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Lighting control is key to setting the mood and feeling of a room and is a fundamental aspect of all interior design. These systems allow you to create different scenes in a room that will either depict or create your mood - pools of light can create warmth and highlight features within your home, they can create a great party atmosphere and provide the right level of lighting for a professional office at home.

You can press a single button to make a lot come to life or conversely go to "bed":

• Press once to provide a pathway of light through your home or office when you enter the house.
• Press once for the holiday programme that will turn the lights on and off in realistic sequences over the course of each day. You will be perceived to be at home.
• Press once to turn on your home cinema, dim the lights and close the curtains/blinds
• Press once at the front door to switch all the lights off as you leave the house

This is not a finite list of what can be achieved with lighting control - there are many other options you can consider.

Protecting what is Precious 

Many people are choosing to improve their home security systems as part of overall improvements and protection of their home. This may be in response to a perceived increase in the threat of burglaries, or an increasing amount of valuables to protect - family and material items.

Intelligent, state of the art home security systems can provide an additional safeguard and peace of mind, as well as being seen as an important selling feature when moving home.

Home Security Facts:

• Government statistics show that 60% of attempted burglaries on homes fitted with a home security system are unsuccessful. Burglars are usually looking for easy targets and avoid breaking into homes with systems fitted.
• Insurance companies offer discounts on homes fitted with systems, as they produce a marked reduction in claims.

The request for music throughout the home is a major part of the home automation business. Gone are the days of limiting music to one room from your main music system or having an array of different systems of varying quality.

You can now play your favourite music throughout the house, move from room to room and listen to the same track at the same level and the same sound quality.

Alternatively if you have a family with differing tastes they can play their choice from the same central system.

In fact, as many sources as you wish - from hi-fi and satellite TV - can be accessed and run through to as many rooms as you imagine. Customers can also connect their sound system to the garden and swimming pool for barbecues and parties. Each room can have access to common sources such as Radio, CD or Sound Server.

Home Cinemas are increasing in popularity for the living room, loft conversion, garage conversion - practically anywhere in the home.

A professionally installed cinema (or Home Theatre; its alternative name) will give hours of fun for the whole family but, at the touch of a button, it can be made to disappear so that the room can revert to everyday use.

With the best home cinema installations it should be possible to totally lose yourself in a film and forget where you are. And the best home theatre screens can easily outperform the visual abilities of your local cinema, so why venture from the comfort of your home?