If you have a lighting control system in your house, you have a great tool for making your home safe and comfortable all year. This is particularly helpful now that we are in the depths of winter when the home can feel like a fortress against the frigid weather or a prison created by snow. In order to make your home your castle this year, consider the following.
Optimize Your Lighting Control System
The mornings are dark now. Your kitchen will be pitch black when you have to get ready for work. You might find yourself stumbling around, running late, as you try to find your clothes in the dark. It is also harder to just wake up if it looks like night in your house. People are diurnal, with circadian rhythms regulated by light. Program your kitchen and bedroom lights to go on when you have to wake up and you will feel ready for the day every day. You won’t trip entering the kitchen and you will find your clothes when you are running behind.
Keeping your home comfortable and well lit through the day also requires changing your programming. The sunrise moves through the year so that a room that will feel comfortable and sunny at 8 in the morning in June will feel gloomy and like a heat sink at the same time in February. You can counteract this tendency by programming all your window shades to open later, and you can change which shades open first so that the side of your house that gets the sun first can start their work before the other rooms.
The sunlight can also come in lower. You can adjust your venetian blinds to optimize the light that each room gets. You might simply keep some window shades closed in rooms that don’t get much light in order to keep heat in.
The programming for the lighting control systems that RIT installs is easy to adjust to the winter weather. If you don’t have a lighting control system to optimize, contact us and we will make your fortress as comfortable and safe as possible.