Convenience, comfort, and control are the main homeowner benefits when incorporating a smart home system. While this is important, this is not what inspires interior designers and architects to build a better home. Smart home technology should stretch the imagination of architects and designers. It should act as a new toolbox that has endless possibilities. Smart home technology should bring …
Residential Lighting Design Tips: Go From Ordinary to Extraordinary
Lighting technology is evolving rapidly—spurred by energy efficiency awareness and laws—with options including compact fluorescent, halogen, LED and other types of light bulbs, integrated into a home. What isn’t changing is the important role that lighting plays in creating a healthy, safe home environment. Lighting is a powerful tool in a person’s health, and in their daily lives. The ability …
AV Interior Design Tips: 5 Innovative Motorized TV Lift Ideas
Televisions that disappear into the ceiling, the floor, cabinet or pretty much anywhere else are the type of futuristic feature we associate with some sci-fi movies or high-tech interior designs. During the past few years we have come closer to making this a more approachable feature, less fictional and more realistic. The TV lift concept opens up many possibilities when …
Interior Design App Hutch Makes Designing Your Space that Much Easier
While late to the party of industries that have been significantly disrupted by technology, interior design is finally turning a new page with Hutch – the interior design app that takes a photo of your room and virtually redecorates it. Recently, Zillow, the online real estate platform, invested 10 million in the technology. This new investment means that Hutch has raised …