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Smart Lighting & Home Automation Lighting Control
Transform your home with professional smart home automation lighting control designed around your space and lifestyle. Our team designs and installs customized automated lighting systems that provide intuitive control over individual fixtures, entire rooms, or your whole home. Integrate lighting with motorized shades and other smart home technology to create personalized scenes, schedules, and effortless everyday control. Serving homeowners throughout Annapolis, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, and surrounding areas.
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Lutron Lighting Control
As a Lutron Gold Star Dealer, we design and install advanced Lutron lighting control systems tailored to your home. Create custom lighting scenes, automate schedules, control lights from keypads, apps, or voice commands, and enjoy greater comfort, convenience, energy efficiency, and security throughout your space.
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Professional Smart Lighting Installation
Automated Lighting Designed for Your Home
Performance Home Automation provides professional smart lighting installation for new construction, renovations, and existing homes. Our lighting control installers coordinate fixtures, dimmers, keypads, sensors, programming, and compatible home automation technology to create one intuitive system.
An automated lighting system can provide centralized control of individual fixtures, entire rooms, outdoor areas, or the whole property. Customized scenes and schedules make it easy to prepare your home for mornings, entertaining, relaxing, bedtime, travel, and other everyday activities.
From initial lighting design and equipment selection through installation, programming, testing, and support, every system is customized around the property and the homeowner’s needs.
Why Work With a Lighting Designer?
Expert Lighting Design
Our lighting specialists have the experience and expertise to create customized lighting plans that enhance the beauty, functionality, and comfort of your home. Every design is tailored to your space, lifestyle, and goals.
Personalized Smart Lighting Solutions
No two homes are alike. We design custom smart lighting systems that complement your architecture, highlight key features, and provide the perfect balance of ambiance, convenience, and performance.
Energy Efficiency & Smart Control
Modern lighting systems use energy-efficient LED technology and intelligent automation to reduce energy consumption while providing exceptional illumination. Control your lights from anywhere using smart home integration and custom schedules.
Safety, Security & Peace of Mind
Strategically placed lighting improves visibility around walkways, driveways, entryways, and outdoor living areas. A professionally designed lighting system enhances both safety and security while making your property more inviting.
Increased Home Value
Professional lighting design adds curb appeal, highlights architectural details, and creates memorable outdoor and indoor experiences. A well-designed lighting system can enhance your property's beauty, functionality, and long-term value.
Professional Lighting Designer
Custom Lighting Design for Your Home
Work with an experienced lighting designer to create a lighting plan that enhances the architecture, functionality, and atmosphere of your home. Performance Home Automation provides professional lighting design services for new construction, custom homes, renovations, and existing residences, carefully considering fixture placement, light levels, color temperature, dimming, and control.
Our lighting designers develop customized solutions around your home's architecture and the way each space will be used, creating comfortable, visually balanced environments with intuitive control.
Lighting Design for New Construction & Custom Homes
Plan Your Lighting Before Construction Is Complete
Building a new home is the ideal time to involve a professional lighting designer. Our team works with homeowners, architects, interior designers, builders, and electricians to develop a comprehensive lighting plan for new homes before fixtures, wiring, and controls are finalized.
From architectural lighting and fixture placement to automated lighting control and customized scenes, thoughtful lighting design for custom homes helps ensure lighting is incorporated into the architecture from the beginning rather than treated as an afterthought.
Lighting Design Consultation
Expert Guidance for Every Space
Our lighting design consultations help determine the right lighting layout, fixture placement, control strategy, and overall approach for your project. Whether you're designing an entire custom home or improving the lighting in an existing property, our team develops solutions around the architecture, interior design, and functional needs of each space.
Performance Home Automation provides professional lighting design throughout Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, and surrounding communities.
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Professional Lighting Design & Smart Lighting Expertise
If you're searching for a lighting designer near you, Performance Home Automation provides customized lighting design and control solutions for residential projects throughout our service area. From initial consultation and lighting layouts for custom homes to lighting control and final system integration, our team helps create cohesive lighting environments designed around your home and lifestyle.
