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The Benefit of Natural Light

There’s nothing more beautiful than natural sunlight streaming into your home, creating a warm and vibrant atmosphere. It’s also good for a home’s inhabitants, enhancing moods, reducing stress, and promoting better sleep. Unfortunately, this same sunlight can damage your interiors and cause extensive solar heat gain in Tennessee summers.

A smart home manages this natural light for you. When the sun’s direct rays begin heating rooms and damaging floors and furniture, the motorized shades automatically close. If you prefer the look and control motorized blinds offer, you’ll notice the slats automatically adjusting throughout the day, letting in just enough diffuse sunlight.

Managing Sunlight from Hard-to-Reach Windows

Many homeowners love the look of skylights and the sunlight that brings a bit of nature indoors. However, the problem arises with excessive glare and direct UV rays. Then, when it’s cold outside, we lose heat through these beautiful windows. At Prodigy AV, we partner with several award-winning motorized shade manufacturers. One of these, Lutron, offers custom window coverings designed for every type of window, including impossible-to-reach skylights, architectural windows, and floor-to-ceiling windows.

Now, with the push of a button, you can open the tension shades covering your skylight in the early morning hours and close them when the direct sun’s rays begin shining through. They can also be automated to open and close depending on the sun's position.

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Integrated Home System

A Crestron home system integrates all of your smart home technology into a single home system. From your dashboard, you can get a quick status update of your entire home and navigate to different rooms to adjust the technology within each one. In just seconds, you can turn your TV to your favorite channel, dim the lights, adjust your thermostat, and lock your front door. Your entire home is always at your fingertips.

Elevated Entertainment

Home entertainment is how you relax at the end of the day and a great way to spend quality time with your family. With Crestron, entertainment is better than ever. You can incorporate a whole-home audio system that allows you to easily listen to your favorite playlists throughout your entire house or utilize listening zones so multiple family members can listen to different music at the same time.

Crestron also offers  4K video without any messy wiring. With Crestron’s DigitalMedia Technology, you can store all your sources, processors, receivers, and consoles away and still have your TV work seamlessly. Plus, every family member in the home can select their favorite channels, making it easy for everyone to navigate to their favorite entertainment.

Enhanced Security

Knowing your home is always safe is truly luxurious and makes it easier to relax and enjoy your home. Crestron Home always keeps you up to date on your home security status. With a quick glance at the control dashboard, you can see what doors are locked, if the garage is closed, or if the gate is secured. Quickly lock or unlock any access point in your home with the touch of a button. And with the 2N video door station, you can speak to and see live video of anyone on your doorstep.

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The Domino Effect

All your intelligent systems are connected to your home automation platform and each other. This enables them to work together, creating the perfect setting for various times of the day and activities. For instance, many clients enjoy waking to sunlight filtering through shades slowly rising. Their 'Good Morning' playlist gently nudges them, streaming through nearly invisible in-ceiling speakers. 

As the day advances, the shades on south-facing windows lower, reducing solar heat gain and the strain on HVAC systems. At the same time, the lighting in occupied rooms adjusts, maintaining the perfect level of illumination. Like a domino, one system affects another, creating the perfect atmosphere.

A Home That Welcomes You

Geofencing creates an invisible boundary tripped by your smartphone. This enables your smart home to start preparing for you as soon as you pull into the driveway at the end of the day. In response, it illuminates your landscape and first-floor lights, turns on your ‘Welcome Home’ playlist, adjusts the temperature, and heats the spa.  

A Space for Entertainment

Many clients incorporate distributed audio-video systems that deliver the best entertainment over the same platform. All the AV gear is tucked away in a closet and distributed to every 4K HDR TV and in-ceiling, bookshelf, and floorstanding speaker. These systems deliver superior, high-fidelity sound and stunning video to every room and are effortlessly managed with one touch. 

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An Extension of Your Home

Today, many families are extending their kitchen and entertainment areas right out the back door, creating a seamless transition between interior and exterior living. In these spaces, the lighting design reflects the home’s aesthetics, enhancing the sense of a home without boundaries.

Inspired Lighting 

Depending on the desired impression, our team incorporates varying design elements that make your space come alive at night. Some of the many possibilities include landscape lighting that looks like fireflies flickering through the shrubbery. A magical and mysterious mood is created with tree lights set high in branches, filtering soft lighting through the leaves and casting an aura of moonlight. 

Tiki torches poolside set a festive, tropical retreat mood, while bullet lights accentuate your home’s best architectural elements and highlight water features. Private gardens, sitting ponds, intimate seating, and meditation spaces are defined with soft illumination from an unseen source. Well-lighting accents trees, plants, and shrubs, while step, pathway, niche, and lip lights illuminate walkways, paths, and decking. The right lighting adds dimension, intrigue, and a safe passage for your guests.

Gain inspiration from some of our previous projects in our project gallery. The Parade home illustrates the seamless flow of entertainment spaces from the interior to the outside. Check out the Outdoor Oasis to envision how elegant lighting brings beauty to the night. 111 Cartwright Close exemplifies the elegance of fire features, steps, and uplighting.