Lighting Control & Custom Window Treatments in Houston & Austin

We design and integrate automated lighting and shading systems that make sophisticated homes easier to live in while giving architecture, interiors, and artwork the light they deserve. For homeowners in Houston and Austin planning a substantial technology investment, we're a lighting automation company focused on making every room feel intentional.

Sophisticated Smart Lighting and Shading Systems

Our team integrates Lutron LED luminaires, tunable lighting, and automated shading to create a coordinated experience across the home. Instead of treating fixtures, controls, and shades as separate decisions, we design them to work together around the way you live. Downlights, linear fixtures, scenes, keypads, and shading can all contribute to a cleaner interior and a more intuitive daily routine.

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Houston (832) 509-4663

Austin (512) 596-1376

Professional Lighting Design

Creating a beautiful home involves more than selecting high-end furniture and the right paint colors. Light changes how architectural details, finishes, artwork, and furnishings are perceived throughout the day. Our design approach considers both aesthetics and practical use, from focused task lighting to relaxed evening scenes. You can work with our experts to coordinate lighting and shading controls around your routines, interior design, and the experience you want each room to create.

The Benefits of a Lighting Designer

Many homeowners rely on a general contractor or electrician to handle lighting as part of a larger construction scope. A dedicated lighting designer gives the lighting plan its own level of attention, considering how fixture placement, beam spread, color temperature, dimming, and control affect the finished space. Our team brings technical and stylistic considerations together so that the system supports the architecture rather than feeling like an add-on.

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Our Expertise:

We stay current on lighting and control technology through ongoing training and apply relevant options to the specific project.
We use layered lighting techniques to make architectural details, artwork, furnishings, and daily-use areas feel intentional.
We plan systems with local code requirements in mind for projects in Houston and Austin.
We coordinate equipment selection and bidding around the approved design scope and project budget.
We give each fixture, control point, and scene a defined role so the finished system feels cohesive and not overbuilt.

Lutron & Ketra Lighting Control Expertise

For homeowners already familiar with premium lighting technology, the difference is not simply choosing Lutron or Ketra products. It is designing the fixtures, controls, scenes, and shades as one system so the home performs consistently from room to room. Our team works with Lutron lighting and control solutions, including Ketra tunable lighting, to create environments that can shift with architecture, activities, and time of day.

This level of work is best suited to larger residential projects where lighting and shading are treated as core design infrastructure instead of a collection of standalone devices. If you are comparing systems, controls, keypad options, or tunable-lighting experiences, ask our team about available manufacturer showroom experiences so you can evaluate the smart technology in person.

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1,700 K

Very warm, red-toned light can create an intimate, low-light atmosphere for evening settings.

2,700 - 3,300 K

Warm white light complements wood finishes and creates a softer, more inviting appearance.

4,100 - 4,150 K

Cooler white light can suit task-oriented spaces such as kitchens, offices, and work areas.

5,500 - 6,000 K

Daylight-like tones can make finishes and decor appear crisp and vibrant.

6,500 K

Bright, cool light creates a clean visual character for spaces where a daylight appearance is desired.

15,000 - 27,000 K

Very cool blue tones are highly specialized and should be used selectively for particular visual effects.

1,850 K

Candle- and sunset-like warmth can create a relaxed atmosphere for dining or evening entertaining.

3,000 K

Neutral-warm white provides a comfortable balance for reading, family rooms, and everyday living.

5,000 K

Crisp daylight tones can be useful where accurate, bright illumination is preferred.

6,200 K

Blue-white illumination creates an energetic, daylight-like appearance.

6,500 - 10,500 K

Cooler blue tones can support highly focused task lighting where visual contrast is important.

1,700 K

Match flames & low-pressure sodium lamps

2,700 - 3,300 K

Incandescent lamps & soft-white flourescent lamps

4,100 - 4,150 K

Moonlight; cool-white lamps

5,500 - 6,000 K

Vertical daylight

6,500 K

Daylight; overcast fluorescent lamps

15,000 - 27,000 K

Daylight; overcast fluorescent lamps

1,850 K

Candle Flame, sunrise, sunset

3,000 K

Warm-white fluorescent lamos

5,000 K

Horizon daylight

6,200 K

Xenon short-arc lamp

6,500 - 10,500 K

LCD or CRT Screen

Layer Your Lighting for a Balanced Home

A single light source can leave a room feeling flat, create dark areas, or make some tasks harder to see. We combine ambient, task, and accent lighting so the room feels balanced while remaining adaptable for work, relaxation, entertaining, and display.

