Outdoor Living – Certainly Not What it Used to Be! Remember when outdoor living was a nice wicker rocker on an outdoor porch; beautiful, but boring all the same. What could you do except stare at the garden greenery? Since then, the term “outdoor living” has come a long way. Our lives have moved out of the house and onto …
Uli+Friends: Architectural Illumination Planning
Uli Petzold’s koan-like credo is “Lighting is not lighting.” He explains: “If a space is evenly lit you give equal importance to everything. But some features deserve more emphasis than others.” “Not lighting,” means eliminating over-lighting, channeling daylight, adding smart fixtures, balancing them and reflecting them. Petzold runs the aesthetic illumination planning business “Uli+friends” in Miami, Florida, with a team …
Miami Beach Dream Home Project: “The Players” Part 1 and 2
These are the second and third videos produced by Ron Callis and Firefly Design Group about AHT Residential’s Robin Bogle’s “Miami Beach Dream Home Project”. The first video was an introduction to the project, and these videos stay on that same path, but give a little more depth of the key players involved and the idea behind it. All posts …
Crestron Cameo: Top AV Keypad
This is the second post in a three part series pertaining to user interfaces. The first post we covered the modern day all in one remote that Robert Adler first patent more then 50 years ago. Now, we are are going to explore AV keypads. A couple questions we are going to cover are practical places to use an AV …