Lutron Palladiom Shading and Controls Elevate the Most Fashionable Homes

This blog is the third of a three-part series introducing Lutron and its innovative lighting management solutions this month. Lutron's company mission is all about the management of light, both artificial and natural. And managing and harvesting light in your home is made easy with motorized shades and window treatments.

Lutron has a variety of motorized shading and window treatment solutions to fit just about any window in your home. The many fabrics, colors, and styles will impress even the most jaded interior designers that have done it all. But one Lutron shading solution stands out for elegance, design, and that "less is more" look – the Palladiom line. It embodies all the Lutron innovation and engineering that keeps the company at the forefront of lighting control.

Keep reading below to learn how Lutron Palladiom shading and keypads help manage light beautifully.

Create Powerful and Personalized Spaces with a Painter’s Palette of Light

Imagine for a moment a sunrise. Vibrant colors spread across the sky, and warm, soothing light fills the space around you. Then, as the sun continues to rise, it energizes you and your surroundings with brighter, bluer hues. By sunset, light returns to a soft amber shade that puts you to rest.

Light is as dynamic as the life it illuminates. Yet, we spend most of our lives indoors under stagnant, uninspiring light that doesn’t always serve us. What if your interior lights could evolve, too?

Learn How Lutron Raises the Bar for Creating Beautiful Light in the Home

It all started with a fascination for manipulated light. Lutron founder Joel Spira ran with a radical idea in the 1950s to create the first-ever solid-state light dimmer. In 1959, he achieved it. Just two years later, Lutron Electronics was founded—and with it, the birth of the lighting control industry.

Lutron has since invented thousands of lighting and shading products for homes and commercial spaces, from the dimmer switch to whole-home lighting and shading control systems. Their focus on quality, design, and customer satisfaction is just one of many reasons we’re thrilled to be a new Lutron dealer.

Below, learn what to expect when you choose Lutron as your brand for home lighting automation and control solutions.

Josh.ai Is the Smarter Voice Assistant That Understands What You Want

This month’s blog series was a deep dive into voice assistants for controlling a smart home. First, we looked at a brief history of voice control and compared and contrasted the two biggest names in the space, Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant; not coincidentally also two of the globe’s technology giants. 

This month, we’re going to introduce a different take on voice control. Amazon and Google are big players in consumer smart home devices and home automation. Still, their platforms are also designed to do much more, tying you to your personal information and an entire world of services on the internet. But there’s another approach to voice control platforms—one that doesn’t try to do everything but is expressly designed to make smart home voice control more intuitive and natural in your home: Josh.ai.

Let’s take a closer look at Josh.ai and how it provides a more intelligent alternative to managing your home by voice.

Learn What These DIY Voice Control Automation Platforms Bring to the Table

In our last blog, we explored the basics of voice control as a convenient method for commanding your smart home. With no need to tap buttons on a screen or remote, integrated voice assistant technology enables you to adjust lights, music, and even smart home scenes by simply speaking!

Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant are the two biggest voice assistant ecosystems on the market today. If you’re interested in adding voice control to your smart home, you may wonder how these two platforms compare. Which is the better choice for your smart home automation system?

Explore three key aspects of Alexa and Google Assistant below—including where they miss the mark.