Enhance Home Entertainment with a Custom Theater Unique to Your Home and Lifestyle

A home theater is the epitome of home entertainment. It brings the magic of the cinemas to your Anaheim Hills, CA, home. However, no two home theaters are the same, and it’s crucial for your system to match your needs. At Launch Systems, we work closely with our clients to craft a home theater design that uniquely suits their homes, lifestyle, and preferences. Keep reading to learn more about our home theater process and discover how we can help you create the theater of your dreams.

Hidden Technology Lets You Retain Your Home’s Beauty & Design

When you walk into your living room, would you rather see a classic Monet or your rather large 4K HDR TV? Do you enjoy watching your favorite shows in your bedroom before drifting off to sleep but want the peace and tranquility of a room without technology front and center?

While the latest home audio-video advancements have resulted in incredible images and sound, most of our clients want to retain their home’s beauty while incorporating this awe-inspiring technology. That’s where hidden TVs come in. Let's explore the numerous options and how homeowners in Irvine, CA, enjoy the benefits of multiple impressive TVs without disturbing their home’s aesthetics.

SET THE MOOD FOR EVERY ACTIVITY THROUGH THE POWER OF LIGHT

Lighting can transform any room in your home, taking it from a harsh and uninspired atmosphere to a warm and inviting retreat. It impacts the health and state of mind of those who live there, enhances productivity, and sets the mood for life’s varied activities.

LED lighting design offers these benefits and so much more. At Launch Systems, we partner with the industry leaders in LED lighting and home automation. Together, we create spaces of exceptional beauty with lighting that can be used like a painter’s palette and your home the canvas. 

Let’s explore the latest in this transformational lighting design and how it’s affecting homes and those that live there in Newport Beach, CA.

Discover the Beauty and Security of Landscape Lighting

After spending so much time on your home’s landscaping and implementing outdoor entertainment solutions, you don’t want to be able to only use your backyard or patio during the day. Once the sun sets and your outdoor space is dark, enjoying your outdoor haven becomes harder and more dangerous. But not with outdoor lighting!

Landscape lighting illuminates as much of the exterior as you want. It can light up paths, driveways, patios, and yards to ensure it remains usable in the dark. Plus, outdoor lights make your home safer and more secure by eliminating the dark spaces around your home. Keep reading to learn more about landscape lights and how they brighten your Laguna Beach, CA, home.

Make Brightening Your Home a Breeze with an Innovative Lighting System

A well-lit home provides a welcoming and cozy atmosphere for you, your family, and every guest that enters your living spaces. So, how can you effortlessly illuminate your Irvine, CA property with brightened fixtures to create just the right mood for any occasion? Bringing high-end lighting to your home doesn’t have to be a hassle.

Control4 Lighting offers an easy, one-touch control experience for your entire household. Keep reading below to learn the benefits of bringing this innovative lighting setup to your smart home today.

Create a Protected Outdoor Oasis with Convenience & UV Protection

Many of you have heard about the incredible benefits motorized shades offer. You no longer need to walk from room to room, pulling on cords to open or lower your window coverings. Instead, your smart home does it for you. With one tap on a user-friendly platform, you can raise or lower one or every shade in your home, all from the comfort of your couch. 

Today’s outdoor lifestyle, however, has created a whole new sector: outdoor motorized shades. Let’s explore the benefits and features and how it’s helping homeowners in Laguna Beach, CA, and beyond to extend their living spaces. 

Smart Lighting Design and Limitless Possibilities

Do you know one of the most important aspects of lighting design? Many people’s first thoughts are fixtures, placement, and providing enough light to perform daily tasks. After all, the right lighting in the kitchen ensures we don’t chop more than we intended, and a reading nook is only as good as the light that illuminates it. 

As a home automation integrator and lighting designer serving Irvine, CA, for over a decade, our team at Launch Systems has come to understand the one element that supersedes those essential components. Are you ready? The key to great lighting design lies in listening. 

It’s the personalization, the ability to set the lighting just right for whatever mood or activity you’re engaged in, that truly defines the best in illumination. And the only way to reach this level of personalization is to listen and get to know your lifestyle, needs, daily mundane tasks, and exciting once-in-awhile celebrations.

Let’s explore what happens when personalization takes precedence in lighting design.

How Lighting Can Impact Your Daily Health

Homeowners may be intrigued to learn how to enhance their wellness using intelligent lighting control systems. Circadian lighting, in particular, is a great way to bring natural health benefits into your home. In addition, homeowners can use the programmable elements of smart lighting controls to add unique wellness-inspired features to their home's design. By utilizing this technology, homeowners and their families can positively impact their health and well-being.

Continue reading to learn about the benefits of wellness lighting solutions like circadian lighting and how you can integrate them into your Huntington Beach, CA, home.

