One of the more common mistakes that new smart home enthusiasts run into is system over-lap, or cross compatibility. There are so many new and exciting products on the market today, and it is so easy to rush out and buy the latest and greatest product, without fully thinking through how this product will work with your existing smart home pur...

So, you're buying light bulbs, or specifying the lighting for a new home, and this term keeps popping up... CRI. What exactly is it, and why is it so important anyway? CRI stands for Color Rendering Index, and you simply cannot overstate how important CRI can be on the overall look of a space. Have you ever walked through the paint department of yo...

 Every decade or so, there is a new product that seems so extravagant and so un-necessary, that it is deemed a toy for the rich, or a play-thing of the super-techy. There was a time that a smart phone was a luxury. iPads and tablets were only for the bleeding edge tech crowd. Heck, there was even a time when automatic car windows were luxuriou...

Back when your entire home was lit with incandescent light bulbs, you probably took for granted a particular beautiful effect that comes naturally to incandescence.. The warm dimming effect. Essentially, when an incandescent bulb is dimmed, the filament of the bulb cools down. This cooling effect actually has a very pronounced impact on the quality...