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Appetizing Views - May 2008

“In such a designer space, Marguerite didn’t want to see a big honkin’ projector,” Wickham says. “For the screen, there’s a custom pocket designed into the ceiling, and we built it into the Lutron [Sivoia] shading.”

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Suite Sounds - May 2008

The owners of this Connecticut coastal home wanted to maintain their view of the outdoors with shades that silhouetted the water when closed. They also wanted a TV setup that would not get in the way of the view. The solution to the shading issue, as devised by systems contractor Innerspace Electronics, was 11 separate Lutron Sivoia QED motorized solar shades that would block the morning glare but not the light. The shades are controlled by a Crestron home automation system that is used throughout the house, and each shade can be controlled separately.

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TV Land - May 2008

As much as the family loves to watch what’s on the TVs indoors, they see plenty of the outdoors, too. The home sits on a bluff overlooking the Long Island Sound, and its architecture emphasizes the vistas. A Lutron Sivoia system provides motorized shading for 90 windows in the house, frequently working in tandem with a Crestron lighting system that covers about 145 zones that the family can command with the touchpanels.

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ecoEASY - May 2008

How green are this home’s electronics? An on-wall keypad from Control4 in the kitchen (right) allows the family to enact preprogrammed lighting scenes that bring only those lights needed for certain activities, such as dining or cleaning, and at preset dimming levels that also help to save energy. Lutron Sivoia QED (for Quiet Electronic Drive) shades automatically roll down from the slots in the ceiling (above) to keep the area cooler during the day. Even the 52-inch Sony 1080p LCD HDTV in the family room is Energy Star–rated for using less than 1 watt of power in its “off” state. It’s accompanied by Klipsch surround-sound speakers and an in-wall subwoofer (above, right corner).

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Home Entertainment - July/August 2006

Fortunately, Lutron Electronics has a solution. In the past couple of decades, Lutron has evolved from a maker of electronic dimmers into an automated lighting systems giant–but since 2001, it also has been offering ways to control natural lighting. Its Sivoia QED roller shade system, available in more fabrics and materials than a gypsy caravan, is an elegant and effective way to take total control over the light entering virtually any window in any home.

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House Beautiful - November 2006

The Lutron Sivoia QED electronic drive motor is so quiet that what you hear when your shade comes down is the sound of the cloth unrolling off the tube, not the motor. The other advantage, which is huge, is that it uses a low voltage electrical systerm much less cornplicated to wire than the line voltage system used by traditional non-quiet drive motors. And Lutron offers a range of fabrics, including mesh sunscreens and a new Iine of PVC-free fabrics. Or you can have a shade company like mine make sornething in the fabric you want.