Creating Elegant Visual Experiences in Luxury Homes

TVs and video displays continue to get ever larger. While they provide a wealth of entertainment, luxury homeowners don’t want them and the accompanying audio equipment to overwhelm a space. For technology integrators like Aurum Home Technology, the challenge lies in balancing technology with aesthetics—ensuring exceptional viewing experiences while maintaining design harmony. We take an engineering-oriented approach to display integration, developing comprehensive plans that specify exact placement, concealment mechanisms, and infrastructure requirements. Through detailed documentation and coordination with architects, designers, and millwork fabricators, we ensure your visual technology integrates seamlessly with your home's design, providing performance without compromise.

How Aurum Creates Integrated Home Audio Experiences

When building or renovating a luxury home, thoughtful audio planning ensures music and sound become integral to your living experience, not an afterthought. Whole-home audio systems require a balance of performance and aesthetics in everyday living areas. At Aurum Home Technology, we take an engineering-oriented approach to audio system design, developing comprehensive plans that specify exact speaker placements, wiring paths, and equipment requirements. Through detailed documentation and coordination with architects and designers, we ensure your audio system delivers exceptional sound while respecting your home's design integrity.

A Key Part of Technology Integration

Behind every seamlessly automated luxury home lies a carefully engineered equipment space (or several of them). These central technology rooms house the sophisticated systems that power your home's entertainment, lighting, and climate control. At Aurum Home Technology, we know that meticulously planned equipment spaces are the foundation of any well-designed smart home. Through careful engineering and detailed documentation, we ensure these critical spaces are designed for optimal performance, proper cooling, and future adaptability. Let's explore the essential considerations for planning technology equipment spaces in luxury mountain homes.

How Aurum Integrates Modern Lighting Control into Homes

The larger the home, the more lights there are. And with more lights comes more switches to manage them. With today’s smart technology and LED lighting, there’s a better way to control illumination in luxury homes. Modern lighting control has evolved into an elegant fusion of technology and design, where a single, sophisticated keypad can orchestrate lighting and shading throughout an entire room. At Aurum Home Technology, we take an engineering-focused approach to lighting control, carefully planning each system to enhance functionality and aesthetics. Through detailed documentation and thoughtful integration, we ensure your lighting control system provides intuitive operation while complementing your home's design. Let's explore the essential considerations for incorporating modern lighting control in luxury homes.

Modern Lighting Control Architecture

The foundation of modern lighting control lies in its centralized architecture. Unlike traditional homes, where each switch directly controls its electrical load, low-voltage keypad systems separate the control interface from the power switching. This allows us to consolidate all power switching into centralized panels, typically located in equipment rooms or dedicated electrical spaces.

This architecture dramatically reduces wall clutter by replacing multiple switches with elegant programmable keypads while providing unprecedented flexibility in control. Our detailed documentation specifies the low-voltage wiring requirements for each keypad location, and we work closely with electricians to coordinate power requirements and optimal control panel locations.

Design and Aesthetics

Lutron offers premium keypad collections with a broad range of sophisticated design options to complement any interior. From the sleek glass facades of Palladiom to the timeless metal finishes of Alisse, each style can be customized to match your home's aesthetic. Finish options include metals from aged brass to satin nickel, while button configurations adapt to each room's specific needs. For even further customizations, TruFig panels integrate the keypads within the wall finish for a sleeker, bespoke look. 

Keypad placement requires careful consideration of both functionality and design. We work with interior designers to ensure keypads integrate seamlessly with the overall home aesthetic while remaining intuitive to use. Collaborating with the vision of homeowners and designers, a single keypad can control multiple lighting zones and shades, maintaining clean sight lines and preserving wall space for artwork and furnishings.