12 Sep Smart Home, Smarter Design: How to Seamlessly Integrate Tech Into Custom Spaces

Smart home innovation is rapidly changing the way people in the Quad Cities, and all across the country, live, work, and go about their day-to-day lives. Do you want to know how to dress for your day or whether the kids need sweaters? Simply call out your query to your virtual assistant and receive an immediate answer. Are you out of layer than expected and need to put some lights on in your home? Refer to your app, and all is resolved. And those are simply a few of the most common ways we integrate smart home technology into our daily living. 

But, as much as smart home technology has made our lives easier, it isn’t always easily integrated into our home design. Until now, that is. With some careful planning and forward thinking, a smarter design can help you incorporate modern technology without undermining your aesthetic. Read on to find out more about how to seamlessly integrate your home technology into custom spaces. 

Voice Assistant Devices

These devices, Alexa, Google Nest, Apple Home, Bose Home, and Sonos One, to name a few, are made to be unobtrusive. And all the while, they streamline your control over music, TV, lighting, and many other elements in your home.

While these voice assistant devices are not. aesthetically disruptive, there are placement ideas that make them pretty much undetectable. Consider placing your smart home assistant device on a bookshelf, nestled among your other decor. Hide your device beneath a decorative cover or place it in the corner of an end table. These devices are amazingly sensitive, but wherever you place them, check to make sure your virtual smart home assistant can hear you. 

Smart Lighting

Today’s smart home lighting options merge energy-efficient usage with your personal ambience preferences. Spotlights, showcasing decor elements, safety lighting in your garage, or outside, color-changing mood lighting, kitchen lights, and outdoor spotlights can be synced to a set time or turned on at your request. You can even operate your lights from your phone or tablet half a world away. 

Intelligent HVAC

When you install a smart home thermostat, your custom home is automatically elevated to a smarter design. These technologically advanced thermostats are programmable to ensure you’re getting the most energy savings available. According to the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative, smart thermostats can save the average homeowner between 10%-12% on heating and as much as 15% on cooling. And your smart home thermostat alerts you when there is an issue with your HVAC, or when you need to replace the filter. Depending on the model of smart thermostat you choose, there are plenty of additional features. Your thermostat is generally easily integrated into the smarter design of your custom home. 

Savvy Home Security

The evolution of home security in the last decade has been nothing short of dazzling. Doorbell cameras, no-fail security systems that operate via wifi, cellular, or hard-wired backup, ensure you are never without your smart home security. Not only that, but today’s security systems detect potential flooding in your home, as well as the sound of breaking glass, and many other features.

Smart home security has components that are sleek enough to blend in with decor and unobtrusive enough not to be noticeable. 

Home Cameras

Inside and out, smart home cameras provide peace of mind whether you’re away or at home. And you can conceal today’s cameras in custom spaces. You can hide them from prying eyes indoors by placing them inside a custom bookcase or shelving unit. Home security cameras can be integrated into your lighting or custom-mounted into a window frame. 

Outdoors, your camera can become part of your landscape or be placed in your outdoor lighting fixtures. Work with your custom design expert at Seiffert Home Design and get creative with camera placement. 

Appliances

Smart home appliances are commonplace these days. There are apps for each appliance, and they are easily integrated into your central smart home hub. They typically are low-profile already, as they are often part of the operating system of your appliance. 

Concealing Your Devices and Cords

Media devices, TV, indoor and outdoor speakers, are already designed to blend with your decor or be hidden out of the way. To achieve a truly seamless integration into your custom space, consider the following.

• A wall-mounted TV, framed as a part of the decor. 
• A TV that transforms into an artwork when not in use.
• Speakers are placed on your wall and in your ceiling for excellence in sound quality and no clutter. 
• One of the biggest issues for Quad Cities homeowners who wish to seamlessly integrate their tech into their smart home design? Cords. When designing your smarter home, keep this in mind. You can run your TV wires inside the wall, conceal cords within drawers or shelves, and use kitchen islands. 
• Place outlets in areas where furniture conceals them. 

Smart Home, Smarter Design, Smartest Resource

When it comes to smart home design, there’s no better resource than Seiffert Home Design. We know cutting-edge smart home technology, and we know our Quad Cities neighbors. Meet with one of our design professionals, and we’ll help you find a smarter way to design your custom home or addition that seamlessly integrates tech for your daily life. Contact Seiffert Home Design today.