We won't say that fall and winter come without warning in Georgia, but does it go from pretty balmy to quite cool in a hurry come November? Or is it just us? Or maybe it's the effect of daylight savings time? 

If shorter days and less sun have had an effect, we may have a solution for you – home automation. Smart features in your home can help you with the transition to the crisper seasons in our fast-growing Woodstock suburb. And fear not, you know winter in Atlanta isn’t protracted or severe, so it won’t be long till the warm spring and summer are back! In the meantime, GHT Group, your local home automation company, has some smart tech to make the seasonal transition just a little easier. Keep reading for four of our favorites smart features below. 

In the sunny Florida Panhandle, window shades are a must for a variety of reasons, most of which are likely obvious to you. You want to control the sun for heat buildup, protect your interiors from too much UV ray exposure, and add privacy to your Santa Rosa Beach home.

Of course, all that can be achieved without powering your shades. So, can manual shades compete with custom motorized shades? Let the comparison begin!

Landscape lighting makes an impactful addition to your property. When designed well, a landscape lighting system can boost curb appeal and help your home stand out among the rest in Alys Beach, FL.

While it’s fun to get creative with how you light up your home, our landscape lighting company recommends installing lighting to bolster safety first. Then you can expand your system to add unique beauty to your property! Below, learn four essential front yard areas that require light for safety.

Have you had a Control4 smart home system for a while? Congratulations, you’re likely enjoying the ease it brings to daily life in your Milton, GA home. The other great thing about your smart home investment is that it keeps improving. Since 2004, Control4 has been on a never-ending quest to make your home smarter and easier to manage.

You may be completely happy with what your smart home does today, but there are some new wrinkles and features that could make your experience that much better. And they’re all available with a call to GHT Group, Atlanta’s leading Control4 installer. Keep reading below to learn about three new features you might just have to have!

When designed well, your backyard can feel like a nice escape from home—even though you haven’t technically left. Fresh air, outdoor views, a bubbling hot tub, and good company is often all it takes!

Still, unexpected weather changes can force you right back inside if your outdoor living spaces aren’t equipped with the protection needed from extreme temperatures, sunrays, bugs, and rain.

When you add motorized outdoor shades to your Atlanta, GA backyard, you can keep these elements at bay and enjoy your exterior living spaces all day long and in any season! Below, learn four smart ways to use motorized outdoor shades for extended fun in the sun (or moonlight).

If you’re building, remodeling, or simply tired of the current window treatments in your living areas, you might be overwhelmed with all the choices available for window covering options. As with most things, one of the best ways to start the process is to think about how you actually use your living spaces. For most people, these rooms are for relaxing, socializing, and entertaining – but some of these uses will rank higher in importance than others.

Then we have the practical and aesthetic considerations, such as light control, energy efficiency, and décor and style. Does this sound like a lot? Maybe, but let the custom window treatment experts at GHT Group help with a few suggestions for your Roswell, GA home. Ready? Explore four popular options below. 

It's likely that if someone mentions multi-room audio, the Sonos name invariably comes up. The company has made a reputation for itself with simplified audio solutions that sound great, look stylish, and are easy to live with. And not only do they work in one room, but it's also effortless to build a houseful of Sonos audio in perfect synchrony. 

Is a Sonos multiroom system right for your Atlanta, GA home? That's what we're here to discuss! Please read on for four reasons people love Sonos whole-house audio. 

When it comes to reducing home energy use, small efforts make a big difference. In fact, with the right technology, you can reduce your energy use with almost no effort.

While there are many ways to save energy, we’re focusing on lighting control in this blog. By investing in a whole-home lighting control system, you can easily manage every connected lighting load in your home from one interface. Check the status of your lights remotely, turn lights off from anywhere, and automate lighting schedules. Right away, this solution helps make saving energy easier.

Still, you can reduce energy use even more—without lifting a finger—when you add the following light products to the lighting control system in your Destin, FL home. Let’s look at these products below.

What’s the first thing you should think about when building a home theater? Is it the screen? The speakers? The lighting? While many details go into designing a home theater, savvy home theater designers know what drives the rest – seating.

While the type of seating is very important, the number of seats will really dictate many other things, such as screen size and placement, speaker placement, acoustic treatments, and more. Let’s explore how home theater designers think about seating and how that can impact the next home cinema in your Kennesaw, GA home.

