? Take out your smartphone and remotely activate it, set to a comfortable temperature. Unsure if you left the lights on? Check the lighting icons on the smart home interface and see their real-time status. It’s all a reality when you partner with a smart home professional like BRAVAS. 

Communication and Collaboration: The Key to Success

 

Effective communication and collaboration between interior designers and custom integrators are essential for a successful smart home project. We work together to find compromises when design choices and technology integration may conflict. It's about achieving a unified vision that reflects the homeowner's desires.

 

If you wait until after your home installation is finished to loop in a smart home company, you’ll have to make some sacrifices. Since we can’t run data wiring through the finished walls, we may need to use wireless connections, which are less reliable than wired smart home solutions. Plus, you might need to ‘make do’ with some visible wires. Planning your smart home technology from the beginning is the surest way to get the best experience possible. 

The Final Result: A Cohesive and Functional Living Space

 

The end goal is to deliver a home that is not just beautiful but also functional, convenient, and future-proof. Interior designers and custom integrators ensure that the final result reflects the homeowner's personality, where technology seamlessly complements the design to create a truly exceptional living space. 

 

You won’t feel like you’re living in a space-age, techy spaceship (unless you want to.) Instead, smart home technology blends seamlessly into the fabric of your home. Automated scenes mean you won’t even have to think about adjusting the lights or lowering the speaker volume. Your smart home will be programmed to your preferences and can activate without any input necessary. 

Interested in Smart Home Design? 

 

So, when you embark on your next home improvement project, remember it's not a choice between aesthetics and technology. It's about embracing both to create a living space that's as beautiful as it is smart. 

 

Contact BRAVAS in Southwest Florida to discuss your smart home project and to get started on your installation today!