Architectural Lighting Design
Highlighting the Features of Your Home
Architectural lighting design uses carefully placed illumination to support the architecture, interior design, and function of each space. Our residential lighting designers consider fixture placement, beam angles, brightness, color temperature, dimming, finishes, and control when developing a complete lighting plan.
Thoughtfully designed architectural lighting can highlight artwork, cabinetry, ceilings, textured surfaces, exterior details, and other defining features while providing comfortable illumination for everyday activities.
Understanding Light Layering
Accent lighting draws attention to your home's most distinctive features. By highlighting artwork, architectural details, textured walls, and decorative elements, accent lighting adds depth, visual interest, and a sophisticated finishing touch to any space.
Task
Task lighting delivers focused illumination where you need it most. From under-cabinet kitchen lighting and desk lamps to vanity and pendant lighting, task lighting improves visibility, reduces eye strain, and enhances everyday functionality.
Accent
Ambient lighting serves as the foundation of your lighting design, providing balanced illumination throughout a space. Whether through recessed lights, chandeliers, or ceiling fixtures, it creates a comfortable atmosphere while enhancing the beauty and functionality of your home.
Ambient
Picking Your Color Temperature
Selecting the right color temperature is an important part of lighting design. Warm lighting (2700K–3000K) creates a comfortable, inviting atmosphere that is ideal for living rooms, bedrooms, and entertaining spaces. Cooler lighting (4000K–5000K) provides brighter, more focused illumination, making it well-suited for kitchens, offices, and task-oriented areas. By choosing the proper color temperature for each room, you can improve comfort, functionality, and the overall ambiance of your home.
Smart Lighting Control Systems in Annapolis, MD
Energy Efficiency/Savings
Motion-Based Automation
Motion sensors automatically turn lights on and off in frequently used spaces, reducing energy waste and improving convenience.Daylight Harvesting
Smart lighting systems adjust brightness based on available natural light, maximizing efficiency and reducing unnecessary energy use.Automated Schedules
Create custom lighting schedules that align with your daily routine, helping reduce energy consumption while enhancing comfort and convenience.
Convenience & Customization
Smart Control
Control your lights from anywhere using a smartphone, keypad, or voice assistant for effortless convenience.Custom Lighting Scenes
Create personalized lighting scenes for entertaining, relaxing, dining, or movie nights with a single touch.Vacation Mode
Automatically vary lighting schedules while you're away to make your home appear occupied and enhance security.
Security & Safety
Motion-Activated Lighting
Outdoor lights automatically illuminate when motion is detected, improving visibility and helping deter unwanted visitors.Pathway & Night Lighting
Low-level lighting activates when needed, making it safer to navigate hallways, stairways, and walkways after dark.Enhanced Home Security
Automated schedules and smart lighting controls can make your home appear occupied while you're away, adding an extra layer of security.
Human-Centric Lighting
Experience lighting that works in harmony with your body's natural rhythm. By automatically adjusting color temperature throughout the day, human-centric lighting enhances comfort, supports wellness, improves focus, and creates a more natural living environment.
Controlling Natural Light
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Roman Shades
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Performance Home Automation provides professional residential lighting design throughout Annapolis, Baltimore, Washington, DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Our team designs lighting plans for new construction, renovations, custom homes, and existing residences.
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An automated lighting system allows individual fixtures, rooms, or an entire property to be controlled through keypads, mobile devices, schedules, sensors, customized scenes, and compatible home automation systems.
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A lighting control installer helps design, install, program, test, and support the equipment that controls a property’s lighting. This can include dimmers, keypads, sensors, processors, automated schedules, customized scenes, and smart-home integration.
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Yes. Smart lighting can be incorporated into existing homes as well as renovations and new construction. The appropriate system depends on the property’s wiring, fixtures, desired features, and level of automation.
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Lighting design should begin before fixtures, wiring, controls, and ceiling plans are finalized. Early planning allows the lighting designer, homeowner, architect, builder, interior designer, and electrician to coordinate the system with the architecture.
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Yes. Performance Home Automation is a Lutron Gold Star Dealer that designs and installs Lutron lighting control, keypads, automated scenes, and motorized shading solutions.
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Compatible lighting systems can be integrated with Control4, allowing homeowners to coordinate lighting with motorized shades, audio, video, climate, security, and other smart-home technologies.
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