Ambient Lighting

Create an even foundation of light using natural daylight, recessed fixtures, decorative fixtures, or other general illumination. This layer establishes the overall comfort and brightness of the room.

Task Illumination

Add focused light over desks, kitchen counters, reading areas, or other work surfaces. The goal is to put useful illumination where specific activities happen without overpowering the rest of the room.

Accent Fixtures

Use directional or higher-output light to draw attention to artwork, architectural features, textures, and objects you want to emphasize. Accent lighting gives the room depth and visual hierarchy.

Bright living room with a white sectional sofa, floor lamps, and large windows letting in natural light.

Cozy living room with dim lighting, showcasing a white sectional sofa, floor lamps, and a soft, inviting atmosphere.

Warmly lit living room featuring a white sectional sofa, floor lamps, and a welcoming ambiance for social gatherings.

Darkened living room set for a movie night with a white sectional sofa, floor lamps, and a cozy, intimate setting.

Morning Focus

Start the workday with a scene scheduled around your routine. A home office can transition to brighter ambient and task lighting at a set time, reducing the need to adjust multiple fixtures individually.
Restorative Sleep

Create an evening scene that lowers light levels and shifts the room toward warmer tones before bed. Activate it from a keypad, mobile app, or bedside control so the environment changes without interrupting your routine.
Social Gatherings

Prepare the kitchen, living room, and outdoor areas for entertaining with a coordinated scene. Lighting levels can be set for conversation, dining, and circulation, while integrated landscape lighting extends the experience beyond the interior.
Home Cinema

Set the theater for movie night with one command. Decorative sconces can dim while low-level pathway or floor lighting remains available for safer movement without competing with the screen.

Handcrafted Architectural Fixtures

Successful lighting design takes more than standard ceiling cans. We use a mix of architectural and decorative fixtures to create layers of light that support the room’s design and its practical needs. Pendants, downlights, linear lighting, and retrofit options can each play a different role. The right combination makes daily tasks easier while keeping the ceiling plan and overall interior visually disciplined.

Elegant dining area with a modern chandelier, table lamps, and framed artwork, creating a sophisticated and cozy atmosphere.

Custom Lamp Styles

Showcase Your Style

Select fixture styles that combine visual character with useful performance in primary living areas. Adjustable track luminaires can add flexibility where artwork, furniture layouts, or display areas may change over time.

Modern home exterior illuminated with downlights showcasing architectural features and large windows.

Precision Downlights

Fixed or Directional LED Downlights

Variable beam widths make downlights useful for ambient illumination, wall washing, artwork, and architectural details. Square and round aperture options can be coordinated with the interior design so the fixture language feels deliberate throughout the Houston or Austin home.

Linear Lighting

Lutron Luminaires

High-output linear fixtures work well for cove, niche, and wall-wash applications. Diffused lenses help soften the appearance of the source and reduce visible hot spots, creating a cleaner line of light in tight architectural spaces.

Cozy kitchen with wooden cabinets, recessed ceiling lights, and a staircase in the background.

LED Retrofit Options

All-Encompassing LED

For existing homes where extensive rewiring is undesirable, selected wireless LED solutions can provide room-by-room or individual-fixture control. Tunable beam angles and calibrated light output can help update the experience while respecting the constraints of the existing architecture.

Manage Your Lighting & Shading Control with One Touch

Shift the mood of the home without having to manage a wall full of switches. Keypads, dimmers, touchscreens, and mobile controls can call up coordinated lighting and shading scenes in seconds, giving you control that feels simple even when the system behind it is highly engineered.

Automated Lighting and Shading

Home lighting automation delivers more value when the controls are as intentional as the fixtures. We centralize control where appropriate, allowing scenes to coordinate lights and shades throughout the residence while reducing visual clutter on the walls. The result is a cleaner installation and a more intuitive experience for family members and guests.