Unlock Unrivaled Sound with These Premium Audio Solutions

When you’re listening to a song or a movie soundtrack, you want to hear the audio the way it was intended, not a distorted reproduction. That’s why high-fidelity speakers are so important. Hi-fi speakers preserve the audio they reproduce, delivering a satisfying, crystal-clear sound that is as close to the original as possible. 

You can enhance the audio in your Laguna Beach, CA, home with premium hi-fi speakers from brands like James Loudspeaker. James Loudspeaker creates many types of speakers with a variety of applications. Keep reading to see how you can incorporate a hi-fi home audio system into your house!

How Motorized Shades Enhance Your Daily Living

Imagine resting peacefully, snuggled under the covers of your comfy bed, dreaming happy dreams. In your visions, you're walking along the beautiful, sandy shoreline as the sun begins its ascent over the horizon. The colors awakened by the rising sun are fantastical; bright orange, pink, and purple hues. Finally, you take a deep breath of the salty ocean air and smile, ready to face the day ahead.

Back in the reality of your bedroom, your motorized shades have slowly begun to rise with the early morning sun. As the dim light of the morning hits your face, you open your eyes and smile—what an excellent way to start the day with dreams turning into reality. You are indeed ready for the beginning of another fantastic day.

Sounds lovely. Continue reading about a day with motorized shades in your Newport Beach, CA, home.

Make the Most of Your Home Lighting With Ketra 

In today’s world, a home serves multiple purposes. It’s where you rest, eat, work, play, and entertain. Traditional lighting, with its limited settings, doesn’t suit all these needs. Luxury home lighting does more than illuminate a room—it transforms one into a welcoming, beautiful space that can adapt however you need. 

Ketra lighting has revolutionized home lighting with original technology designed to enhance home life with the power of light. Its beautiful array of colors and whites allows homeowners to adjust it however they need, plus it’s easy to control. Keep reading to see how luxury lighting design by Ketra supplements the beauty of your home in Irvine, CA.

Motorized Shades Make Life Easier in Huntington Beach

If you’re looking for the perfect way to add a “wow” factor to the interior of your home, then look no further than custom window treatments from Lutron. We love the wide variety of design options available—everything from roller shades to blinds and drapery systems. In addition, you’ll be impressed with the quiet sophistication and simplicity of automation.

Lutron motorized shades are an innovative home feature you never knew you needed. Continue reading to learn how you could benefit from custom window treatments in your Huntington Beach, CA, home.

Experience Elevated Living with a Control4 Automation System

The heart of any smart home is the automation platform. Smart home automation brings ease of control; by integrating all smart technology in your Laguna Beach, CA, home, it can be controlled from one central dashboard. For a truly seamless smart home experience, you’ll need to work with a professional automation company like Launch Systems. We are a certified Control4 dealer and integrate luxury automation technology into your home. Keep reading to learn how Control4 can elevate your lifestyle. 

Enjoy the Beauty of Architectural Lighting Fixtures

Adding an element of sophistication to your home doesn't have to include a complete remodel of your interior design. Instead, you can add details of sleek and modern interest to your home's style simply by introducing architectural lighting fixtures and layered lighting. With the right placement and finishes, luxury lighting solutions are an easy way to enhance your home's design and go from simplicity to sophistication.

Continue reading to learn more about the benefits of architectural lighting for your home in Newport Beach, CA.

Effortlessly Control Your California Home With Control4

Imagine being able to tune your lights to any color scheme you want. Or being able to see the status of your lights, shades, and locks with just a quick look. All of that and more is possible with Control4 smart home systems! Control4 offers various smart home technologies and can integrate tech from other brands into an easy-to-use system. With this seamless system, managing and checking the status of your home couldn’t be easier. Keep reading to discover some of the perks a Control4 system can bring to your home in Cote De Caza, CA.

Keep an Eye on Your Orange County Property from Anywhere – Home or Away

It’s always important to stay aware of your surroundings and not become complacent when it comes to security. No matter where you live, potential thieves look for opportunities wherever they may be. A home cloaked in darkness at midnight is an easier burglary target than one that is blanketed in protective landscape lighting. Visible security cameras and video doorbells also serve as deterrents to potential porch pirates.

To make protecting your home second nature, consider a security camera installation on your Newport Beach, CA property. Though it may seem like a daunting endeavor, it doesn’t need to be – let us help you! Keep reading below to learn how Launch Systems can implement a security solution that improves your peace of mind and protects those you care for the most.

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What Is It Like to Have a Smart Security System?

Imagine synchronizing lighting, shading, intrusion detection, surveillance cameras, door locks, and more into one comprehensive control platform. With the press of your finger on a customized wall keypad, you can orchestrate a smart response from all of these security devices, and from your smartphone, you can even tap into live security camera footage!

