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Lighting & Motorized Shades by Encore AV in Missouri

Lighting and shading with handcrafted control options to enhance your daily lifestyle. Encore AV delivers integrated lighting and shading control in Missouri that feels effortless every day, serving luxury homes across Missouri.

High-End Luxury Lighting Options

Lutron LED luminaires and lighting fixtures offer customizable smart lighting to your Columbia home and beyond. Encore AV is a certified Lutron dealer serving Columbia and homeowners across Missouri. As specialists in Lutron lighting and shading, Missouri homeowners trust us to add powerful Lutron control so your home shines in its best light with color-tunable downlights, uplights, linears, and other options you will love. Homeowners choose Lutron for reliability, smooth dimming, and long-term color consistency that protects design intent.

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Lighting Design

Designing a beautiful home is about more than choosing the right color palettes and furniture. Lighting plays a vital role as well. It should highlight architectural features, bring attention to high end furnishings, and make colors stand out. The same lighting also enhances daily life by improving mood, visibility, and comfort while maintaining a consistent visual look across all rooms. Hire a professional to optimize your luxury lighting design Missouri homeowners rely on and control for a luxurious lifestyle and a residence that is simple to use.

Why hire a lighting designer?

Employing an independent lighting designer may seem like an odd choice for homeowners that have relied on electrical engineers and interior designers to take care of their lighting needs in the past. But when you make lighting a secondary job for others, it becomes an afterthought in your home. A local, Columbia-based lighting designer masters technical, scientific, and stylistic fields to deliver bespoke solutions and support residences statewide. The result is a design that looks right and a control plan that is easy to use, with keypad scenes and shade positions that match your lifestyle.

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  • Experts on the latest lighting technology through ongoing training
  • Refined techniques that transform invisible light into dynamic architectural design
  • Special training on physics, optics, electricity, codes, and environmental impact
  • Equipment costs reduced through competitive bids and manufacturer partnerships
  • An initial cost analysis that outlines lighting techniques to reduce equipment and labor costs
  • Detail-minded staff who craft innovative designs attuned to your home, lifestyle needs, and Missouri climate

Color Temperatures at a Glance

Lighting Tones

1,700 K

Red lighting reminiscent of a match flame offers a calming effect in the evening.

2,700 - 3,300 K

Elevate warm interior colors and wood finishes with warm, soft white lighting.

4,100 - 4,150 K

Stay focused on tasks in workspaces or kitchens with cool, white lighting.

5,500 - 6,000 K

Enjoy vertical daylight hues in the afternoon to stimulate your mood and décor.

6,500 K

Deliver lighting in main living areas with hues reminiscent of overcast skies.

15,000 - 27,000 K

Reserve clear blue lighting for activities that require ample energy or focus.

1,850 K

Craft the perfect date night light with romantic candlelit or sunset hues.

3,000 K

Facilitate relaxation with neutral white lighting while reading in the family room.

5,000 K

Employ crisp-white daylight hues to highlight artwork and bolster security.

6,200 K

Blue-white light mimics natural sunlight and delivers bright, energizing illumination.

6,500 - 10,500 K

Turn to blue hues for hyper-focused task lighting in your primary workspaces.
Lighting Tones

1,700 K

Match flames & low-pressure sodium lamps

2,700 - 3,300 K

Incandescent lamps & soft-white flourescent lamps

4,100 - 4,150 K

Moonlight; cool-white lamps

5,500 - 6,000 K

Vertical daylight

6,500 K

Daylight; overcast fluorescent lamps

15,000 - 27,000 K

Daylight; overcast fluorescent lamps

1,850 K

Candle Flame, sunrise, sunset

3,000 K

Warm-white fluorescent lamos

5,000 K

Horizon daylight

6,200 K

Xenon short-arc lamp

6,500 - 10,500 K

LCD or CRT Screen

Essential Layers of Light

You risk strained eyesight, obtrusive shadows, and rigid spaces with a one tone lighting design. Leverage ambient, task, and accent lighting for a visually balanced and flexible space that looks beautiful day and night, supported by lighting scenes for luxury homes.

