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Ideas, advice and project stories on Lutron lighting, shading, cinema and connected homes, from the people who design and install them.
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Our first look at Savant’s Denver previews: browser-based Blueprint, AI-assisted design, host licensing and new touch controls—and what they could mean for your home.
Explore Savant at CEDIA 2026: Browser Blueprint, AI-assisted design and new controlsInsights
Inherited Lutron lighting? We can take over the system, resolve faults, refresh scenes and plan ongoing care.
Explore Inherited a Lutron System but Have No Installer or Programming File?Insights
How to separate a HomeWorks app or network connection issue from a lighting-control fault, without resetting a working system.
Explore Lutron App Offline but Wall Keypads Work? Where to StartInsights
Lights or a keypad playing up? Use these simple observations to help our engineer find the cause and get your Lutron system working well again.
Explore Lutron Keypad or Lights Not Working? What to Check SafelyInsights
Compare three UK Lutron lighting systems by project type, controls, upgrade path and budget before choosing equipment.
Explore Lutron RA2 Select vs RadioRA 3 vs HomeWorks: Which Fits Your Home?Insights
Explore a RadioRA 3 upgrade with clear advice on retained equipment, new controls and the improvements you want for your home.
Explore Upgrading RA2 Select or RadioRA 2 to RadioRA 3 in the UKInsights
Why a new home needs lighting and shading design before first fix: architectural intent, Lutron HomeWorks scenes, design-team coordination and careful commissioning.
Explore Lighting Design for a New Home: Why It Must Start Before First FixInsights
A practical guide to seating, screens, sound, joinery, lighting and the decisions to coordinate before first fix.
Explore Planning a cinema room: a guide for interior designersInsights
Planning motorised blinds for a London new build? Learn how Part O, external shading, wiring, pockets and ventilation should be coordinated early.
Explore Part O, Motorised Blinds & Shading for London New BuildsInsights
Sonos Amp Multi installation planning for up to four audio zones: speaker loads, cabling, rack space, network design, commissioning and support.
Explore Sonos Multi Amp, Custom installation DreamInsights
Plan home audio around the rooms you enjoy, with clear dialogue, useful music zones and speakers that suit the interior.
Explore Quality Sound at Home: Music, Dialogue and Discreet SpeakersInsights
Understand Heatmiser neoStat WiFi, neoHub systems and how heating controls can fit into a wider home-technology project.
Explore Heatmiser neoStat WiFi and Whole-Home Heating ControlInsights
A practical guide to selecting and testing lighting fittings for useful light, visual comfort and dependable dimming.
Explore Choosing Lighting Fittings for Visual ComfortInsights
Plan a welcoming room for films, games, sport and music, with comfortable seating, discreet equipment and simple controls.
Explore A Family Media Room You Will Use Every DayInsights
Choose useful camera views, clear playback and straightforward access, with installation and support planned around your home.
Explore Planning a Home Camera SystemInsights
Restore Lutron lighting, refine scenes and plan upgrades with a practical HomeWorks assessment and a clear route to ongoing care.
Explore Why Servicing Your Lutron System Keeps It EnjoyableInsights
Explore Lutron Palladiom Wire-Free blinds for finished homes: window surveys, fabrics, mounting, battery access and compatible controls before ordering.
Explore Lutron Palladiom Wire-Free Blinds for Existing HomesInsights
A practical introduction to KNX lighting, heating, shading and controls, with advice for new installations and existing-system takeovers.
Explore What Is KNX and What Can It Do for Your Home?Insights
Follow a Lutron project through consultation, lighting and shading design, installation, scene programming and ongoing care.
Explore Your Lutron Project: From First Ideas to Finished ScenesInsights
Explore the details that make Lutron appealing: dimming, keypad design, coordinated shading and room scenes shaped around daily life.
Explore What Makes Lutron Stand Out in a Home?Insights
How to specify, test and commission Lutron and DALI tunable-white lighting without vague wellbeing promises.
Explore Lutron and DALI Tunable White: A Planning GuideInsights
A practical guide to Lutron fabrics, privacy, glare control, window details and the controls that bring your shades into daily life.
