MUSKOKA Lighting Control & Systems
Well-designed smart lighting adds style and sophistication, convenience, and energy efficiency to your home or cottage property.
This complete approach, from helping evaluate the right system and hardware right through to installation and training, helps to set everyone’s expectations and ensures that our clients get what they want and need. Very few can match our expertise for designing and installing home lighting systems. Combining our extensive lighting system design and installation work with our custom residential electrical experience, we work closely with our clients in bringing their lighting control and automation ideas to life while maintaining a strong long-term support strategy.
LIGHTING CONTROL BRINGS CONVENIENCE TO MUSKOKA LIFESTYLES
Our Muskoka cottage and residential clients enjoy the convenience of adjusting their lighting from the comfort of any room in their home or cottage, or even remotely. Imagine this scenario: You have just arrived at the cottage late on a Friday night, and your arms are heavily loaded with groceries. As you walk through the door, you deliver a voice command. In that instant, you light your route to the kitchen with your voice.
When you leave the cottage to head out for the day, with a single press of a button or voice command, you know that all the lights in the cottage (including the ones that your better half left on in the boat house) are turned off.
Pre-programmed “scenes,” designed to remember your personal preferences concerning which lights should be on or off, and their dimming levels, can be engaged at the touch of a button from your phone or tablet, the system panel, or through voice control.
Bringing the same level of convenience to Muskoka’s great outdoors, a lighting control system by McNair can also turn lights on and off automatically based on the time of day/night or at a predetermined time. For example, your cottage’s exterior garden and landscape lighting can be set to come on at dusk and switch off at dawn.
Lighting control is like a custom-fitted piece of clothing: each client may have a different fit for their specific property. With over 10 years of experience programming and designing systems for our clients, we have a well-rounded view of the products that are available, their suitability for any given project, and best practices for their installation relative to their environments. We first discuss your ideas, your lifestyle, the technologies available and your budget criteria before presenting you with recommendations and options. Once the project plan is finalized, our team of expert installers brings your system to life—because not only are we home technology specialists, we are also licensed electricians.
MUSKOKA ENERGY EFFICIENCY
WITH LIGHTING CONTROL
We believe that investing in a lighting control system for your Muskoka property is a smart way to save money. When we dim lights that would otherwise only switch on to full brightness, we can save significant amounts on our electrical bill. For example, dimming your lights to 90% is barely noticeable but reduces your electricity cost by 10%. Furthermore, dimming will double the lifespan of your light bulbs. Finally, by using programmed environments, a smart lighting control system reduces the possibility of lights being left on in rooms or areas of your Muskoka property that are not being used.
SECURITY & SAFETY WITH MUSKOKA
LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEMS
Your investment in a lighting system for your Muskoka home or cottage will provide peace of mind to you and everyone in your family. Well-designed lighting is essential to Muskoka home and cottage security and safety. Programmed scenes can properly illuminate indoor and outdoor pathways, so you never have to enter or exit a dark home. Many of our Muskoka clients look to integrate their lighting control systems with their security system to allow lighting to be activated in the event that an alarm is triggered. The system specialists at McNair can also program a “vacation” scene into your cottage or home lighting system which creates the appearance of random human activity within your home or cottage even though you may be miles away.
LUTRON, VANTAGE & CONTROL 4
LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEMS IN MUSKOKA
Here at McNair, we regularly recommend the installation of lighting control solutions from Lutron, Vantage Controls, and Control 4. Each operating system offers our clients a wide range of industry-leading features and functions but some systems are better suited than others to particular environments or specific client needs.
LIGHTING CONTROLS FOR MUSKOKA’S NEW CONSTRUCTION VS. EXISTING HOME OR COTTAGE RETROFITS
Not so many years ago, installing a sophisticated lighting control system in Muskoka was really only practical during the construction phase of a project because of all the specialized wiring required. But today, every residence can be readily retrofitted with a number of available wireless solutions. New wireless technologies are extremely sophisticated but designed and installed in such a way that they are incredibly easy to use. And most times when retrofitting a lighting solution, you can start small and expand one component at a time.
INTERESTED IN HOME AND COTTAGE LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEMS?
If you want to discuss your upcoming lighting control project, please call or use the contact form below.
Allow us the opportunity to demonstrate a luxury worth having. A great Muskoka lighting control system will substantially enhance your lifestyle ― guaranteed.