A Life of Luxury: Whole-Home Automation
Manage Your Home’s Lighting, Climate, Entertainment, and Security Effortlessly
At Balaklava, we're committed to creating spaces that enhance our clients' everyday lives, making their homes easier to manage and more enjoyable. One system that offers this ease and convenience is whole-home automation.
These systems offer one-touch control of your home’s lighting, climate, entertainment, and security. Even better? Thanks to programmed schedules, your home prepares itself for you in advance, creating the perfect environment for every occasion.
Let’s explore these remarkable systems and how to create a smart home that defines luxury living in Collingwood, Ontario.
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A Smart Home
A smart home controls all your smart devices and systems from one easy-to-use interface. Not only do your smart devices connect to this platform, but they also communicate with each other, offering a truly interactive home.
You can control these systems from touchscreens, elegant in-wall keypads, or handheld remotes. When you’re away, remote access allows you to check your home’s status from anywhere using your smartphone or mobile device. Did someone leave a door unlocked or the garage door open? With one touch, all the doors are locked, and the garage closes.
Lighting
No more flipping a light switch on and off when you walk in and out of every room. Now, you can control every light from one touchscreen. We can also program scenes that control multiple systems with one touch. For example, tap the “Away” button on the keypad next to the door, and all the lights turn off, the doors lock, and the alarm arms.
Are you getting home later than expected? Press the “Coming Home” icon on your smartphone, and the entryway, landscape, and kitchen lights illuminate. At the same time, the temperature adjusts, and your “Relaxing” playlist streams through the house through invisible in-wall and in-ceiling speakers.
One of our clients’ favorite features is natural or tunable lighting. In this setting, your home’s lights automatically transform throughout the day, mirroring the changing color of daylight. This lighting supports the internal clock that tells us when to be productive and when to sleep. You wake to lights the color of dawn. Midday, they’ve changed to a bright white, blue-toned hue that promotes focused concentration. By the day's end, they light your home in a soft, warm amber glow that tells your body it's time to relax.
At the same time, your smart shades take control of the natural light entering your home, which is important to your health and a home’s welcoming interior.
Entertainment
Many of our clients enjoy beautiful, pristine luxury homes. They hesitate to incorporate the latest home entertainment technology for fear of diminishing their home’s aesthetics. Today’s hidden technology lets you enjoy the latest 4K HDR TVs and high-performance audio without distracting from your home’s design. We can hide TV displays behind paintings and panels. When it’s time to enjoy a movie, tap the "Movie Night" icon, and the TV appears, the sound surrounds you, the lights dim, and the shades lower—a life of luxury.
This is just the tip of the iceberg in home automation possibilities. To learn more or to schedule a complimentary consultation, contact Balaklava today.
