4 Smart Home Features for a New Home Build

Customizing your dream home can feel overwhelming. You need to consider everything, like lights, thermostats, door locks, garage doors, and security; so why not make it a smart home?

Control your home even when away from a single, easy-to-use interface. With a small opening before drywall goes up, upgrading your new home into a smart home is always easier than doing it post-build.

Consider these four features when planning your new smart home.

1. Before you Begin: Networking

Home builders must consider a strong Wi-Fi network before looking at any products. A smart home is a connected home. If the network is not strong enough, your products will not talk to each other or work to the best of their ability, regardless of the brand.

Depending on the products needed, we usually recommend wired technology throughout the property to guarantee a stronger performance than wireless. Including Quinte Smart Homes in the home-building planning stages ensures we can tailor your network based on your floor plans and technology needs

Pre-wiring network cables and wiring within the walls of a house will also enhance aesthetics. Also, adding smart products as you go is always easier when you already have high speeds, reliability and consistent performance.

Create a network that can handle anything by ensuring strength and flexibility throughout your home.

2. Smart Home Lighting

Light has the power to enhance aesthetics and smart home lighting can be used in locations you may not consider during the building stages, like recessed lighting, in your closets, pantry or outdoor spaces for holiday lights.

Open-concept homes can be planned with modern wall keypads for clean light switches. From motion sensors to pre-planned schedules, smart lights have the power to ensure that each room has the proper plan for you and your lifestyle.

Also, smart lighting has come a long way in recent years with a growing trend in “human-centric lighting.” It mimics the sun’s exposure to help improve your quality of life, sleep and mood. These are based on light lumens and colour temperatures that move with you throughout the day 

Hiring Quinte Smart Homes to manage your electrical needs saves you and your home builder time and money. Build a modern home with fixtures pre-wired by a licensed electrician, so you have a complete smart home plan and design.

3. Shading and Comfort

Control your home’s privacy, UV rays and heat without the frustration of tangled corded blinds.

Clean hardwired shades can give the property privacy from the living room, kitchen, home office and bedroom. To save energy costs, program shades to open automatically when it is time to wake up, close when the room gets too warm, or when homeowners leave the property. Popular options include roller and honeycomb shades tailored to the size of the windows of the new home.

4. Whole-home Audio

Over 85 per cent of Control4 homeowners integrate music as part of their smart home experience. It is considered an asset when building a new smart home.

From music to podcasts and news streaming, audio can be incorporated into any room through the ceiling, wall or floor placements.

More than just a speaker, high-resolution audio can immerse a homeowner in a new level of satisfaction. From hosting guests in the living room and kitchen to a relaxing evening in the bathtub, integrated smart home audio has the power to change and enhance the atmosphere with discreet placements optimized for listening.

Installing audio placeholders during construction is more accessible than cutting the walls post-build. Whether you want a Dolby Atomos home theatre layout or the option to include one in the future, clean and pre-planned wiring and placeholders are mandatory for the perfect smart home audio experience.

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