Ambient Light

Illuminate the entire room with soft lighting from natural sunlight, recessed ceiling lights, or pendants.

Task Lighting

Special pendant, desk, or under-cabinet lights provide bright, focused illumination for specific activities.

Accent Lighting

Highlight artwork, photos, and architectural details with lighting that is three times brighter than ambient fixtures.

  • Daytime

    Keep to your workday schedule with a Daytime scene that brightens ambient and task lighting for focus. Shades can also adjust on sunny Missouri afternoons to reduce glare and help manage heat and humidity through integrated lighting and shading.

  • Bedtime

    As you head to bed, use a Bedtime scene from a bedside remote or tablet. Lights dim to warm, restful tones and shades close for privacy. This is especially helpful for lakefront glass and open floor plans at the Lake of the Ozarks.

  • Entertaining

    Entertain in style with a Party scene that brightens the kitchen and living areas with lively, welcoming light. Add landscape lighting to guide guests outdoors. Shade positions preserve views, reduce reflections, and keep spaces comfortable.

  • Movie Night

    Transform your theater with a Movie Night scene that dims recessed lights and decorative sconces while activating floor track lighting to ensure safe movement. Shades lower to eliminate on-screen glare.

Architectural Fixtures

For a successful layered lighting design, you will want a wide range of fixtures rather than relying solely on canned ceiling lighting. Through a mix of high-end pendants, downlights, and track lights, our designers ensure even, layered lighting that adds depth and beauty to your home while supporting daily tasks. We specify Lutron and Ketra solutions for cohesive color, smooth low-level dimming, and reliable performance.

Lamp on a dinning room

Lamp Solutions

Showcase Your Style

Curated Lutron lamp styles are Ketra-ready to combine high-quality light and design. Choose adjustable track luminaires for retrofit and new construction or adjustable beam trim lights to optimize aesthetics across rooms.

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Downlights

Fixed or Directional LED Downlights

Variable beam widths add flexibility by washing walls in illumination or showcasing artwork. Square and round apertures blend with your architecture so the light effect stands out rather than the trim.

Bathroom with linear lights

Linears

Lutron Luminaires

High-output linears excel in coves, grazing, and wall-wash applications, with smooth dimming at very low levels. Diffuse lenses soften light and reduce hotspots, creating clean, modern lines.

Kitchen with led lamps

Retrofit LED Lamps

All-Encompassing LED

Wirelessly control smart Lutron bulbs one by one or room by room. Adjustable beam angles let us tune how surfaces and art read in the space so counters are bright, ceilings are calm, and finishes look accurate.

Powerful Home Management at Your Fingertips

The simple press of a button on a keypad, switch, or dimmer shifts the ambiance in seconds. Experience a luxury routine that adapts to Missouri’s seasons with whole-home lighting control. Use brighter, cooler light with solar-responsive shades in humid summers. Enjoy warmer, cozier scenes during shorter winter days.

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Lighting Control

Effortless control is vital to unlocking the full potential of your lighting design. Easily manage diverse fixtures and shades together to develop beautiful layering while maintaining a uniform feel with a lighting control system. A centralized approach delivers intuitive control from your devices of choice and a streamlined installation for a beautiful, clutter-free space. Encore AV provides design, programming, and long-term support for the lighting control Missouri homeowners depend on.

Interfaces

High-end lighting control systems feature personalized interfaces available on dedicated touchpads or mobile apps. Approach lighting your way with easy-to-use graphic menus that show the status of lights in each room. Adjust intensity, color, and color temperature for fixtures or shade groups, then save favorite settings and pull them up at any time.

Processor

The processor is the heart of your lighting control system and ensures clear, responsive communication, so commands execute instantly. During the initial design stage, our lighting experts determine which model best fits your home based on scale and complexity for whole-home reliability.

Dimming Panels

Professional systems stand out with centralized dimmer panels. All dimming and control capabilities are routed through remote panels installed out of sight in an equipment room or utility closet. Dimmer panels reduce wall clutter, simplify wiring, allow more advanced programming, and coordinate lighting with motorized shades, fans, and motors.

