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Motorized shading for the outdoor rooms of Eastside homes

Outdoor rooms along the Eastside are often designed to make the most of their surroundings, especially when a pergola or covered patio opens toward Lake Washington. Overhead cover keeps the space comfortable when the sun is high, but the experience changes later in the day as lower western light begins reaching beneath the roofline. Reflected glare from the water can reach the dining table just as everyone is settling in. 

Motorized exterior shades driven by Lutron manage that exposure while preserving the open character of the space, all through the same control system as your lighting. Keep reading to see how these shades work outdoors and how we plan them into a new home.

Wireless RadioRA 3 controls that work with your existing wiring 

Many distinguished homes in Medina and Clyde Hill were completed before whole-home Lutron lighting control became part of the original design. Their architecture may have aged beautifully, but the lighting controls tell a different story: long rows of mismatched switches and an evening routine that still requires moving from room to room. 

Modernizing the system can seem difficult when the home includes plaster walls, custom millwork, and finishes chosen to last. Lutron RadioRA 3 offers another path. Its wireless controls use the wall openings already in place, bringing contemporary lighting control into the home while preserving the details that give each room its character. Elite Automation plans every Lutron retrofit for the residence as it stands today. Keep reading to see what that process can look like in your home.

How microscopic light control changes everything you see

The color of a room, no matter how you paint the walls, is never fixed. It shifts with the light around it, brightening under one bulb and dulling under another, often without you noticing the difference until you step outside and see the truth. A navy suit reads black under the wrong glow. A canvas loses its deepest tones to a fixture that was never built to honor them. 

Most lighting treats color as an afterthought, a byproduct of brightness rather than something worth controlling on its own terms. Ketra was designed around a different premise: that light itself can be tuned with extraordinary precision to bring color to its fullest expression. What that looks like in a wardrobe, a gallery, or any space where color matters most is worth a closer look.

Ketra Lighting Brings Realistic Daylight to Rooms That Don't Have Any

Not every room in a home gets natural light. Interior bathrooms, basements, home theaters, and windowless hallways are often stuck with flat, artificial lighting no matter how well-designed the rest of the house is. Ketra's tunable lighting technology can change that. By replicating the exact color spectrum and intensity shifts of real daylight, Ketra can turn a plain ceiling or wall into what we call a digital skylight, bringing the feel of natural light into spaces that were never built to have it.