User Interfaces

Access personalized controls from dedicated keypads, touchscreens, or mobile apps. Depending on the system design, you can review lighting and shade status, make adjustments, and recall saved scenes without navigating a collection of separate devices.

System Processors

The processor coordinates communication between control devices, lights, and shades. We specify system architecture and processing capacity based on the residence's size and complexity, so commands remain responsive as scenes and integrated functions grow.

Dimming Control Panels

Remote dimming panels can centralize control equipment in a utility or equipment space, eliminating the need to distribute switches throughout finished rooms. This approach can reduce wall clutter while giving the system a structured way to manage lighting loads, shades, and related functions.

Sleek Dimmers and Switches

Smart keypads can combine several commands in a single location, reducing the number of visible controls. Lutron Allise and Palladiom options offer refined finishes and can use custom-engraved buttons for frequently used scenes, helping the control interface feel consistent with the interior design.

Wall-mounted Lutron smart switch on a dark geometric-patterned wall.

Minimalist black touch-sensitive Lutron light switch on a white wall in a bright, modern home.

Elegant Lutron Alisse black smart switch with "Energize" and "Relax" buttons on a textured dark wall.

Sleek silver Lutron wall switch with buttons labeled "Open," "Preset," and "Close," next to a window with a grey shade.

Lighting & Shading Technology That Supports Your Well-Being

Automated lighting and shading can make it easier to adjust the home as daylight, activities, and routines change. Scheduled scenes, voice control, keypads, or mobile access can shift light levels, color temperature, and shades throughout the day without requiring constant manual adjustments.

How to Make Lighting a Natural Part of Your Day

Your home environment changes from morning to night, and the lighting should adapt to it. Tunable lighting and automated shading let you create different conditions for waking, working, entertaining, and winding down. Controls can be personalized around the way your household uses each space, then adjusted as routines change over time.

Modern bedroom with a large bed, accent pillows, and a sliding glass door opening to a balcony.

Simulated Sunlight

Tunable lighting can shift in appearance throughout the day to create a more daylight-inspired interior experience, particularly in spaces where natural light is limited or inconsistent.

Luxurious bathroom featuring a large shower area with marble walls and multiple windows.

Color Precision

Choose from a broad range of white-light settings and, where the specified system supports it, vibrant color options. Fine control makes it easier to tune the room for a particular activity, finish, artwork, or mood.

Mother and daughter engaged in homework at a dining table with a colorful vase of flowers.

Vibrant Settings

Create scenes that make artwork, materials, and architectural details read differently throughout the day. Tunable white light gives you the flexibility to select the appearance that best complements the space.

Group of friends enjoying a cozy evening in a warmly lit living room with a TV.

Golden Glow Dimming

As evening scenes lower the light level, warmer tones can create a softer visual atmosphere for dining, conversation, or winding down at the end of the day.

Bright and open dining area with a large table, modern chandelier, and a staircase leading to the upper floor.

Long-Term Color Lock

Color consistency matters when multiple fixtures are expected to work together across a room or residence. We prioritize lighting technologies that maintain a stable visual appearance over time and coordinate them in the specification.

Quiet and Customizable Automated Shades

Automated shades add privacy, daylight control, and a finished architectural layer without requiring daily manual adjustment. Select from high-end fabrics and styles that coordinate with the interior design, then integrate shade movement with lighting scenes and schedules. In Houston and Austin, controlling direct sun can also help reduce glare and limit solar heat entering key living spaces.

Integrated Shading & Drapery Control

Lighting control is most effective when electric light and natural light are planned together. Automated shades and motorized drapery can be coordinated with lighting scenes so that a room responds as a single environment, instead of requiring you to manage windows and fixtures separately.

A morning scene might open selected shades while bringing interior lighting to a comfortable level. An afternoon scene can reduce glare and direct sun on exposed windows. In the evening, shades or drapery can close for privacy while warmer lighting takes over. The exact sequence should follow the room, exposure, fabric selection, and household routine rather than a one-size-fits-all schedule.

