Picture this: After a long day, you walk into your Manhattan home, and everything adjusts perfectly to your presence. The lights dim to your preferred level, soft music starts playing in the background, and the shades automatically lower to provide privacy as evening falls. 

An innovative company like Total Home Technologies powers this reality of a smart home system. Smart home automation is about creating an environment that responds effortlessly to your lifestyle preferences and daily routines, offering you unmatched comfort, convenience, and security in every room.

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Incorporating natural light into a home’s design is increasingly popular among homeowners, interior designers, and architects. As homeowners’ desire for healthier home environments continues to evolve, natural light has become an integral part of the solution. Our bodies, after all, rely on cues from nature, such as natural light and darkness, to increase or diminish hormone levels, produce vitamins, and manage the sleep-wake cycle.

This same breathtaking light, however, can damage your home’s interior, resulting in faded floors, furniture, artwork, and beloved photographs. And, so, we tend to close our shades when direct sunlight enters a room and leave them there for the rest of the day. In the process, we miss out on all the benefits natural light brings.

Fortunately, there is a better way. It’s called motorized shades, and it’s reimagining how we manage daylight and darkness in our Manhattan, NY, homes.

Let’s explore the possibilities.

As the number of connected devices increases, a reliable and fast home network becomes critical. If you live in a smart home, that need increases exponentially, with your home network essentially acting as the backbone of your entire system. 

If you haven’t upgraded your home network since integrating this vast infrastructure, you’ll find some irritating occurrences. The devices and activities that take up significant bandwidth—the maximum amount of data your connection can handle—begin to falter. 

The video conference call lags, letting you know the kids are playing Fortnite in the media room. The home Wi-Fi signal drops when you try to work out on the patio. You’ve come to expect the buffering wheel when watching Netflix.

Instead of getting used to slow speeds and dropped connections, it may be time for an upgrade. For a smart home, that often refers to an enterprise-grade network. Let’s explore what this means and how it supports your home’s connectivity in Manhattan, NY.

In some homes, lighting makes a statement with bold, bright, and beautiful fixtures that stand out in radiant glory, brightening every corner of the home. Then there are those clients looking for softer light that illuminates from an unseen source.

This diffuse lighting design creates intrigue and mystery with illumination that changes at the touch of a button, from soft and subdued to bright and breathtaking. Here, we’ll explore some of the common questions we receive as people explore today’s unique lighting systems for their Manhattan, NY, homes.