You may think motorized shades sound like a luxury. Indeed, they are luxurious. However, onetime luxuries are now essentials and staples. When is the last time you cranked down a manual car window? Exactly, that’s what we thought.

Adding power to window treatments and shades are far more practical than power windows in automobiles. In a car, it's mostly about convenience, but motorized shades have real efficiency and even safety benefits.

When it comes to motorized shades, one name stands out – Lutron. Our favorite lighting control brand is also one of the premier vendors for powered shades and window treatments. Read on for four reasons why Lutron shades are not just a luxury for your Roswell, GA, home; they are also an excellent investment.

What is a whole-home lighting control system? Simply put, it’s lighting control for your entire house in Cumming, GA. We’re not being facetious with the explanation. You don't have to add lighting control everywhere to enjoy the benefits. Some smaller systems can do one room or several rooms. There are DIY products where you can make a few bulbs and switches smart but leave the rest of the lights alone. But a whole-home lighting control system gives you so many more options for control, aesthetics, energy efficiency, and automation with other smart features.

Lutron’s Homeworks is like the Cadillac (or Mercedes or whatever your preference) of lighting control systems. It’s the system that can pretty much do it all when it comes to managing lighting. What do we mean by doing it all? Space here doesn't allow us to do it complete justice, but we'll tell you about five of the best features in this blog. Please stay with us below!

Do you see beautiful pictures of home interiors and sometimes wonder why yours doesn’t quite look as good? You may have better decor and furnishings, but somehow it doesn’t come through. It might be the light. Just as the perfect photograph depends on expertly applied lighting, your home can look far better with the right illumination.

To help you see your Marietta, GA, home in the right light, we’ve assembled four top tips from expert lighting designers to get you started. Keep reading below!

It’s easy to take our lights for granted. We wake in the morning, flip a switch, and expect the lights to brighten our space. Then, we set out on our daily routine not always considering which lights should remain on to best accomplish our tasks. 

With a whole-home lighting control system that utilizes the best lighting solutions today’s market has to offer, you will no longer undervalue or disregard the power of lights. Your home’s illumination in WaterColor, FL will be transformed, from the soft or bright white lighting of your typical incandescent bulb to the full spectrum, color-tunable lighting of smart LEDs. 

The Lutron difference is undeniable. A world leader in precision-controlled motorized window treatments, Lutron offers the widest breadth of line, with eight shade styles and over 1,500 materials and fabrics. Their shading systems also integrate seamlessly with lights, security systems, climate systems, and home automation systems for ultimate convenience and energy efficiency.

If you’re in the market for Lutron shades, let this blog be your guide as you plan your project. We’ve answered your common questions about Lutron shades, from fabric selection to control options and more. As a Platinum Lutron dealer serving Metro Atlanta, our team at GHT Group has the information you need to make the best decisions for your spaces, style, and budget. Get our tips below.

In the not so recent past, tunable lighting was simply not a possibility. As we've discussed on these pages, tunable lighting refers to the ability to control the color temperature of a light source. With incandescent or fluorescent (including compact fluorescent) lighting fixtures, color temperature was fixed - you could get a cool white or warm white bulb of a specific color temperature. If you wanted color, you could get that, but that bulb would forever glow that same color too.

Tunable lighting introduces tremendous new flexibility for the lighting in your home. Science has shown that our bodies react to different light, and it regulates our rhythms, with bright white light providing energy and focus while dimmer, warmer light promotes relaxation and leads to more restful sleep. Beyond wellness, tunable lighting brings aesthetic benefits to your home as well.

When it comes to tunable lighting, one brand stands above the rest. Ketra is the pioneer in tunable LED lighting, and now as part of lighting leader Lutron, forms the most complete and technically advanced tunable lighting solution. Keep reading to learn more about Ketra lighting and how it can enhance your Marietta, GA home.

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!

Is there such a thing as a no-compromise solution? In reality, there are very few, but we think we have one of them for you. If you’re thinking of custom window treatments for a new home, remodel, or just a little redecorating, we highly recommend (implore, plead, urge, beg) that you consider making them motorized. Why? We’ve written at length on this subject and think motorized window treatments are like sliced bread in the smart home. In all seriousness, the benefits in convenience, luxury, comfort, and efficiency will pay dividends for many years. 

But you might think, don’t motorized window treatments involve wiring and installation foibles? Interestingly, we find that misconception still exists. Wireless motorized shading is as easy to install as regular window treatments and requires no special maintenance.

