Inspired By Light: Today’s Luxury Lighting Systems

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Creating Extraordinary Spaces with Advanced Illumination

There was a time when designers considered lighting an afterthought, preceded by furnishings, building materials, colors, textures, and artwork. Today’s luxury lighting systems have changed that.

The latest high-quality lighting systems provide an immersive experience like no other. These transformative technologies enhance design, add comfort, and increase property values. They bring artwork to life, showcasing its best features. Lighting sets the mood, elevates every activity, and brings a sense of well-being to those it touches.

Today’s advanced lighting systems are nothing if not miraculous.

At Pacific Audio & Communications, we partner with Lutron, the parent company of Ketra. Together, Lutron and Ketra have transformed how we illuminate our homes and enabled designers to utilize light like a painter’s palette.

Let’s explore the possibilities and how homes in Hawaii are embracing this technology.

Traditional Lighting

In many instances, traditional lighting was used to meet building codes. One color, one hue, and one intensity left nothing to the designer's creative imagination. There may have been some prominent fixtures placed throughout the home, even beautiful ones, but the light itself was nothing other than ordinary.

Today’s advanced LED lighting systems have gone far beyond those capabilities, creating possibilities lighting designers could once only dream of. Here are just a few of their incredible features.

Intelligent Lighting for Elevated Design

With the advent of high-performance LED lighting, illuminating a home transcended into an art form. Ketra delivers over 16 million colors, hues, and intensities of breathtaking light to select from, available with the touch of a button.

Today, every light can be programmed to adjust with one tap on a touchscreen or voice command. Saturated hues of gold, emerald, and cyan accompany entertainment, while shades of sunflowers and candlelight illuminate dinner parties. Bathrooms transform into relaxing retreats, with soaking tubs highlighted in shades of violet and indigo.

Artwork Made Better

Ketra’s Vibrancy feature is used in renowned museums and art galleries worldwide. It provides the ability to tune white lights, elevating colors, textures, and details. Built into every light source, finely tuning white light brings objects, art, and furnishings to life.

A Space of Well-Being & Beauty

More homeowners than ever are looking to create spaces that enhance their families' well-being, whether with spa-like retreats or an outdoor oasis that extends their living spaces into nature’s embrace. Ketra supports this goal with its human-centric lighting solution.

Human-centric lighting brings the natural light of the sun indoors by mimicking its changing patterns. Dawn casts its golden-blue glow outside and inside a home. The bright, white-blue tones of midday promote productivity, while the amber shades of a setting sun signal to the body that it's time to relax.

Not only does this lighting system bring the human body back into balance and promote a better sleep-wake cycle, but it’s also exceptionally beautiful.

Comfort & Convenience

Dedicated touchscreens, keypads, and mobile apps allow homeowners to manage their lighting from anywhere. As they pull into the driveway at night, lights automatically illuminate. When they go to bed, one touch turns them all off.

These premium lighting experiences enhance the overall value of a home, appealing to discerning buyers seeking customized lighting solutions. To learn more about elevating your clients’ homes with luxury lighting systems, contact PAC today.