Lutron Lumaris Brings Tunable White Light to Your Existing Home

Most accent lighting advice assumes you're starting with bare studs and open ceilings. That's great if you're building new, but your Bountiful home is already finished, and you're not about to tear up drywall just to add some under-cabinet glow or highlight your floating shelves. 

Lutron engineered Lumaris specifically for this reality—wireless tunable white lighting that installs in existing homes without the construction mess. Two complementary products make it work: flexible tape lights for linear applications and retrofit downlights for ceilings that are already closed up.

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Easy Tape Lights

Lumaris tunable white tape light solves the biggest retrofit problem: how to add accent lighting when you can't pull control wires through finished walls. The wireless controller with integrated LED driver eliminates that entire headache—no cutting walls for switch boxes, no fishing Cat5 through insulation. The tape itself comes in 16.4-foot and 98.4-foot reels, which can be field-cut down to 2-inch segments for exact custom fits. Under-cabinet lighting, toe kicks, mirror edges, cove details, floating shelves—anywhere you want a clean line of light.

The tunable white range spans 1,800K to 4,000K, from warm amber that mimics incandescent glow to bright white for task lighting. Control color temperature and brightness independently, or link them for a natural warm dimming curve. The 0.1% dimming capability means these actually go dim—not that "still too bright at the lowest setting" nonsense cheaper tape lights deliver. 

Because Lumaris uses Lutron's Clear Connect RF wireless technology, it integrates directly with RadioRA 3 or HomeWorks systems. Your accent lighting becomes part of whole-home scenes rather than an afterthought controlled by a separate app.

Retrofit Downlights for Finished Ceilings

Lumaris offers two paths for adding intelligent downlights to existing homes. Remodeler housings are installed through a standard cutout in your finished ceiling; no recessed can is required. Just cut the hole, wire it up, and snap in the canless IC-rated fixture. Retrofit housings drop into existing recessed cans without touching the drywall or paint, upgrading the builder-grade fixtures that came with your home. Both are available in 3" and 4" apertures.

The lighting itself matches the tape lights: 1,800K-4,000K tunable white with 90+ CRI for accurate color rendering. Like the tape lights, brightness and color temperature can be controlled independently or together to create the warm, dimmed light of incandescent bulbs. Wireless communication eliminates the need for rewiring—these integrate with your RadioRA 3 or HomeWorks system in the same way as the tape lights.

You can coordinate color temperature across all your Lumaris fixtures. The under-cabinet tape and overhead downlights shift together from cool bright white during meal prep to warm ambient glow for dinner. Precise color matching across different fixture types is harder to achieve than you'd think, and Lumaris handles it natively.

Layered Lighting Elegance Without Demolition

Combine tape and downlights to add ambiance and elegance. For example, a kitchen upgrade can employ Lumaris tape under the cabinets for task and accent lighting and retrofit downlights overhead to bathe the cabinets in a glow or set off the stove. A "Cooking" scene can be effectively illuminated with bright 3,500K across both fixture types, then a switch to "Dinner" mode dims everything and warms the light to 2,200K simultaneously. Your lighting layers work together to create the right ambiance.

Bathrooms benefit from the same approach. Tape light along mirror edges eliminates shadows on your face, while overhead retrofit downlights handle general room lighting. Both adjust together through scenes—bright and cool for morning routines, warm and dim for evening wind-down. Living rooms with cove lighting get coordinated ambient wash that matches upgraded can fixtures.

The wireless control architecture means professional layered lighting design without fishing wires through finished walls or cutting access holes you'll need to patch and paint. That's the entire point of Lumaris—intelligent lighting quality without the construction project.

Accent lighting upgrades shouldn't require tearing apart your home. Lumaris was engineered specifically for existing homes, bringing tunable white intelligence to the spaces you already live in. Contact us here to discover what’s possible with Lumaris accent lighting in your Utah home.