Explore Choosing Lutron Motorised Blinds and ShadingInsights
Five practical foundations for a safer business network: ownership, secure configuration, updates, access control, monitoring and tested recovery.
Explore Business Network Security: 5 Practical FoundationsInsights
Explore lighting zones, daylight, flexible layouts and useful controls for offices, meeting rooms and shared commercial spaces.
Explore Corporate Lighting Design: Practical Ideas for WorkplacesInsights
Plan Savant heating and cooling integration with clear room zones, supported interfaces, useful scenes and a practical commissioning and handover plan.
Explore Integrating Heating and Air Conditioning with SavantInsights
Explore how Savant brings music, television, cinema and everyday room controls together in a home designed around you.
Explore Savant Audio and Video Control: A Room-by-Room GuideInsights
Choose a Lutron control by system compatibility, button layout, finish and room use. Compare Alisse, Palladiom, seeTouch and Pico with London Electricals.
Explore Lutron Keypads: Alisse, Palladiom, seeTouch and PicoInsights
Decide where home automation adds everyday value. Compare room priorities, installation scope, infrastructure, ongoing costs and support before investing.
Explore Is Home Automation Worth the Investment?Insights
A practical guide to using Lutron lighting scenes, schedules, shading and straightforward wall controls to make everyday routines more comfortable.
Explore How Automated Lighting Can Support Wellbeing at HomeInsights
See how coordinated lighting and motorised shades can make a home feel welcoming from the morning routine to the evening film.
Explore Lutron Lighting and Shading Through the DayInsights
Compare a dedicated cinema room with a flexible media room, including light, acoustics, seating, first fix, control and budget priorities.
Explore Cinema Room vs Media Room: Which Suits Your London Home?Insights
Clear calls, easy presentations and comfortable lighting: how we bring meeting-room technology together for your team.
Explore Boardroom and Meeting-Room AV DesignInsights
Plan useful, flexible Lutron Athena lighting across CAT A, CAT A+ and CAT B offices, from the first brief to the finished working space.
Explore Lutron Athena for CAT A, CAT A+ and CAT B Fit-OutsInsights
A look back at Savant da Vinci 10.5, with developments in music, scenes, lighting and room control, plus help keeping an existing Savant home running well.
Explore Savant da Vinci 10.5: a look at the updateInsights
Plan a reliable UniFi home network around coverage, cabling, equipment locations and support, with a practical brief for London homeowners and design teams.
Explore Planning a UniFi Home Wi-Fi Network: Layout, Cabling and SupportInsights
Plan your home cinema around the picture, sound, seating and budget you want, with design and installation brought into one complete proposal.
Explore Planning a Home Cinema: Scope, Design and BudgetInsights
Bring an older Lutron Illumination system forward with a planned QSX upgrade, refreshed controls and a clear route for the equipment already in your home.
Explore Upgrading Lutron Illumination to QSX: What to CheckInsights
Understand Savant cost drivers and plan a complete system around your rooms, priorities and budget.
Explore Savant System Costs: What a Proposal Should IncludeInsights
Savant’s da Vinci 10.4 release brought Apple Music into the Savant experience. Here is what that meant for music around the home and everyday room control.
Explore Savant da Vinci 10.4 and Apple Music integrationInsights
Bring new life to an existing Savant home with refreshed controls, carefully planned upgrades and ongoing support.
Explore Upgrading Your Savant SystemInsights
Compare Savant, Crestron Home and Control4 around the rooms, controls, integration and ongoing care you want for your home.
Explore Savant vs Crestron Home vs Control4: Choosing Your SystemInsights
Practical CPD on lighting, shading, hidden speakers and home technology, with ideas your design team can use on real projects.
Explore Technology CPD for Architects and Interior DesignersInsights
How Wisdom Audio line-source speakers shape the cinema experience, with room design, discreet installation and simple everyday control.
Explore Wisdom Audio Line-Source Speakers for Home CinemasInsights
What to look for in a Savant design and support team: relevant experience, clear planning, practical handover and ongoing care.
Explore Choosing a Savant Specialist for Your HomeInsights
A jargon-free guide to lighting-control circuits, scenes, keypads, sensors and proper commissioning.
