Lighting, particularly interior lighting, has a dramatic impact on the comfort level of your home. The lighting has to be an appropriate type and temperature. It is important that you can control the light level on all of your core lighting systems in the most active rooms such as the kitchen, dining room, living room, and entertainment room. Automated lighting controls, often referred to as “smart lighting” means you can eliminate dozens of lighting wall switches and replace them with simple control panels. A single control panel can control any number of lights in any number of rooms. This way you don’t have to walk to all the switches in all the rooms to change the level of lighting. The larger the home, the more critical lighting control becomes. Instead of walking to each and every room and manually turning off the lights, you can have a single button that you can press in your bedroom that simply says good night. Pressing this button runs a preprogrammed “lighting scene” that can turn off all the lights in the home, reduce the heating or air conditioning, arm the alarm, close the garage door, turn off all the televisions and entertainment systems, and leave exterior lighting on at 50%. You can also program convenient scenes for things such as dining, cooking, entertaining, away, football and welcome home. You can even include music playlists in each of these scenes.