Shades, lighting, climate, and voice — designed and programmed as a single system, not stitched together after the fact. Built around how you actually live in the house, and tuned by the people who installed it.
Most "smart homes" are a graveyard of apps — one for the shades, one for the lights, one for the thermostat, one for the speakers, and a fifth that promises to tie them together and rarely does. The result is a house that's harder to live in than the one it replaced.
A Motion Shading automation is the opposite. Every layer is specified, installed, and programmed by the same team, on a single platform, designed to behave as one quiet system. You don't think about the technology because the technology was thought about for you.
Each layer is a discipline in its own right. The art is in making them speak the same language — at the keypad, in a scene, by voice, on a schedule.
Interior, drapery, and exterior — coordinated on the same control plane as everything else.
Layered design and Lutron control — dimmers, keypads, scenes, tunable color temperature.
Thermostats, ceiling fans, fireplaces — joined to scenes and schedules, not their own islands.
Whole-home audio that wakes with the house and dims with the lights — never the other way around.
Josh.ai — natural language, local processing, a vocabulary tuned to your house and the people in it.
We chose Josh because we'd rather a voice assistant feel like a member of the household than a billboard for an ad business. It runs locally, listens only when asked, and learns the names you actually use for the rooms in your house.
"Movie night" doesn't have to mean a string of brittle commands. It means the shades come down, the cans dim to 8%, the cove brightens to 22%, the fireplace lights, the music drops to a hush, and the front-door notifications pause until intermission.
Programming is the part most installers skip. We don't. A Motion Shading automation is shaped by interviews, not assumptions — what time the kids leave, where the morning light hits, which rooms host dinner, when the house empties for school pickup.
Bedroom shades crack to 30%. Kitchen pendants come up to 40% on a 2700K warm white. Hall cans rise as your feet hit the runner. Coffee starts.
Astronomical timeclock plus solar sensor. South-facing rollers descend to 70% as the sun crests the roofline; cove lighting compensates for the lost daylight.
Dining pendants to 18%. Sconces to 35%. Drapery in the formal dining traverses closed. Music shifts to the dinner playlist at 22%. Garage notifications pause.
Living-room shades close. Cove dims to 6%. Cans to 0%. Fireplace lights. Surround comes up. The doorbell goes silent until the credits roll.
Every shade closes. Every interior light fades to off, except a 4% path from primary to nursery. Thermostat drops two degrees. Doors confirm locked. House holds its breath.
Josh.ai voice runs on hardware in your home. Your house doesn't ship a recording of dinner to a cloud microphone in Seattle.
Microphones listen for a single phrase. There is no always-on transcript and no advertising profile.
Lutron HomeWorks runs entirely on a local processor. Your scenes work whether the internet is up or down.
Account ownership stays with the homeowner. We support and tune the system; we don't gate access to it.
The right pathway depends on where the house is in its life. New construction lets us specify wiring, neutral conductors, and rough-in to the millimeter. A retrofit asks us to be cleverer with what's already in the walls.
We arrive at schematic design and stay through punch. Coordinated with the GC, the electrician, and the AV trade — one set of plans, one rough-in walk, one commissioning.
Most of our work is in finished houses. Lutron's wireless platforms and clean-installation methods mean we can specify, install, and program a whole-home system without opening drywall.
Bring a floor plan, a Pinterest board, or a frustrating set of apps. A consultation is the right first step whether the house is a year from breaking ground or fifty years old and freshly bought.
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