Explore Lighting Control Explained: Scenes, Dimming and UseInsights
A look back at the Sonos Era 100 and Era 300 launch, what changed for music at home, and how we help plan a Sonos installation today.
Explore Sonos Era 100 and Era 300: the 2023 launchInsights
Clear AV drawings, schedules and coordination for technical design, from speakers and screens to networks and home-control interfaces.
Explore AV Consultancy at RIBA Stage 4Insights
A practical guide to specifying, commissioning and measuring a Lutron Athena commercial lighting-control system.
Explore Lutron Athena: Design, Energy Review and HandoverInsights
Explore AVB, Dante, AES50 and AES67, with a clear comparison of their uses and the connections that bring an audio system together.
Explore Comparing Audio Distribution Protocols: AVB, Dante, AES50 and AES67Insights
Share television and other sources across several screens with a coordinated video-over-IP, network and control design.
Explore Video over IP for Homes and Commercial SpacesInsights
A look at the original Radlett project brief: Lutron lighting, Orluna fittings, Savant entertainment and control, and a Ruckus network across three floors.
Explore A whole-home technology design for RadlettInsights
Plan useful care-home lighting, clear AV sound and familiar room controls, with resident input, specialist-system boundaries and a practical staff handover.
Explore Lighting, AV and Simple Controls for Care HomesInsights
An approachable introduction to Savant hosts, room controls and scenes for music, television, lighting and the wider home.
Explore What Is a Savant Control System? A Simple GuideInsights
Sonance Invisible Series brings music into beautifully finished rooms. We coordinate speaker positions, construction and tuning with your architect and interior designer.
Explore Invisible speakers for architectsInsights
Explore concealed projection, discreet speakers and lighting scenes for a media room that works beautifully throughout the day.
Explore A Living Room That Becomes a CinemaInsights
Practical lighting, shading and AV coordination for architects: clear drawings, discreet equipment and a home that is easy to use.
Explore Technology Design Support for ArchitectsInsights
Bring HomeWorks lighting and Sivoia QS shading into your interior design, with coordinated keypads, finishes, joinery and room scenes.
Explore Lutron HomeWorks and Sivoia QS: A Guide for Interior DesignersInsights
How building management systems bring heating, cooling and building controls together, with practical design and handover advice for UK projects.
Explore Building Management Systems: A Practical Guide for UK ProjectsInsights
Improve patchy Wi-Fi with a room-by-room network plan, well-positioned access points and careful setup for your home systems.
Explore Better Home Wi-Fi: Coverage, Cabling and Reliable ConnectionsInsights
LED lights flickering or dimming poorly? Learn what to record, why lamp, driver and control compatibility matters, and when to arrange an assessment.
Explore LED Lights Flickering? Dimmer and Lighting-Control ChecksInsights
Bring your Sonos speakers and home network together for reliable room-by-room music, with practical advice on Wi-Fi, Ethernet and SonosNet.
Explore Sonos Networking: Wi-Fi, Ethernet and PlanningInsights
Compare warm white lighting, 2700K and other colour temperatures, and see how we select fittings to complement your rooms and finishes.
Explore Choosing Colour Temperature for Your HomeInsights
Plan Sonos around your rooms, from everyday music to television sound, architectural speakers and a dependable home network.
Explore Sonos at Home: Music, TV Sound and Room-by-Room DesignInsights
Choose Orluna lighting around the colours, textures and activities in your home, with fittings and Lutron dimming designed together.
Explore Orluna Lighting: Colour, Beams and Beautiful RoomsInsights
Enjoy joined-up lighting, music, television and climate control, with an installation and support plan shaped around your home.
Explore Smart Home Control and Ongoing CareInsights
Discreet garden speakers, useful listening zones and simple control for music outside, designed with your planting and seating areas.
Explore Outdoor Audio for Gardens and TerracesInsights
Savant design, installation, upgrades and ongoing care, bringing music, cinema, lighting and controls into one considered home.
Explore Savant Installers for New and Existing HomesInsights
How early coordination brings lighting, controls, networking and AV into a Passivhaus project’s wider mechanical and electrical design.