If your Buckhead, GA home leans modern, industrial retro-modern, or mid-century eclectic, you'll want to know more about the new wireless option for Lutron’s Palladiom motorized shades. Read more below!

You’ll have a lot of choices to make when adding motorized shades to your home in the Dunwoody or Metro Atlanta area. There are various control, model, and fabric options available. Then there’s the decision of how you want to power your shades. A lot of clients don’t realize they can pick between hard-wired shades and battery-powered ones.

The right choice, as with most technology, will come down to your family’s priorities and your home’s limitations. Are you most interested in having a lot of control options or a quick installation? Are you in new construction or looking for an upgrade to an existing home? This blog focuses primarily on the benefits of battery-powered shades and offers some recommendations from our Lutron partners.

If you’re considering adding a lighting control solution to your Atlanta home, you need to consider both the functional and aesthetic factors. On the functional side, you want a lighting control solution to offer many ways to control lights through apps, sensors, schedules, and wall-mounted controls. On the aesthetic side, you’ll consider the color temperature and dimming capabilities of lights and the look and style of the fixtures.

When it comes to those lighting wall controls, they need to meet your most stringent criteria – are they easy to use, save you time and effort, and look good doing their job? Lutron dealers like GHT Group understand these needs and have the full set of Lutron solutions available to meet your needs.

Lutron offers seven styles of wall-mounted controls, ranging from wired models to wireless models that use RF (radio frequency) for ease of installation in existing homes. We’ll cover three of these popular wireless styles below, so we hope you keep reading!

We love motorized shades, and we wonder how anyone can get along without them. Although “shades” might be the name most often associated with the motorized variety, you could attach most other window treatment terms to motorized (or powered, if you prefer) um, shades.

The most popular motorized shades are roller types, but one company goes way beyond those. Lutron is a world leader in lighting control as well as powered window treatments. Lutron’s mission is all about managing and controlling light, and regulating natural light is a big part of that.

If you didn’t know there were so many possibilities with Lutron shades for your Buckhead, GA home, you should definitely read the rest of this blog!

Lutron is an industry leader when it comes to motorized shades, creating products that allow homeowners to quickly adjust their shades, drapes, and blinds with the push of a button. This provides a variety of benefits, from better insulation to reducing the damage caused by U/V rays and increasing the amount of natural light in your home so you can be more energy efficient with your smart lights. By linking your motorized shades to a smart home control system, you gain total control of their movement and can set up schedules and scenes that automatically adjust your window treatments for different occasions and times of the day.

Keep reading to learn about how Lutron’s variety of motorized shades, drapes, and blinds can enrich your North Georgia or Birmingham home – whether in Alpharetta or beyond.

Lighting control is one of the most popular smart home accouterments, and for very good reasons. But those reasons will vary greatly depending upon people’s needs and motivations. For some, it’s the convenience of having more than one way to control lights, like from a smartphone or through a voice assistant. For others, a schedule or sensor that turns off lights brings efficiency and energy savings.

Perhaps the best reason for going with a whole-home lighting control system – and not just one room or a few lights – is all of the above. Each reason is justification enough for lighting control for a Milton, GA home, but it becomes so easy to rationalize when putting them all together. See what we mean below!

Lighting control is one of the most popular smart home features with Georgia homeowners. But is it a necessity or nice-to-have? The answer will depend on your preferences and lifestyle. We could direct you to our many blogs on lighting control, but we thought we could help by giving you a little quiz.

While there are several ways to control lighting in your Atlanta home, our solution of choice is Lutron, a pioneer and continual innovator in lighting. To see if Lutron lighting control is right for you, just answer the following questions in our little quiz. At the end, we'll score your answers and tell you how good a candidate you are for lighting control!

If you have moved to Midtown Atlanta in the past few years, you have seen tremendous growth and improvement in this urban enclave. The Olympic Games in 1996 helped accelerate that growth, and the area boasts amenities like the Woodruff Arts Center, Atlantic Station, great restaurants and so much more.

You enjoy living in your modern urban high-rise, but come summer the hot southern sun streaming in your floor-to-ceiling view windows makes your air conditioning work overtime. It's easy enough to draw the curtains or shades, but you don't want to block the view. And continually opening and closing drapes and shades gets tiring. What's the solution? Motorized shades.

You might think that motorized shades might be limiting in style, too modern, or challenging to install in your space. We'd like to politely dispel all those notions here and show you how motorized shades will enhance your urban Atlanta living spaces.

Ready to learn more? Just keep reading.