4 Creative Ways to Use Smart Lighting Control This Holiday Season

As we enter the fall season, have you started planning for the holidays? Whether your family is visiting or you’re hosting festive get-togethers with friends, you’ll need food, drinks, music, and ambiance. And nothing sets the perfect mood like lighting.

Whatever your fall and winter entertaining will look like, a smart lighting control system can make it easier than ever to manage lights for mood, safety, and energy efficiency. Save time with personalized one-tap scenes and lighting automation that highlight your home and delight your guests.

Get inspired by exploring four creative ways you can use intelligent lighting solutions by Lutron and Ketra to make your holiday festivities in Laguna Beach, CA simpler, safer, and happier this year.

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Set the Mood with Soft, Amber Tones

As we mentioned, lighting is key to setting the right ambiance for your festivities. After all, an evening party under bright, harsh, white lighting doesn’t exactly sound appealing. Instead, Ketra tunable lighting puts a near-infinite color palette of light shades at your fingertips.

Use the Lutron Connect app to fine-tune your kitchen and dining room lights to the perfect shade of amber, and then dim them to set the mood for an intimate gathering with friends. Lutron also lets you create and save light scenes to use for later so that they’re easy to activate with just a button tap on an app or wall keypad.

 

Add a Splash of Color with Ketra

Ketra tunable LEDs present you with 17 million colors of light from a single source, so why not take advantage and experiment with fun color themes? Play with pink and orange hues in the fall, switch to reds, greens, and blues in December, and celebrate your favorite sports teams with coordinated team colors for all your game-watching parties.

With Ketra lighting solutions, you’ll never have to worry about color degradation—a common issue seen in other LED solutions. Ketra’s Color Lock technology actively preserves color throughout the lifespan of your lights, presenting you with vibrant, high-definition color precisely where you want it.

 

Automate Exterior Lights

Guide visitors to your door safely with exterior lights that automatically illuminate at sunset. With Lutron, you can schedule your outdoor lights to an astronomical timeclock so that they turn on at sunset and off again at sunrise. Plus, there’s no need to worry about daylight saving time; your lights will adjust on their own!

Automating lights throughout your outdoor living spaces also increases safety as family and friends navigate the backyard at night. Mitigate tripping hazards, deter potential intruders, and keep the party going long after the sun goes down with a well-designed and automated landscape lighting system.

 

Monitor Your Lights While You’re Away

Perhaps your holiday plans involve lots of travel! If so, improve your peace of mind by scheduling certain lights to turn on in the evening to make it seem like you are home and monitor their status remotely using the Lutron Connect app. If you’re expecting a pet sitter or house cleaner to visit your property while you’re away, use the Lutron Connect app to turn on the porch and foyer lights so that they don’t walk into a dark home.

 

Transform how you live and entertain with intelligent lighting solutions by Lutron and Ketra. Learn how to upgrade your home lighting system by contacting the certified Lutron and Ketra dealers at Vision and Sound. We’d love to work with you! Get started by reaching out to us here or sending us a message in the chat box below to speak with one of our lighting experts now.