Explore Passivhaus Projects: Coordinating M&E and Home TechnologyInsights
Refresh an existing Lutron home with new scenes, keypad choices, lighting improvements and a coordinated upgrade plan.
Explore Upgrading Your Home with Lutron HomeWorksInsights
See how a London home cinema moves from room brief and technical design through first fix, installation, calibration and handover.
Explore Home Cinema Installation in London: Design to CalibrationInsights
Explore Lutron Alisse finishes, engraving and room-by-room keypad planning, with HomeWorks design and installation support in London.
Explore Lutron Alisse Keypads for Super-Prime Residential InteriorsInsights
A personal approach to Lutron design, installation and aftercare, from the first room brief to the final lighting scenes.
Explore Why Choose London Electricals for Your Lutron Project?Insights
How a flush-mounted Sony OLED television was coordinated with joinery, Savant control, Lutron lighting and the wider home network.
Explore Flush-Mounted Sony OLED TV Installation in HighgateInsights
Plan a Wisdom Audio cinema around your room, with speaker design, calibration, lighting and interiors brought together.
Explore Wisdom Audio Home Cinema InstallationInsights
An archive record of GLO Audio Visual receiving a Savant Outstanding Performance Award in Amsterdam in 2019.
Explore Savant Outstanding Performance Award: Amsterdam 2019Insights
Ian Morrish’s original account of the Together For Cinema installation at Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice, delivered by GLO A/V and published by Mark Davis.
Explore GLO AV & Together For Cinema - Noahs Ark Childrens HospiceInsights
Keep the warmth you enjoy while improving your lighting with well-chosen LED fittings, beam control and smooth dimming.
Explore Upgrading Halogen Lighting to LEDInsights
Understand Lutron scenes, keypads, dimming and shading, and how we design the right lighting-control system for your home.
Explore What Is a Lutron Lighting System?Insights
Explore Lutron lighting costs, from wireless controls to a bespoke HomeWorks system, with equipment examples to help plan your home.
Explore Lutron Lighting Costs: RA2 Select, RadioRA 3 & HomeWorksInsights
Compare Rako and Lutron for your home: wiring, keypads, scenes, shading and complete installation costs, with a practical UK design approach.
Explore Rako vs Lutron: Choosing Lighting Control for Your HomeInsights
An archived note preserved from an earlier London Electricals website launch.
Explore London Electricals Website Launch: Archive NoteInsights
Explore wired and wireless Rako controls, room scenes and options for bringing an existing lighting installation up to date.
Explore What Is a Rako Lighting System?Insights
Get to know Lutron RA2 Select: wireless lighting controls, everyday scenes, app features and ways to develop an existing system.
Explore What Is Lutron RA2 Select? Uses, Limits and UpgradesInsights
A practical guide to coordinating electrical, lighting, network and audio-visual work under one clear project brief.
Explore Electrical and AV Coordination for London HomesInsights
Archived 2017 Canonbury project design notes covering KNX, DALI lighting and heating controls, with links to current KNX installation services.
Explore KNX Project Design Notes: Lighting & Heating in Canonbury (2017)Insights
Archived Highbury Hill cinema design notes: seven main channels, four height channels and two subwoofers, with the original equipment plan and later update link.
Explore Home Cinema Media Room - Highbury Hill N5Insights
Watch our original Welbeck House BPT Perla training video for a clear guide to the building’s call, porter and door-release controls.
Explore BPT Perla Intercom: Welbeck House Training VideoInsights
Plan a useful Rako service visit: understand your existing lighting, check lamp compatibility, refine room scenes and keep clear records for future support.
Explore Getting More from Your Existing Rako LightingInsights
From our 2016 archive: Rako’s forthcoming RAK8 modular dimmer and the compact design that caught our attention for future installations.
Explore Rako to Release the new RAK8 Motherboard Module Based DimmerInsights
The recorded design-stage scope for a coordinated electrical, Rako lighting, network, Savant and media-room project in Swiss Cottage NW6.
Explore Swiss Cottage NW6: Rako, AV and Electrical ScopeInsights
The recorded design brief for an integrated lighting, AV, heating and network installation in a Primrose Hill townhouse.
Explore Primrose Hill NW1: Integrated Lighting and AV Design
