And the decisions we make together.
The finishes, trims, placement, and fabrics we choose alongside you are what let the technology vanish into your vision. Consider this the field guide to those choices — written for the designers we're lucky to work with.
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Great design is found in the details. The finishes, trims, fabrics, and placement decisions we make together ensure that technology enhances the space without competing for attention. This guide was created to help inform those choices and support the designers we are fortunate to work with.
Light is the first thing you feel in a room — how you wake, how you work, how you gather, how you wind down. It shapes a home more than any single finish, which is why every project we touch begins here. We design the whole house of light alongside you and your team, then make it real.
Downlights, architectural and linear details, wall-wash and grazing, task and ambient layers — planned room by room with your architect and lighting designer.
We specify and procure the right fixtures for the look and the budget, and help your decorative and specialty pieces integrate cleanly.
We coordinate the install with your electrician — daisy-chained and tuned, with consistent color temperature across every fixture.
Then we bring it to life on Lutron — scenes, schedules, and the keypad controls featured later on this page.
Drag through the day. With Ketra, the light moves with the sun — warm amber at dawn, cool daylight at noon, warm again at dusk (1,400K–10,000K) — so a home feels balanced and a family sleeps better. Rania shifts white temperature; Ketra adds full color; we reach for Lumaris only when the budget calls for it.
It's the single change that most affects how a space feels to live in. Whether it's a whole estate or one great room, we design the light to match the architecture and the way the family actually lives — and carry it outdoors too, with landscape lighting that finishes the picture.
Audio that disappears, screens that vanish, shades, theater, and the controls that tie it together — each built on the same idea. Keep scrolling.
Invisible speakers install behind the surface itself — plaster, paint, a thin veneer, wallpaper, or Venetian plaster — with as little as 3mm of covering. Where you want true high-fidelity, small-aperture speakers (James Loudspeaker's 3″ aperture, square or round) deliver reference sound through an opening barely larger than a coin, with grilles fabricated to read as part of the ceiling. Drag the image to watch one vanish.
Our in-wall soundbars install flush into the wall, then the grille is finished to match it exactly — laser-printed to your wallpaper pattern or wall color, or wrapped in the actual wallpaper and perforated so sound passes through. The homeowner gets uncompromised audio; you get a clean wall instead of a black bar beneath the television. It has become one of the most requested details in the high-end homes we work in.
A screen doesn't have to be a black rectangle on your feature wall. We frame TVs with Leon's handcrafted Edge MediaFrame — solid hardwood in walnut, oak, grain black or any custom finish — pairing a Sony Bravia 9 for a picture and frame that outclass the old Samsung Frame. Or make it vanish entirely: rolling-art canvases that drop in front of the screen, mirror televisions that hide behind glass, and mirror-lift TVs where artwork rises to reveal the display.
Art that lifts, cabinets that open, screens that rise on cue. Drag the sliders to see the mechanisms work.
Keypads and touchscreens are the one piece of technology a guest actually touches — so they should be beautiful. We specify Lutron Palladiom keypads and wallplates in metal, glass, and luxury matte finishes, engraved to the room, alongside Savant touchscreens recessed into the wall or mounted on it. This residence will carry Savant screens throughout, and every faceplate color and engraving is yours to set against the wall behind it.
A traditional four-gang switch bank gives you one cold paddle per circuit. A single Palladiom keypad replaces the whole row — one elegant plate running scenes for lights, shades, and more — and hands the wall back to your design. Drag to compare.
Sometimes the audio shouldn't hide — it should be sculpture. As one of the few Bang & Olufsen dealers in New England — and home to the region's largest showroom, in the Boston Design Center — we can weave their iconic speakers and televisions into a room as design objects in their own right, in finishes and fabrics chosen to belong. Disappear it or display it — your call, and we're equipped for either.
Beovision televisions that unfold into sculpture, Beosound soundbars, and Beoplay headphones — the same design obsession, carried beyond the speaker.
This is a full-service window-treatment studio. We measure, design, sell, install, and program shades, shutters, drapery, and woven naturals — for both Lutron and Hunter Douglas — and make every one of them move silently on the same system as your lighting. One team, one point of contact, from the first measurement to the final scene.
For dedicated theaters and media rooms we design the seating, the acoustic treatment, and the hidden subwoofers — pieces like James Loudspeaker PowerPipe subs tucked into a credenza under a video wall — so a room performs without looking like an arena. We bring the same acoustic eye to any space that needs it, and add Seura lighted mirrors, handcrafted in Madison, Wisconsin, that integrate cleanly into baths and dressing rooms.
A short field checklist. The earlier these come up in your process, the more invisible the result. Bring any of them to us and we'll bring the options to you.
2024 Lutron Excellence Award winner and Hall of Fame inductee — recognized for lighting and shading integration delivered hand-in-hand with the design team, exactly the partnership this page is about.
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Honored for invisible, seamless audio — work that delivers reference-grade sound while vanishing completely into the architecture. The award is literally named for what we do.
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A short, no-pressure conversation about a current project or how we collaborate with your studio. We'll come prepared with ideas, not a sales pitch.
Book a consult →On a project together already? Request finish and spec samples for your selections, or schedule a showroom visit to audition options with your client.
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