Enjoy architectural illumination, curated for the celebration

Every December, a beautifully finished home is asked to make a subtle compromise. Boxes of temporary colored bulbs emerge from storage, requiring ladders beneath double-height ceilings to replace lamps meticulously chosen for their quiet refinement. For a few weeks, architectural lighting yields to makeshift modifications. In January, the whole exercise repeats.

Ketra lighting offers an effortless, permanent solution. The same recessed and linear fixtures that render natural white light every day possess the precision to project deep, saturated color, allowing the season's palette to emerge naturally from within your home's infrastructure. A festive scene arrives at the touch of a keypad and retires just as discreetly. Discover how holiday color unfolds within an estate designed around Ketra.

One Fixture Holds Every Color the Season Asks For

The Ketra A20 and architectural downlights utilize a proprietary four-channel light engine capable of 16.7 million vibrant, calibrated hues. That color capability coexists with continuous natural white light spanning 1,400K to 10,000K, featuring seamless dimming down to 0.1%

In your home, this range allows a Ketra downlight casting crisp illumination across marble kitchen surfaces at noon to bathe adjacent architectural volumes in deep cranberry by evening. Ketra maintains precise chromatic consistency across every diode, so a winter green reads as true evergreen and retains its absolute purity throughout the gallery.

Softer tones offer equal sophistication. Pale gold and delicate champagne hues enhance a New Year's Eve gathering, complementing the interior architecture and flattering your guests. When the season concludes, a single touch restores every fixture to its everyday circadian schedule, without a single lamp swapped or stored.

Holiday Scenes Composed Room by Room

Expressing color within a luxury interior requires deliberate curation. Our lighting designers approach holiday illumination as an architectural composition, balancing vibrant focal points with pure, natural white light. A coffered ceiling or a limestone feature wall can hold a rich crimson while task fixtures illuminate culinary prep areas in warm, practical white. Faces around the dining table retain a warm, radiant illumination, and the estate maintains its essential elegance in evening gala attire.

Each scene is programmed to a bespoke, backlit button on a Lutron Palladiom keypad, custom-engraved with designations such as "Holiday Evening." Your lighting scenes can also follow precise astronomical timeclocks. Lutron HomeWorks can smoothly cross-fade into the holiday scene as twilight deepens, transitioning to a discreet late-night aesthetic at the hour you choose.

On the Eastside, December days end before half past four, leaving long winter evenings for dinners and gatherings. Guests arriving out of the winter air step into a residence perfectly orchestrated for the occasion, unfolding effortlessly without a single manual adjustment.

Plan Ketra Color Into Your New Build

Holiday lighting design achieves its highest expression when integrated during the conceptual phase. During new construction or an extensive renovation, our team collaborates closely with your architect, interior designer, and builder to position Ketra fixtures where chromatic depth creates maximum impact, particularly within dramatic arrival foyers and double-height great rooms. Every Ketra fixture connects wirelessly to your Lutron HomeWorks system, so the fixtures that light your home each day are the same ones that carry its holiday palette.

New scenes can be curated for any occasion. A Lunar New Year red or a tailored summer evening palette requires only a quiet software refinement. The same fixtures also harness Ketra's Vibrancy control, which tunes how white light renders the fine art, rich wood grains, and custom stone selections you live with year-round.

Elite Automation holds Lutron Black Diamond status for 2026, the highest tier of Lutron's dealer program, reflecting the caliber of engineering and artistry we bring to every Ketra system we design.

Welcome the Holidays in Color This Year

Ketra allows your estate to celebrate the season in rich color while preserving the architectural integrity of your existing fixtures. Elite Automation composes each scene around your residence and the traditions your family cherishes, delivering an atmosphere that feels deeply intentional from the first evening of December. 

Contact our team to arrange a private consultation, or connect via live chat below to begin planning Ketra for your residence. We look forward to hearing from you.