★Lighting and Shades · Certified Installer
Lutron. Light that follows the sun.
Lutron is the lighting layer of every serious smart home. HomeWorks runs the wires, the keypads, and the shades. Ketra fixtures shift the spectrum from warm dawn to cool noon to amber sunset, on a schedule, without anyone touching a switch.
Why Lutron
The lighting layer the industry already chose.
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Reference-grade dimming
1000:1 dimming range with no flicker, no color shift, no audible buzz — from full output down to a candlelight ember. Builder-grade dimmers manage a fraction of that. The difference is visible on day one.
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Ketra full-spectrum LED
Every Ketra fixture can render any color temperature from 1400K to 10000K plus tinted shades. Circadian programming follows the sun automatically. Dimmable to 0.1% — past the point where most LEDs flicker or wash blue.
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Pico keypad ergonomics
Engraved-button keypads designed to be touched a hundred times a day. Mechanical-grade actuation. Backlit when the room is dark. The single most-used physical interface in a smart home — Lutron has refined them across forty years.
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Sixty-year family company
Founded 1961 in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania. Still family-owned. Manufactures in Pennsylvania. Warranty terms among the longest in the category.
Circadian lighting (Ketra)
Light that knows the time of day.
Ketra fixtures track an astronomical clock — warm amber at dawn (~2200K), bright cool daylight at noon (~5000K), golden hour at sunset (~2700K), dim amber after sunset (~1800K). Programmed once. Works forever. Your body recognizes the time of day from the light without you thinking about it.
Scene-based control
One button. Every fixture, perfectly tuned.
Every keypad button fires a scene Daniel designed for your family. Movie: living-room down to 12%, hall down to 5%, TV wall to 0%. Dinner: kitchen down to 35%, dining at 60%, foyer warm at 25%. Goodnight: house to bedside lamps only, then off after fifteen minutes.
Motorized shades
Shades that move on the sun.
Lutron Sivoia QS Roman and roller shades — Palladiom rollers in the premium rooms — on the same HomeWorks system as the lighting. Astronomical clock closes them at dusk. Geofencing opens them when you cross 95th Street home. Sun-tracking algorithms hold them at the right position to keep the room cool without losing the view.
Whole-home lighting control
Every dimmer in the house, in lockstep.
Every dimmer in the house on one Lutron HomeWorks system. Wired panels in the equipment closet, Pico keypads in the rooms. No closet bedrooms switching at the wall plate; every light is a Lutron load. The result is uniformity that you feel — every dimmer feels the same, every scene is the same speed, every fade is the same curve.
A sixty-year investment
Why Lutron is still standing at year fifteen.
Three reasons Lutron outlasts everything else in the lighting category:
Family company, not a private-equity portfolio.
Lutron has been owned by the Spira family since 1961. No corporate parent rotates the engineering team. No product line gets killed because it doesn't fit the quarterly. Legacy Sivoia QED shades from the 2000s still have a factory upgrade path onto the current Sivoia QS drives.
Mechanical-grade hardware.
A Pico keypad in a kitchen gets pressed dozens of times a day, every day, for years. Lutron rates them for far more presses than a household will ever reach. The hardware lasts because the engineering target is decades of household use.
Industry-standard credentialing.
Lutron Certified Installers (like IntegrateIT) get the same training pipeline every year. A homeowner moving from one Certified Installer to another can pick up the project file and continue. The home is not locked to one technician.
Best for
Where Lutron belongs.
Any home where light is a design conversation
If your architect or interior designer is specifying fixtures by name, Lutron belongs underneath.
Whole-home automation projects
Lutron HomeWorks underneath, Control4 or Crestron on top. The most common architecture in luxury residential AV for a reason — each platform does what it does best.
Wellness-focused builds
Circadian-tracked lighting genuinely affects sleep, mood and energy. The Ketra spectrum and astronomical-clock combination is the most direct way we know to deliver true circadian lighting in a home.
Recent installs
Lutron in Kansas City homes.
Light is the most-touched system in a house. Forty times a day, every day, for thirty years. Get it right and you stop noticing it; the home just feels good at every time of day. Get it wrong and the family fights with the dimmer at the front door every night. Lutron is the platform I trust to get this right.
— Daniel Alon · Founder · IntegrateIT
Common questions
What is Lutron HomeWorks?
HomeWorks is Lutron's flagship residential lighting and shade control platform. A wired processor in the equipment closet, dedicated lighting circuits in the panel, Pico-style keypads where you actually touch the system, motorized shades where you want them. Compatible with every major automation platform (Control4, Crestron, Savant) and can run standalone if the project doesn't need broader integration.
What is Lutron Ketra?
Ketra is Lutron's full-spectrum tunable-white LED line. Every fixture can shift across the full Kelvin range (1400K candlelight to 10000K cool daylight) plus tinted colors when you want them, on a schedule. The killer use case is circadian rhythm — light that wakes up warm at dawn, shifts cool through the workday, and warms back at sunset, without you ever touching a switch. Ketra fixtures are also dimmable to 0.1% — past the point where most LEDs flicker or shift color.
How much does a Lutron system cost?
Priced from the zone count and the keypads, plus shades and Ketra fixtures if they join. Lutron is the premium choice in lighting and the hardware reflects that; what moves the number most is how many circuits and windows the system reaches. Daniel walks the house at no cost and gives a fixed number.
Why does Lutron cost more than the lighting in a builder-grade home?
Three reasons. (1) Dimming quality: Lutron dimmers handle a 1000:1 range without flicker, color shift, or audible buzz. Builder-grade dimmers manage a fraction of that and get worse as the bulbs age. (2) Hardware lifespan: HomeWorks panels run for decades; Pico keypads are mechanical-grade. (3) Customization: every keypad button does what your family asked it to do — Movie, Dinner, Goodnight, Welcome — programmed by your installer.
Should I use Lutron underneath Control4 or Crestron?
For any project where lighting matters (which is most of the homes we work in): yes. Lutron HomeWorks handles the lighting and shade layer; Control4 or Crestron sits above it as the unified UI. This stack gives you Lutron's lighting refinement plus Control4 / Crestron's whole-home orchestration. It's the most-installed architecture in luxury residential AV in the US.
What is a Lutron Certified Installer?
Lutron grades dealers by certification level — Basic, Specialist, Certified, Diamond. Certified Installers complete advanced training in HomeWorks programming, commissioning, and Ketra spectrum design. IntegrateIT is a Lutron Certified Installer. The credential matters because Lutron lighting is meaningfully harder to design than it looks; bad keypad engraving, bad scene grouping and bad fixture selection turn a beautiful system into a headache.
How long does a Lutron install take?
New construction: 6-12 weeks paced with the lighting-rough-in and trim phases. Daniel walks the lighting plan with the architect or designer before drywall, then commissions after trim. Retrofit installs in finished homes: 2-5 weeks depending on whether the project is full-HomeWorks (rewire required) or RadioRA 3 (wireless, much faster).
Is Lutron the right choice for my home?
If the lighting plan has more than a handful of circuits, or the house has shades, yes — Lutron underneath and Control4 or Crestron on top is the architecture we install most. If the project is a single room, RadioRA 3 alone may be enough. Twenty minutes by phone is usually enough to tell.
See Lutron Ketra working before you commit.
Lutron is one of those systems that has to be seen, not described. Daniel walks every prospective lighting client through a finished Ketra install in the Kansas City metro before any proposal is signed. You watch the lighting shift through a full day in twenty minutes. Then you decide.