SEE ALSO: Protect Your Fort Lauderdale Business with Commercial Outdoor Lighting  Multi-Room Audio  We worked with the property owner to create a welcoming and inspiring environment with audio distributed throughout the building, from common spaces to the lobby. We installed a building-wide audio system that can be remotely controlled to

SEE ALSO: Why Smart Lighting Control Is Perfect for Condo Common Areas  B&O’s Beosound Shape  Bang and Olufsen’s Beosound Shape (pictured above) is an excellent choice for any business owner with design on the mind. It disguises speakers into unique geometric shapes that enhance the room’s ambiance. The Beosound Shape’s connectivity h

SEE ALSO: Traveling? Control4 Automation Lets You Keep an Eye On Home  Built-In Color Control in OS 3.3.0  Control4 has unveiled its new operating system, OS 3.3.0. And inside the new interface, users can now enjoy a native color wheel that’s never before been built into a Control4 system.  In previous versions of Control4 OS, light

SEE ALSO: Have You Heard of Wi-Fi 6 Here’s Why It’s Superior Opportunity to Improve Safety and Security With 16 acres to oversee, the estate's management was concerned about a lack of security to protect their valuable horses. Additionally, keeping an eye on things while managing other aspects of the business was also proving to be a challenge. Th

SEE ALSO: Traveling? Control4 Automation Lets You Keep an Eye on Home  1. Upgrade to Control4’s OS 3.3.0  If you’re still running your Control4 smart home on the old OS 2 or the original OS 3 system, you’re missing out. Control4’s OS 3.3.0 offers exciting new features, like the native color selector wheel that allows you to slide and sel

SEE ALSO: 3 Powerful Benefits of Smart Home Lighting Control  Automate Lights to “Read the Room”  Control4’s smart lighting knows to change its appearance depending on the time of day. For instance, if you wake up in the middle of the night and walk down the hallway, motion-sensor lights will activate, but only bright enough to guide you

SEE ALSO: Monitor Your Horses’ Food & Water with an Equestrian Surveillance System Why Equestrian Properties Need Smart Lighting Equestrian centers can be as large as a forest, with riding fields and stables spanning tens of acres. Such vast spaces become incredibly dark after the sun sets, and you need an easy way to control or automate light

SEE ALSO: Control4 Updates Its Smart Lighting for 2023  Install a Smart Lighting System  Before you can control lights across the house, you need a centralized smart system. From hanging pendants to linear light strips, you can manage all fixtures with a smart system like Lutron, one of our preferred lighting control brands. You can even

SEE ALSO: 4 Tips to Make Your Outdoor Audio Sound Better  Quality, Durable Speakers  You can’t expect any old speakers to perform well on the ocean. The water, salt, and extreme temperatures can wreak havoc on audio technology, and if your audio gear isn’t built for the sea, it won’t last long.  Marine-grade speakers deliver extra-p

SEE ALSO: Customizable, Design-Oriented Audio by Bang & Olufsen  Seamless In-Ceiling Speakers  Even if you own a superyacht, you don’t want to clutter the space with bulky speakers across the cabin. Bang & Olufsen’s Celestial speakers (pictured above) are installed in-ceiling behind sleek speaker grilles, available in a variety o

SEE ALSO: 4 Tips to Make Outdoor Audio Sound Better   Yacht Lighting Control  This client already owned a Lutron lighting control system but wanted to switch to Control4 to manage lights alongside audio and other technologies. We installed Control4’s contemporary wall keypads to work with the Lutron HomeWorks framework. Customized b

SEE ALSO: 4 Spaces in Your Home Perfect for Lutron Smart Lighting  What Do Lutron’s Keypads Do?  Unlike regular light switches and dimmers, Lutron’s smart keypads don’t merely turn on the lights but can also adjust the light color, brightness, and activate motorized shades. Your Lutron dealer will program customized light settings like “

SEE ALSO: Take Your Florida Pool to the Next Level with Outdoor AV & Lighting  Best Portable Outdoor Speaker  There are many portable speakers on the market, but very few are actually weather-resistant. The Sonos Move is a truly weatherproof speaker that can play reliably throughout rain and extreme temperatures (all too common here

SEE ALSO: Outdoor Lighting That’s Both Functional & Beautiful  Highlight Your Home’s Best Features Your home has unique features that make it stand out, whether it’s the architecture, landscaping, or color scheme. Outdoor lighting can highlight these elements and make them even more stunning, a spectacle in the neighborhood.  For exa

SEE ALSO: Perfectly Blend Outdoor Entertainment Into Your Landscaping Design  What If I Cover My Indoor TV?  Is a special outdoor TV really necessary? Isn’t a regular flatscreen safe with a cabinet under your roofed patio or porch?  In short, no. It’s never safe to install an indoor TV outdoors. Even if your television is waterproof

SEE ALSO: Lutron Lighting Control’s Best Accessory: Luxury Wall Keypads  First, What Is the Circadian Rhythm?  Before electricity, human life revolved around the sun. When it was up, people worked. When the sun set, they rested. Light still influences our internal clocks, telling us when to feel awake, tired, and even hungry. That routin

SEE ALSO: Convenience Is Key: Discover the Ease of Lutron Lighting Control  Meet Ketra Linear Lighting  Designed to fit any space, Ketra's LS0 Lightbar Slim seamlessly integrates into various architectural elements and home furnishings. Its slim profile allows for discreet installation, ensuring that the focus remains on the beautiful il

SEE ALSO: Can I Use Tunable Lighting with Linear Lights? When Lighting Systems Go Wrong  We recently partnered with a client that had purchased a house with an existing LiteTouch system—that wasn’t working. Lights and keypads were unresponsive, and the controls were slow. When lighting systems are decades old, the technology can fail, and the

SEE ALSO: Customizable, Design-Oriented Audio by Bang & Olufsen  1. If Aesthetics Are a Primary Concern If you have an eye for design and believe that your audio equipment should not only sound great but also look great, then Bang & Olufsen has you covered. Bang & Olufsen has a long-standing reputation for its stunning craftsmansh

SEE ALSO: Customizable, Design-Oriented Audio by Bang & Olufsen  BeoLab 28 With its slender, tower-like design and wooden outer cover, the BeoLab 28 speaker effortlessly blends elegance with modernity. In terms of audio performance, the BeoLab 28 offers a rich and immersive experience and is equipped with Active Room Compensation technolo