Smart lighting, motorised blinds, integrated AV, networking and Wi-Fi, cameras and intercoms — designed by sparkies who actually live with the systems they install.
A smart home should make daily life quieter and easier — one tap turns off the house at bedtime, the front door unlocks for the kids when school finishes, the AV system comes on for movie night without four remotes. It shouldn't need a 200-page manual or a maintenance contract.
We design smart-home systems around the way the household actually lives. We ask the right questions early: who's in the house, what time do you go to bed, who answers the door, do you watch TV in two rooms or one? Then we spec to those answers — not a feature checklist.
Cabling matters. Wireless is great until the Wi-Fi has a bad day; we run wired backbone where the system needs reliability (lighting buses, AV runs, camera feeds) and use mesh-Wi-Fi where wireless makes sense (sensors, streaming devices). Done right, the customer never thinks about the difference.
Smart-home jobs run a touch differently to general residential work because the design phase is heavier. Here's what to expect.
One unhurried session with everyone in the household who'll use the system. We map the spaces, the routines, and the must-haves vs. nice-to-haves.
Lighting plan with scene programming, blinds schedule, AV zones, network topology, camera coverage. Documented so you can see what you're paying for, line by line.
Cat6/6a backbone, lighting bus cable, speaker runs, blind motor cabling. Done during the build phase if it's a renovation; carefully retrofitted if it's an existing home.
Scenes built, schedules set, app accounts handed to you, voice-assistant integrations linked (Google, Alexa, HomeKit). Not just installed — tuned.
Walk-through with the household, written quick-reference card on the fridge, and a 12-month support window for tweaks. We answer the phone when something needs adjusting.
Mostly yes — with some compromises. Smart lighting can usually be done at the switch level (no rewiring); blinds need motor power runs which sometimes mean making good. We’ll walk the house and tell you what’s easy vs. what’s expensive.
Most of them — Lutron, Clipsal C-Bus and Wiser, Philips Hue, Control4 (referral partner), HomeKit, Google Home, Alexa. We pick the system that matches the brief and budget; we don’t shoehorn one product into every job.
Sometimes — usually not for free. Most homes need a proper mesh or wired access-point setup before we add 30+ smart devices. We do the network design as part of the project where needed.
Smart-home tech moves fast. We design with replaceable hubs, standard protocols (Matter, Zigbee, Z-Wave, KNX where appropriate), and structured cabling so the wiring outlives the gadgets. Devices come and go; the cable stays.