Route one · Wireless retrofit
For finished homes that don't want walls opened up. Wireless control that works with your existing wiring, on Lutron RA2 Select or Rako depending on scope and finish. Two-day installation in most homes.
Smart home & lighting · Lighting
Smart Lighting.
Whole-home lighting control on professional platforms, from wireless retrofit to architect-led design.
A professional lighting system is not the same as a house full of smart bulbs. It's scenes, dimming curves, daylight response, and circuits designed around how each room is used, running on platforms built to last fifteen years. Lutron RA2 Select for retrofit, Lutron HomeWorks for hardwired architectural projects, Rako and Control4 where they fit.
Lighting changes how a room behaves.
Most homes have one lighting setting: on. A professionally designed system gives you the levels you actually want. Bright for cooking, soft for dinner, low for film, off-but-not-dark for moving through the house at midnight. Scenes that match the hour. Layers that change with the season.
It's the single change that does the most to make a house feel finished.
Two routes in
Two routes in.
Smart lighting splits cleanly into two approaches, separated by whether your walls are open to be cabled. We do both, and we'll tell you honestly which fits your situation.
Route two · Architectural and wired
For new builds, major renovations and architect-led projects. Hard-wired control on Lutron HomeWorks or KNX, designed alongside your electrical drawings. Every circuit specified, every keypad placed for the way you actually use the room.
What's included.
Six things separate a designed lighting system from a house of smart bulbs.
01
Circuit design, not bulb swaps
Lighting split into layers and circuits that match how the room is used, decided before the electrician first fixes rather than after.
02
Scenes for the hour
Bright for cooking, soft for dinner, low for film. Programmed to the household rather than left as a slider.
03
Dimming that behaves
Proper dimming curves and driver matching, so low levels stay smooth and nothing flickers or buzzes at the bottom of the range.
04
Daylight response
Levels that follow the day and the season, so the house adjusts without anyone touching a keypad.
05
Keypads in the right place, in the right finish
Engraved labels, brass or brushed steel finishes, flush mounting. Keypads that look like part of the architecture, not bolted to it. Lutron and Rako both offer hundreds of finish combinations.
06
App control where it earns its place
App access from anywhere for the occasional override, but built around the keypads rather than depending on them. The system works when your phone is dead, the WiFi is down, or guests are staying.
Four common situations.
Most lighting projects sit in one of these four. The starting point determines whether wireless or wired is the right answer, and how much of the work coordinates with other trades.
- 01Finished home · retrofit
You've outgrown smart bulbs.
Twenty bulbs across the house, three apps, two voice assistants, and it still doesn't quite work. A Lutron RA2 Select system replaces the lot: wireless, no rewiring, fitted in two days, with the keypads sitting in the same boxes as your existing switches. Sized to grow, so adding a room in two years keeps the same platform.
- 02Extension · kitchen or floor
The kitchen project is the right moment.
A new kitchen or single-floor renovation creates the cleanest window for a properly designed lighting scheme, because the circuits are being decided anyway. The rest of the house can follow later on the same platform.
- 03New build · architect-led
The drawings are still open.
Hard-wired control designed alongside the electrical drawings, with every circuit specified and every keypad placed before first fix. This is where lighting control is cheapest and best, and where it is most often left too late.
- 04Whole-home upgrade
You want the whole house doing one thing.
Replacing a patchwork of dimmers, apps and switch banks with one coherent system, so the house behaves consistently from the front door to the top floor.
Investment.
Lighting scales with the number of circuits and the finish of the keypads rather than the size of the house alone. A wireless retrofit across the key rooms of a finished home starts around £3,000. Whole-home architectural schemes on Lutron HomeWorks run to £15,000 and beyond.
Smart lighting
£3,000 to £15,000
Including design, programming and installation
Every scheme is quoted from a circuit-by-circuit design. Wireless retrofits avoid rewiring costs entirely; architectural schemes are costed alongside the electrical package.
Showroom · Middlesbrough
See the difference between levels.
The showroom has a working Lutron system across several rooms, so you can run the scenes yourself and see what a designed dimming curve actually looks like. It is the one part of a smart home that is genuinely hard to describe and immediately obvious in person.
Demonstration rooms also in Yorkshire, London, Surrey, Hertfordshire and Hampshire.
Designed, programmed and supported by the same team.
Lighting is the most-used part of most smart homes, which is why the programming matters more than the hardware.
Platforms built to last
Lutron and Rako systems designed for a fifteen-year life, not a consumer product cycle. Parts and support stay available.
Programming, not presets
Scenes set to your household and adjusted after you've lived with them. The follow-up visit is where a lighting system actually gets good.
Coordinated with the trades
Circuit schedules issued to your electrician, keypad positions agreed with the interior designer, before anything is chased into a wall.
Platforms
- Lutron
- Rako
- Control4
- KNX
Lutron Trained · Control4 Certified
FAQ.
- Do I need to rewire for smart lighting?
- Usually not. Wireless systems such as Lutron RA2 Select and Rako work with your existing wiring, replacing the switches rather than the cabling, and fit into most finished homes in about two days. Rewiring only becomes the better option when walls are already open, and then hard-wired control on Lutron HomeWorks or KNX gives more circuits and finer control.
- What's wrong with smart bulbs?
- Nothing, at small scale. The problem is what happens at twenty of them: several apps, inconsistent dimming, bulbs that lose their settings when someone uses the wall switch, and no way to make the whole house do one thing. A professional system controls the circuit rather than the bulb, so any fitting works and the wall switch always behaves.
- How much does smart lighting cost in the UK?
- A wireless retrofit across the key rooms of a finished home starts around £3,000, including design, programming and installation. Whole-home architectural schemes on Lutron HomeWorks run to £15,000 and beyond, driven by the number of circuits and the keypad finishes rather than the size of the house alone.
- Can I keep my existing light fittings?
- In most cases yes. Because we control the circuit rather than the bulb, existing fittings usually stay. Where a fitting has a driver that dims badly, we'll say so and suggest a swap for that circuit rather than the whole house.
- Does it work if the internet goes down?
- Yes. The keypads and scenes run locally, so lighting keeps working with no internet and no phone. App access from outside the house is the part that needs a connection, and that is the override rather than the main way you use it.
Start with lighting.
Lighting is the easiest place to start and the hardest to un-see once it's done properly. Book a showroom visit to run the scenes yourself, or request a consultation and we'll design the scheme around your rooms.