Lutron is a company with over six decades of experience devoted to managing light in both home and commercial environments. Starting with the solid-state dimmer in 1959, the company’s product portfolio has grown to 15,000 current products!

Lutron is a company that never stops innovating. With tunable LED lighting like Ketra and their extensive motorized shading line, Lutron dealers like GHT Group in Santa Rosa Beach can provide a complete lighting management solution for your Florida Panhandle home.  Keep reading below to learn more about recent Lutron products that continue to raise the bar in lighting control.

Sometimes, technology adds needless complexity to life. Shouldn’t technology make our life easier? When it comes to home automation, it’s surprising how some products and solutions seem to forget that critical aspect. Sometimes you get new innovative ways of doing things, but often you have to adjust to the vagaries of the technology.

As a company that has been at the forefront of smart home automation for decades, Crestron believes technology should simplify, not complicate. With the latest iteration of Crestron Home, they continue to deliver on that premise with an intelligent platform designed to make managing a smart home as simple, intuitive, and natural as possible. As a longtime Crestron dealer in Metro Atlanta, GHT Group is excited by the evolution of Crestron Home and the ease it presents in leveraging the full power of home automation, from lighting to climate to entertainment to security and more.

We jest a little here; we don’t think you work in the dark. Yet, working with bright computer screens sometimes leads people to believe that they need less light in their workspace. Nothing could be further from the truth! The light from computer screens is no substitute for proper interior lighting that gets you through your workday.

We’ve written before about human-centric lighting and how light affects us throughout the day. With so many people continuing to work from home, it's even more critical that people understand how it can affect your work and energy levels. As an interior lighting design company, GHT Group has put together a few tips on lighting techniques for your Smyrna office space, whether for your home-based business or your corporate management position at Georgia-based Coca-Cola or Delta headquarters.

In the technology world, some companies succeed wildly for some time only to fade away when confronted with changes and new competitors. Others manage to survive great shifts in their industry. Remember DEC in minicomputers? How about Packard and Studebaker automobiles? These once great companies faded, were absorbed into others, or disappeared. 

Some companies manage to transcend technological and industry change and continue to thrive. McIntosh Audio is one such brand. By continuing to focus on delivering a high-end audio experience, they manage to continue succeeding with products that offer old-fashioned analog performance with new-fangled digital technology essential for today’s audio. Today’s McIntosh continues to make built-like-a-tank amplifiers for which it is renowned, along with newer lifestyle products and automotive audio systems for luxury brands. As a proud McIntosh dealer in Atlanta, GHT Group is pleased to display McIntosh products in our 20,000 square foot Marietta showroom. 

So, what’s new in Mcintosh audio? Keep reading to find out about three new products you may want on your holiday wish list!

We love the Klipsch Heritage speaker line, and we've spilled a fair amount of digital ink about them on these blog pages. But, if you're an audio buff, it's not likely you're going to just take our word for it – even if we do have over 30 years in the audio biz serving Georgia customers from Canton to Atlanta.

While we think Klipsch Heritage presents extraordinary value in high-fidelity audio, it’s prudent to listen to what jaded audio reviewers – the people that listen to a host of products from many manufacturers – have to say about Klipsch Heritage. We’ve chosen a few of the best reviews to highlight here. Spoiler alert – they’re all good. If you want to skip the rest of the blog, come down to our Marietta showroom and listen for yourself. You might just end up taking home a pair! Wait, check that; Klipsch Heritage speakers are hand-built to order in the USA, and you can choose your book-matched veneer finish. OK, if you’ve read this far, you may as well read the rest of this; hopefully, you'll be even more convinced about how good the Klipsch Heritage line is.

It feels like summer just ended, and we're already starting to think about the fall holidays. As pleasantly cooler weather descends upon Georgia, we can shift our focus to holiday celebrations, indoors and out. October will bring Halloween, November is Thanksgiving, and of course, the end of the year brings Christmas, Hannukah, and Kwanzaa.

Every holiday seems to have its trademark colors. So why not celebrate with colorful light? Let GHT Group, one of the leading outdoor lighting companies in Alpharetta and metro Atlanta, show you how. Keep reading for bright outdoor lighting design ideas for the upcoming season.