Create the Perfect Illumination with a Lighting Control System
What catches your eye when you walk into a luxury home? For many, it’s the natural elements—the travertine countertops, beautiful white oak flooring, and the dramatic views from the floor-to-ceiling glass walls. The filtered sunlight brings the outdoors in, creating a sense of relaxation and warmth. The corner reading nook is illuminated in a soft golden glow—light from an unseen source.
At Captivate, we view lighting as more than elegant fixtures that align with a home's décor. We consider it a defining element, setting the stage for every activity, highlighting your home’s best features, creating the desired mood, and providing a new level of luxury. We believe this element deserves more than light switches and dimmers.
Are you ready to experience the unparalleled ease of living and enjoyment today’s lighting control system offers your home in Austin, TX? Let’s explore the possibilities.
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Your Guide to the Best Sound From High-End Speakers
Investing in high-end speakers will help you create the ultimate sound experience in your Austin, TX, home. But it's important to note that even high-end speakers need a little tweaking and expert calibration to produce the perfect sound performance. Improving the sound quality may take some time and testing to reach your personal recipe for sound bliss, so that’s why having a professional on your side is critical.
To help you get started, here's a short guide of adjustments to make in order to get the best Hi-Fi listening experience.
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Your Media Room Design Checklist
A media room is an excellent addition to any luxury home. It is a unique space designated for various forms of entertainment – including watching sporting events, enjoying a movie, or socializing with friends. Much work goes into planning the perfect space; it's much more than selecting an ideal TV.
Planning how you would like to enjoy this space in your Austin, TX, home is the first checkbox on our media room design checklist. Continue reading for more items to consider when designing a functional home media space.
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Lighting Control Systems: Discover What’s Possible
It’s finally getting chilly here in the Austin area, and along with the cooler weather comes the end of daylight saving time. Shorter days and longer nights leave many of us feeling discombobulated and wondering where the heck our day goes since it’s already dark by the time the workday is over!
Luckily lighting control systems can help Texas homeowners take back their day with innovative technology. One tap of a button or a preset schedule can shift your home from a dark abyss once it hits 6pm into a relaxing oasis meant to help your body and mind ease into the nighttime.
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Benefit From a Life Full of Sound With Whole Home Audio
Did you know listening to music is good for your health? It’s true! Research shows that people who listen to music have less stress in their lives. In addition, listening to music can lower blood pressure, improve sleep quality and raise mental alertness. Not to mention, people who listen to music are generally happier.
Making music a part of your everyday life has many brain benefits and is one of the ways a whole home audio system can add value to your day. Continue reading for other reasons we love complete home audio systems and why you should consider one for your Austin, TX, area home.
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Add Vitality And Sophistication with Home Lighting Automation
Light is all around us, shaping our spaces, influencing perceptions, and creating a bond between sensual and everyday needs. Home lighting automation transforms your living spaces with ambiance, creating a mood and improving your well-being.
At Captivate, we are passionate about creating homes that give you the power to personalize your home and enhance your luxury lifestyle. Our sophisticated designs and technology integration allow you to transition lights through the day to inspire creativity or bring balance with a simple swipe.
Do the possibilities in your Austin, TX home intrigue you? Continue reading below to find out more.
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3 Reasons Our Team Loves Motorized Blinds
Automated shades, blinds, and drapes are some of the most flexible, convenient, and comfortable solutions someone can add to their Austin-area home. Want to discover why our team loves incorporating them into luxury homes throughout Central Texas? Keep scrolling to learn more!
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Can Your Home Network Handle Everything You Need It To?
Think, for a moment, about how many connected devices you have in your home. Market research shows the average American has approximately 16 internet/Wi-Fi dependent devices. According to CE Pro, the leading custom electronics publication, that number increases to nearly 50 when a home control system is introduced.
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Invite Your Friends Over For An Entertaining Outdoor Experience
It’s feeling hot! Hot! Hot!
Despite the heat, Texans love spending time outdoors. Just hand over some bug spray and sunscreen, set us by the pool with a cold drink, and there’s no doubt about it; we are sure to have a good time. Imagine what it would be like if you could elevate that good time to great, though.
It’s the perfect time of year to invite your friends to your Tarrytown property for fun in the sun or shade. Scroll below to learn what you can do with an upgraded outdoor entertainment setup!