For larger homes, centralized control also makes it easier to manage multiple window treatments across rooms or floors from a keypad, app, or programmed scene. Fabric and drapery selections should still support the interior design; automation is there to make those treatments easier to use, not more visually complicated.

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Why Choose Automated Shading for your Home?

Automated shades can make morning and evening routines more predictable while giving you better control over privacy, glare, and direct sun. Scheduled movement can close selected exposures during the hotter parts of the day, while centralized controls allow adjusting multiple windows at once. Fabric, openness, and style can be selected to complement the room.

The Smart Shading Experience:

Integrate shades into the broader home control system so that lighting, climate, and window treatments respond as coordinated scenes.
Create zones so that different rooms receive the appropriate amount of daylight and privacy for their use.
Program groups of shades to move together and follow schedules designed around the household’s routine.
Give family members straightforward control from keypads, apps, or other approved interfaces.

The Benefits of Smart Lighting and Shading Systems

Energy Savings

Programming shades to reduce direct solar gain during hot periods can help limit heat entering the home. Seasonal strategies can also make better use of available daylight and winter sun where appropriate.

Home Security

Timed movement of shades can make the home appear occupied while you are away.

Design Integration

Choose from a wide range of materials and fabrics so that automated shades coordinate with the room’s architecture, furnishings, and finish palette rather than looking like a technology add-on.

Rapid Privacy

Close one shade, a room, or a larger group from a single control. Scheduled scenes can also provide privacy automatically at the times your household prefers.

Furniture Protection

Direct sunlight and ultraviolet exposure can contribute to fading over time. Scheduled shading can help limit exposure on flooring, artwork, and furnishings during the brightest parts of the day.

Roller Shades

Solar Shades

Cellular Shades

Woven Roman Shades

Blackout Shades

Bright bedroom featuring Lutron horizontal sheer shades, a stylish bed, and a comfortable chair.

Horizontal Sheer Blinds

Roman Shades

Lighting Control for Houston & Austin Homes

We design lighting and shading controls for substantial residential projects in both Houston and Austin, with system planning tailored to the architecture, interior design, and daily use of each home. The objective is a consistent experience across the residence, from fixture selection and tunable lighting to keypads, scenes, shades, and drapery integration.

If you are building, renovating, or upgrading a large home in either metro, the best time to discuss lighting control is when the architectural, electrical, and interior design decisions are still being coordinated. Existing homes can also be evaluated for retrofit options where the architecture and project goals support them.

Request a Houston or Austin Lighting Consultation

Houston (832) 509-4663

Austin (512) 596-1376

Lighting & Shading Control FAQs

When should lighting control be planned for a new build or renovation?

Earlier coordination gives the lighting, electrical, interior design, and control decisions more room to work together. If plans are already underway, our team can review the current stage and identify what can still be coordinated.

Can Lutron and Ketra lighting work with automated shades and drapery?

The system can be designed so that lighting, shades, and motorized window treatments respond through coordinated controls and scenes. The exact integration depends on the selected equipment and project scope.

Is this service intended for simple bulb or switch upgrades?

Our focus is on professionally designed residential systems where lighting, shading, controls, and architecture are planned as an integrated experience. Homeowners looking for a substantial, design-led system will get the most value from this approach.

Can you work with an existing home?

Yes. Retrofit options for automated lighting in existing homes can be evaluated depending on the home, wiring, architecture, and desired scope.

Do you have a showroom?

We do not have an in-house showroom. Ask our team about available manufacturer showroom experiences for evaluating lighting and control options.

Build a Better Environment With Lighting & Shading Control

Bring lighting, shading, and control into a single, professionally designed system tailored to your home's architecture and the way you live. For substantial residential projects in Houston or Austin, our home lighting automation team can help define the right scope, coordinate the details, and carry the system from design through installation.

Request a Lighting & Shading Consultation

Houston (832) 509-4663

Austin (512) 596-1376

Corporate:

28088 State Hwy 71, Horseshoe Bay, TX 78657, USA

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Houston:

7055 Old Katy Rd, Houston, TX 77024, USA

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Austin:

202 Hunters Pass Bldg 22, Spicewood, TX 78669, USA

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