Living a Life of Luxury with Whole-Home Integration

The True Essence of Smart Home Living

Imagine walking into your Winnetka, IL, home at the end of a long day and saying, “Josh, I’m home. Let’s relax.” Immediately, you watch the lights transform around you, settling into the amber colors of a setting sun. You hear your “Chillin’” playlist stream through nearly invisible in-ceiling speakers, high-resolution music that reveals every note and impacts every emotion. 

The music follows you as you grab a cold drink and head to your outdoor area. There, beautiful landscape lights greet you, and the fire pit ignites. The music surrounds you, coming from satellite speakers that resemble landscape lights. You lower yourself into the preheated spa and stare up at the vast starlit sky. 

This glimpse into a life of luxury is brought to you by whole-home integration. It’s a smart home controlled by a home automation platform. Gone are the many remotes and apps that control your connected devices. Now, all your smart home systems work in tandem. Like falling dominoes, a chain reaction begins, creating the perfect environment for every event, time of day, and mood.

Let’s explore the possibilities.

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The Goal of Today’s Integrated Smart Home

At r:home, smart home integrators have 20-plus years of experience. As the leading Control4 dealer and smart home designer in the Chicagoland area, we’ve watched technology and the possibilities in intelligent home living transform. Today, your smart home can anticipate your desires and respond to your presence. Instead of separate smart devices living separate lives, they all communicate with your home automation platform and each other. 

Because Control4 works with tens of thousands of third-party devices, you can count on your system controlling virtually every connected device in your home. This translates to a customized smart home designed just for you and serving you in ways once unimaginable. 

A Smart Home in Action

In addition to voice commands, you can access your smart home via easy-to-use keypads, touchscreens, handheld remotes, and a mobile app. With one touch, you manage your lights, climate, shades, security, entertainment, pool, spa, gates, doors, and much more.

Whole-home automation scenes control multiple systems at one time, and automated scheduling sets the stage with no effort on your part. Your home readies itself for you before you wake, when you arrive home, entertain friends, watch a movie, and retire for the evening. It does this by setting the temperature, adjusting the lights to preset colors and intensities, turning on the desired entertainment device, raising or lowering the shades, and locking or unlocking the doors.

Today, the potential is truly limitless

Turn the TV on, and the lights automatically dim and the shades lower. When someone rings the doorbell, a video on the TV lets you know who's there. When you leave for the day, you tap the ’Away’ button, and the lights turn off, the climate adjusts, the doors lock, and the security arms. 

And we’ve barely scratched the surface of smart home living.

Are you ready to discuss the possibilities? At r:home, we’re committed to providing our clients with the personalized smart home of their dreams. To learn about whole-home integration or to schedule a complimentary consultation, contact r:home today.