Smart Home Starter
A focused system in the rooms that matter most, designed to expand over time.
- Lighting and heating control in key rooms
- Single app and wall-mounted keypad
- Networking foundation built to expand
- Voice control and automated scenes
One system for your whole home: lighting, heating, blinds, audio, security and access, controlled from a single interface. Designed, installed and rescued across the UK.
Most smart homes aren't smart. They're a drawer full of apps that don't talk to each other. We design integrated systems where one interface controls everything, every system works together, and the technology disappears into the way you live.
The smart home industry sells devices. We design systems. A house full of individually smart devices (a smart thermostat here, smart bulbs there, a smart lock, a voice assistant) is still seven separate systems you manage with seven separate apps. More complicated than the house you started with, not less.
An integrated smart home works the other way. Lighting, heating, blinds, audio, security and access all run through one platform. One press of one button sets the whole house for the evening. The technology gets simpler to use as it gets more capable.
Some clients want the whole house automated. Others want one system, lighting or heating, done properly. Both are good places to start.
An integrated home where everything works together. Choose between two tiers: Smart Home Starter covers the rooms that matter most; Smart Home Premium covers every room, every system.
Lighting or heating done properly, as standalone services or as the start of a system you expand later. Nothing installed now gets wasted.
Two tiers. Start with key rooms and grow, or take on the full integration from day one.
A focused system in the rooms that matter most, designed to expand over time.
Whole-home automation: every room, every system, one interface. Built for new builds, major renovations, and high-end home automation projects.
Standalone services. Designed to expand into a full smart home later, without rework.
A designed control layer over architectural lighting: scenes that shift the mood, an automatic lighting system following the day, whole house lighting control from one keypad.
Multi-zone control: the right temperature in the right room at the right time, learning your routine, integrated with your existing boiler.
Smart homes that don't behave as promised, devices that won't talk to each other, older home automation systems that feel left behind. These aren't failures of technology. They're almost always failures of smart home integration or system design.
Most can be saved. Three scenarios bring most of our retrofit work; we recognise all three.
You've collected smart home devices over time: a Hive thermostat, Hue bulbs, Ring cameras, Sonos speakers. Each does its job. None of them act as one. We know which devices integrate cleanly into a professional platform, which need replacing, and which work best left alone.
Inconsistent scenes. Dropped connections. Automations firing at the wrong time. Problems like these almost always trace back to networking or programming, both fixable, neither obvious. We've taken on systems where the original installer had given up. Most can be saved.
A Control4 install from a decade ago. An older home automation system (Crestron, RTI, KNX) that needs extending, modernising or migrating. Most can be brought forward in place. We work across every major platform and will tell you honestly when extension is the wrong answer.
Every retrofit starts with a diagnostic visit, quoted separately and credited against the project if you go ahead.
Book a diagnostic visit →Add one at a time, or start with all six.
Platform-led, not device-led. The right platform depends on the home, the budget and the brief.
Anyone can buy smart devices. The value is in the system design, the integration and the support.
The difference between a smart home that works and one that frustrates is integration. We design the whole system to work as one, on professional platforms built for it.
Control4, Lutron, RTI and Ubiquiti certified. The programming is where most DIY and underqualified installs fail. Ours is done by trained engineers in-house.
Most smart home problems are network problems. A commercial-grade Ubiquiti foundation under every system, so the automation stays reliable.
A smart home is a system you live with for years. Aftercare, remote support, and a clean path to expand when you're ready.
Five stages, the same process whether you start with one specialism or a whole-home system.
A conversation about how you live and what frustrates you. Home, showroom or video call.
Written system design: platform, controls, networking, expansion path. RIBA-stage for architects.
Line-by-line proposal. Every component, every cost. No hidden extras.
Cabling, devices, networking, and the programming that matters most. In-house team handles all of it.
Walk-through, documentation, remote support, aftercare contract. Most clients stay with us for years.
The best way to understand what an integrated smart home feels like is to use one. Our showroom has working lighting, heating, audio and control systems you can operate yourself. Book a visit, or request a consultation for a new system, a single specialism, or rescuing the one you already have.