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Pump Up Your Backyard Fun with Outdoor Speakers
Enjoying Texas BBQ while listening to local music is one of our favorite things to do outside this time of year - actually, let’s be honest … all year long!
We’re in the perfect location in the country to enjoy the great outdoors practically year-round, but there are more exciting ways to enjoy your outdoor spaces besides simply stepping out the back door. As the weather warms up, so should your entertainment. Learn how adding backyard speakers to your property in Hyde Park or the surrounding areas can dramatically transform your seasonal entertainment experience. Keep reading below!
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Why Should I Opt For an Outdoor Television?
Hanging out with friends and family in your Texas home is always fun, but it’s more fun to take the festivities outside to enjoy a little sunshine once it gets warm. While you’re out there, you can also take your entertainment up a notch with a high-performance and long-lasting outdoor television that’s rated to withstand whatever Mother Nature can toss at it.
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Keep the Music Playing with High-End Audio
If you live in Central Texas, you’ve undoubtedly heard of the local Austin music scene. It’s an area rich in local flavor ranging from the genres of jazz to punk and rock and everything in-between. Enjoying a night on the town at a local music venue or attending SXSW will undoubtedly leave you with a new favorite band or singer in no time.
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Experience Palladiom Motorized Shades From Lutron
You’ve heard the phrase, “eyes are the window to the soul.” We’d like to reword that phrase a bit and say, “windows lead to the soul of the home.” Your home is your sanctuary, providing a place to feel relaxed and safe with your family. In addition to supporting your mood and protecting your belongings, you should love the way your home looks, too!
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4 Ways Smart Lighting Control Changes Your Texas Home
For a grand aesthetic, the lighting in your Austin-area home requires more than a few standard light bulbs. Imagine having the exterior of your Barton Creek property bathed in illumination that showcases landscaping work and subtle architectural details of your home. Indoors, bright, cool-toned lights that keep you feeling energized midday gradually shift to a warm incandescent glow as the evening proceeds. All that’s required from you is a tap of a button!
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What’s It Like to Have Music in Every Room?
Walk into the living room of your Texas home at the end of a long workday and press the Play button on a wall keypad or your favorite smart device. Suddenly, your favorite audio begins playing through beautiful floor-standing loudspeakers at the front of the room. Then, as you decide to move to the kitchen to start preparing dinner, simply tap another button to send the song you’re listening to the in-ceiling speakers. The power of streaming playlists, vintage vinyl, and more are all at your fingertips.
Keep reading below to learn how your home in the Tarrytown area can sing with a multi-room audio system.
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What Did Ketra Do to Change the Lighting Industry?
Lighting can make or break the mood in any room of your Texas property. A romantic dinner under glaring fluorescent lighting, a TV with the reflection of a lamp ruining the picture, and a home office that’s too dim are just a few examples of what can happen when lighting is overlooked and isn’t considered an essential component of modern living.
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A Home Automation System Changes the Way You Live
One tap of your finger can control your entire home. Lower the garage door, heat up the hot tub, turn on the home theater display – you’ve got the power of your home at your fingertips! With a home automation system powered by Crestron, Captivate can customize the perfect technology solutions for your home in the West Lake Hills area.
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Enjoy Stylish, Sophisticated Lutron Lighting Control Systems
Technology doesn’t need to be boring or look like it was plucked from the latest science fiction film. Instead, technology can blend seamlessly into your existing décor and reflect your unique personality and stylistic preferences.
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3 Aspects to Consider in Your Media Room’s Design
How do you like to spend your downtime in your Austin-area home? Do you enjoy diving deep into the latest mystery bestseller while sipping tea, or do you prefer to hang out online with your friends on video game missions? Perhaps you’re a movie buff, or you like to binge a few episodes of a favorite streaming series to wind down after a long day at work.
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Motorized Shades Do More Than Save on Energy Costs
Gone are the days of parents hounding their children or reminding themselves to turn off the lights whenever they leave a room for the sake of not wanting to waste energy. Modern technologies have revolutionized the way we use lighting, window treatments, and climate control to reduce our electricity expenditure. This last year, especially, Texans have had to face that head-on with extreme weather conditions in both the winter and summer months.
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