The “Goodnight” smart scene sets the following smart responses in motion: Shades lower to provide privacy, lights turn off in sleeping areas, locks and the alarm system are armed, and exterior landscape lighting illuminates your home for an additional layer of safety. If you believe you heard a ‘bump in the night,’ you can view the live security camera feed from the comfort of your bed to reassure yourself and go back to sleep.

Your Movie and TV Experience Just Got a Lot More Exciting!

As a professional Control4 dealer in Portland, OR, we expertly design and install smart systems every day. With smart lighting, shading, and more, incredible comfort and convenience are a mere button press away. We’ve written several blogs about our love for Control4 home automation solutions, and we will continue to do so because the brand continually offers innovative home control technology for every room of the house – from the kitchen to the media room to your outdoor spaces. Besides the staple high-performance audio and video components required for the ultimate personal home theater experience, there are two other aspects of smart home control you should consider. Scroll below to learn how effortless control and smart lighting can change the way you enjoy movies, TV shows, gaming, and sports!

SEE ALSO: Why You Should Have Control4 Automation In Your Home

Effortless Control

For just a moment, imagine what it would be like if you walked into your home theater and pressed the ‘Movie Night’ button on a sleek, aluminum-bodied remote with a touch screen. In mere seconds, automated shades lower to block out glare from the outdoors, smart lighting dims to illuminate pathways in and out of the room, your AV system cues up your Blu-ray player or Netflix, and your surround sound system prepares to immerse the family into the action of any TV show or film. It’s possible with a Control4 system powered by the Neeo remote. You could also initiate this same smart scene using voice control or your smart device of choice. Talk about a high-quality entertainment experience!  

Smart Lighting

Now consider lighting. Though we all enjoy watching movies and TV shows in the dark, the room still needs lighting incorporated to see what’s going on in the space once the credits roll. Lighting is integral, and a Control4 dealer can expertly integrate various lighting styles to make a stellar entertainment experience. Overhead lighting that dims or brightens at the press of a button makes it easy to transition from a tough day on the job into peak relaxation mode in the evening. Floor lighting can illuminate the path from comfortable recliners to the room’s exit so that it’s safe to acquire popcorn mid-movie without tripping.   If you’re ready to bring customized smart control to your Portland-area home theater or media room, chat with us at the bottom of your browser or call (949) 515-7030 to get started. You can schedule a no-obligation consultation and more when you contact Launch Systems today – we’re your local Control4 dealer. We look forward to working with you!

Here’s How Smart Surveillance Can Help Your Orange County Home

There are many reasons homeowners decide to invest in security cameras. Some folks can’t bear to leave their dogs home alone during the day. Others travel often and want to keep an eye on their property. If you’re deciding on a home surveillance system, there are many benefits and technology features to consider. We’re a security camera installation company based in Newport Beach, CA, and have installed systems across Orange County for the past decade. Read on to discover the many ways smart security will grant you peace of mind.

SEE ALSO: 3 Ways to Use Your Security System That You Hadn’t Thought of Yet  

How You’ll Use Security Cameras

You may be surprised by the numerous ways to use your surveillance cameras, including:

• Video Baby Monitor: Check on your child’s safety anytime from your phone or tablet, whether you’re in the backyard or on a date night, making sure everything goes smoothly with the sitter.
• Pet Cam: Going on a weekend trip and leaving the cat at home? Worried about the dogs while you’re at work? Two-way audio and video let you take a peek at your pets and communicate back to them.
• Wildlife Watch: If your cameras catch motion in the front or backyard, use your system to stay alert on any animals on the property.
• Smart Home Trigger: Sync your surveillance cameras smart lighting to activate lights on the front steps when cameras detect activity.
• Virtual Doorbell: Use your security cameras as a doorbell intercom to let mail carriers know they can drop packages off. Remotely unlock the door for the pet sitter or ask a stranger how you can help them.
• Keep an Eye on the Kids: Give your tweens and teenagers more freedom knowing security cameras have your back. Whether they walk home from school alone or spend afternoons with friends over, you know they’re safe.
• See Who’s Coming and Going: If many people pass through your home, including landscapers, babysitters, or house cleaners, you’ll know who’s entering and exiting.
• Deter Criminals: Of course, one of the most common reasons we install cameras is to prevent break-ins. Burglars are less likely to target homes with visible security cameras and will likely choose a more vulnerable house in the neighborhood.
• Recover Crime Footage: If something happens on your property, HD cameras will provide clear footage of the criminal’s face or license plate.

Camera Features to Look Out For

As you’re getting started, consider these points for the optimal camera system: