Transform Your Martha’s Vineyard Space with Lights & Shading

Lighting Design

Thoughtfully designed lighting and automated shading can completely transform how your home looks, feels, and functions. From warm, inviting interiors to precision lighting that supports your daily routines, professional lighting design brings out the very best in your Martha’s Vineyard residence. When combined with intuitive lighting control and motorized shading, your home becomes more comfortable, more beautiful, and effortless to enjoy—morning to night.

Designing a beautiful home is about more than selecting the right finishes and furnishings—lighting plays a defining role in how every space is experienced. Proper lighting enhances architectural details, highlights premium materials, and brings color and texture to life. Just as importantly, lighting directly impacts how you feel and function in your home, influencing mood, focus, and productivity.

Professional lighting design ensures that every fixture, beam angle, and color temperature is intentionally chosen to support both aesthetics and everyday living. By partnering with a lighting expert, you gain a tailored lighting plan that elevates your lifestyle while complementing your home's unique architecture.

Why hire a lighting designer?

For many homeowners, lighting has traditionally been left to electricians or interior designers as a secondary consideration. While those professionals play important roles, lighting often becomes an afterthought when it isn’t handled by a dedicated specialist.

A professional lighting designer brings together technical expertise, scientific understanding, and artistic vision to create a cohesive, high-performance lighting environment customized to your home and lifestyle.

See Lighting Temperatures

Benefits of working with a lighting designer include:

Ongoing training on the latest lighting technologies and control systems
Advanced techniques that transform light into a dynamic architectural element
Specialized knowledge of physics, optics, electricity, codes, and environmental impact
Reduced equipment costs through manufacturer partnerships and competitive bidding
Upfront cost analysis that minimizes labor and material expenses
Detail-oriented designs tailored to your daily routines and personal preferences

Color Temperatures at a Glance

1,700 K

Red lighting reminiscent of a match flame offers a calming effect in the evening.

2,700 - 3,300 K

Elevate warm interior colors and wood finishes with warm, soft white lighting.

4,100 - 4,150 K

Stay focused on tasks in workspaces or kitchens with cool, white lighting.

5,500 - 6,000 K

Enjoy vertical daylight hues in the afternoon to stimulate your mood and décor.

6,500 K

Deliver lighting in main living areas with hues reminiscent of overcast skies.

15,000 - 27,000 K

Reserve clear blue lighting for activities that require ample energy or focus.

1,850 K

Craft the perfect date night light with romantic candlelit or sunset hues.

3,000 K

Facilitate relaxation with neutral white lighting while reading in the family room.

5,000 K

Employ crisp-white daylight hues to highlight artwork and bolster security.

6,200 K

Blue-white light mimics natural sunlight and delivers bright, energizing illumination.

6,500 - 10,500 K

Turn to blue hues for hyper-focused task lighting in your primary workspaces.

1,700 K

Match flames & low-pressure sodium lamps

2,700 - 3,300 K

Incandescent lamps & soft-white flourescent lamps

4,100 - 4,150 K

Moonlight; cool-white lamps

5,500 - 6,000 K

Vertical daylight

6,500 K

Daylight; overcast fluorescent lamps

15,000 - 27,000 K

Daylight; overcast fluorescent lamps

1,850 K

Candle Flame, sunrise, sunset

3,000 K

Warm-white fluorescent lamos

5,000 K

Horizon daylight

6,200 K

Xenon short-arc lamp

6,500 - 10,500 K

LCD or CRT Screen

Essential Layers of Light

Relying on a single type of lighting can result in harsh shadows, eye strain, and spaces that feel flat or inflexible. A professionally designed lighting plan incorporates multiple layers of light to create balance, depth, and adaptability.

Ambient Light

Provides overall illumination using natural daylight, recessed fixtures, or decorative pendants to create a comfortable foundation of light.

Task Lighting

Focused illumination from pendants, desk lamps, or under-cabinet fixtures that supports activities like cooking, reading, and working.

Accent Lighting

Highlights artwork, architectural features, and focal points with light levels brighter than ambient lighting to add drama and visual interest.

Daytime

Keep to your workday schedule with a “Daytime” lighting scene that automatically activates at 9 am every day. As you head into your home office, bright white-blue ambient lights and desk lights greet you for optimal focus and concentration.
Bedtime

As you head to bed at the end of the day, prepare for restorative sleep with a “Bedtime” lighting scene you can activate from a bedside remote or tablet. Not only do lights dim gradually, but they switch to a warm, orange hue that induces relaxation.
Entertaining

Entertain in style with a “Party” lighting scene that activates lights in the kitchen and living room to a white-blue hue that keeps guests energized throughout the night. Add landscape lighting to the scene to encourage guests to gravitate to your beautiful outdoor spaces.
Movie Night

Transform your theater into the perfect viewing environment with a “Movie Night” lighting scene on your handheld remote or touchpad that dims recessed lights and decorative sconces while turning on floor track lighting for safe movement during the movie.

Architectural Fixtures

A layered lighting design depends on using a diverse range of Ketra fixtures rather than relying solely on recessed ceiling lights. By combining decorative and architectural fixtures, your lighting system delivers both beauty and functionality throughout the home.

Linear Pendants

Design-Forward Lighting

Available in a wide range of colors and finishes, linear pendants add visual interest while providing ambient or task lighting. These fixtures enhance kitchens, dining areas, and open living spaces with elegant form and balanced illumination.

Downlights

Illumination without Clutter

Downlights are primarily used for ambient lighting, though they’re also used for task or accent lighting in some applications. Recessed or flush mounted in the ceiling, they’re available in round or square trims to match your décor.

Retrofit Downlights

Remodel without Limitations

Replace outdated lighting fixtures seamlessly with retrofit downlights featuring low-profile designs that fit into most standard recessed housing. Select from our collection of high-end tunable LED fixtures available in round or square trims.

Track lighting

Bright, Versatile Spotlights

Track lighting offers adjustable, directional lighting ideal for highlighting artwork, cabinetry, and architectural features. Available in straight, curved, or circular designs, track systems provide flexibility without compromising aesthetics.

Smart Home Lighting Control

Effortless control unlocks the full potential of your lighting design. A smart home lighting control system allows you to manage every fixture in your home with precision, creating cohesive lighting layers while maintaining a clean, uncluttered look.

Centralized lighting control delivers intuitive operation from touchpads, mobile devices, or voice control, while simplifying installation and reducing wall clutter. Homeowners across Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and Vineyard Haven enjoy seamless lighting experiences tailored to their lifestyles.

Interfaces

Personalized interfaces on wall-mounted touchpads or mobile apps display real-time lighting status by room. Adjust brightness, color, and temperature individually or in groups, save favorite scenes, and recall them instantly with a single tap.

Processor

The processor serves as the brain of the lighting control system, ensuring fast, reliable communication between devices and fixtures. High-performance processors eliminate lag and deliver immediate responses, with system capacity selected during the design phase based on your home’s size and complexity.

Dimming Panels

Centralized dimming panels route all lighting control to discreet equipment locations, reducing wall clutter and wiring complexity. This approach allows for advanced programming, controls fans and motors, and minimizes the need for additional power equipment.

Smart Dimmers/Switches

Luxury keypads replace banks of switches with streamlined, design-forward controls. These smart dimmers provide instant access to scenes, whole-home lighting control, and combined dimming and switching in a single, elegant interface available in a variety of finishes.

Why Motorized Shades?

Motorized shading enhances daily routines while improving comfort, efficiency, privacy, and security. Automated window treatments integrate seamlessly with your lighting system, allowing you to balance natural and artificial light throughout the day.

With a wide selection of fabrics and styles, motorized shades complement your décor while providing effortless control through schedules, scenes, and smart devices—perfect for luxury living on Martha’s Vineyard and beyond.

Benefits include:

Integrated lighting and shading control for perfect light at any time
Zoned automation for customized comfort throughout the home
Quiet, synchronized operation on precise schedules
Simple, intuitive control for everyone in the household

Explore the Benefits of Motorized Shading

Save Energy

Program your shades to keep the sun out during the hot summer months while harvesting it in the winter for natural solar heat with smart energy management.

Enhance Security

Automated schedules raise and lower shades to give the appearance of occupancy even when you’re away.

Match Aesthetics

Choose from hundreds of fabrics and materials that enhance both interior and exterior design without compromise.

Enjoy Privacy

Lower all shades instantly or automate them during high-traffic times for effortless privacy.

Protect Your Furniture

Prevent fading and damage from UV exposure by automatically lowering shades during peak sunlight hours.

Roller Shades

Solar Shades

blue honeycomb shades on a window overlooking the ocean

Cellular Shades

Woven Roman Shades

Blackout Shades

Horizontal Sheer Blinds

Roman Shades

Craft a Beautiful Space with Light

Elevate your home with professional lighting design, intelligent control, and motorized shading that bring comfort, elegance, and simplicity to everyday living. From initial design through installation, our HTA-Certified lighting experts deliver white-glove service and exceptional results.

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