Designing with Light: Elevate Your Home’s Aesthetics

Stunning Illumination, Impactful Design

Light has a profound impact on a home’s design in ways few other elements can. In the right hands, it creates a unique sensory experience, changing moods and highlighting surfaces and textures we may have never noticed. It sets the stage for all of life’s activities, creating functional environments that speak to the heart of the matter. 

In the wrong hands, light is nothing more than illumination to perform our many tasks. There may be a pendant light over the kitchen island and a lamp in the reading nook, but it does nothing to transform those who view it. 

Light should be so much more. 

At Prodigy, we partner with Lutron’s Ketra, one of the most advanced lighting systems in the world. With its customizable technology, our lighting designers can create spaces of intrigue and beauty, as changeable as the weather and as breathtaking as storm clouds building up on the horizon. 

Here, we’ll explore the true meaning of architectural lighting design and how it’s transforming homes and those who live in them.

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Creating a Feeling

Intentional lighting design can be felt as soon as you enter a room. What’s interesting is that it’s the shadows and the darkness that are as much a part of the design as the illumination. Together, they form a picture, create a mood, and draw our attention to various elements within the space. 

In these homes, light acts as a thread, weaving its way through prearranged layers. Ambient light casts an overall glow. Natural light plays a significant part in this first layer of light. Task lighting provides illumination for us to read, cook, and work. Accent lighting draws our attention to artwork, the inlaid marble, and other special features.    

Aligning with Nature

Ketra’s Natural Light lets us harmonize your interior lighting with the outside world. The effect is one of natural light filling your home, from the sun-kissed, pale rays of dawn to the amber glow of a setting sun. Your home’s lighting transforms throughout the day, mirroring the natural world.  

This type of indoor lighting aligns your internal time clock to the rise and fall of the sun. You’ll find yourself resting more easily in the evening and sleeping more deeply, with increased energy during the day.

Multifunctional Lighting

Humans are nothing if not changeable, and yet, in many instances, our lighting has always stayed the same—one hue, one color, one intensity. Ketra’s full-spectrum tunable lighting changes that, giving lighting designers and your internal muse the ability to change your lighting for all of life’s activities, seasons, and holidays. 

Pre-programmed settings, such as evening, entertain, and relax, dial in the perfect lighting for each moment. For some, that means light that resembles candlelight for dining and saturated or pastel hues of limitless colors when entertaining.   

Elevating Art

While accent lighting highlights your favorite art pieces, Ketra’s Vibrancy takes it to a whole new level. Used in some of the finest art galleries, this technology allows you to tune white light to the exact shade and intensity that makes paintings, textures, and colors appear true to life and stunningly vibrant. You will see your favorite artist’s work in a whole new light or the exact light the artist used when creating the piece. 

While it may be hard to imagine, we’ve only scratched the surface of what’s possible in today’s architectural lighting. To discover more about the power of Ketra and lighting design, contact Prodigy.