Smart Dimmers/Switches

Reduce wall acne with elegant keypads that combine dimming, switching, and scene control. Improve convenience with keypads that offer instant access to scenes and let you manage lights and shades throughout the house. Choose flush-mounted solutions with matte, metal, or glass finishes that match your interior palette.

Lutron keypad
Lutron dimmer
Lutron Keypad
Lutron Keypad

    Lighting That Heals You

    Human Centric Lighting

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    Lighting is Part of Your Home’s Ecosystem

    Lighting is part of your home’s ecosystem. Consider human-centric lighting Missouri homeowners choose as part of your home’s architecture. It supports well-being, helps interiors photograph and present beuatifully, and stays simple to control. Personalize your space with a customized keypad, an intuitive app, or voice. Lutron and Ketra technology keep color and dimming smooth and consistent over time, so what you love on day one feels the same years later.

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    Natural Light

    Mimic the sun’s natural rays throughout the day, minimizing the difference between outdoors and indoors.

    High-Def Palette

    From 1,400 to 10,000K, enjoy the most comprehensive range of bright white and vibrant colors with pinpoint precision.

    Vibrancy

    Bring your furnishings and artwork to life with Vibrancy that shifts white light to the perfect setting.

    Natural Dimming

    As LED lights dim, your living spaces fill with a warm, golden glow to enhance your relaxation and wellness.

    Color Lock

    Color Lock preserves color throughout a light’s lifetime when other LED solutions’ colors degrade or mismatch when sourced from various manufacturers.

    Whisper-Quiet and Customizable Motorized Shades

    Remote-controlled shades, blinds, drapes, and honeycomb shades add sophistication and natural light management to any living space. Choose from luxury fabrics and designs that complement your style while protecting furnishings from harmful UV rays. At the Lake of the Ozarks, coordinate shades with lighting to cut glare from water reflections, preserve views, and elevate privacy at dusk with motorized shades that Lake of the Ozarks homeowners value.

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    Why Motorized Shading?

    Adding remote-controlled shades to your St. Louis, Kansas City, or Lake of the Ozarks home greatly improves morning, midday, and evening routines while upgrading climate management, lighting control, security, and privacy. With a vast array of beautiful fabrics and styles, you can create window treatments that complement your decor. Smart lighting automation enables effortless scenes and schedules, so shades rise and lower in unison, quietly and on time, often paired with lighting changes for a single, simple button press through motorized shades that Missouri homeowners trust.

    • Create perfect light by integrating motorized window treatments with your lighting system, so both adjust together
    • Automate your home by creating zones for various lighting and shading needs in each living space
    • Enjoy enhanced precision control as shades align across wide banks of windows, ideal for large glass and lakefront elevations
    • Straightforward control means anyone in the home can enjoy the simplicity that automated window treatments bring

    Explore the Benefits of Motorized Shading

    Save Energy
    Program your shades to keep the sun out during the hot summer months while harvesting it in the winter for natural solar heat.
    Enhance Security
    Timers are an efficient way to raise and lower your shades automatically to keep up the appearance that you're home — even when you're not.
    Match Aesthetics
    With hundreds of fabrics and materials to choose from, there's no need to sacrifice the interior and exterior decor you've perfected.
    Enjoy Privacy
    Privacy is easy to accomplish when you can lower all your shades with the press of a single button and set them to automatically raise and lower at high-traffic times.
    Protect Your Furniture
    Ultraviolet rays can be damaging to artwork, furniture, flooring and rugs. Avoid bleaching and fading by programming your shades to lower during the brightest time of day.
    Lutron roller shades
    Roller Shades
    Rollery Solar shades in a kids room
    Solar Shades
    blue honeycomb shades on a window overlooking the ocean
    Cellular Shades
    woven wooden roman shades by Hunter Douglas
    Woven Roman Shades
    Lutron Blackout shades
    Blackout Shades
    Horizontal Sheer Blinds by Lutron
    Horizontal Sheer Blinds
    Roman Shades by Lutron
    Roman Shades

      FAQ

      Do you provide lighting and shading control services across Missouri?

      Yes. We provide statewide lighting design, lighting control, and motorized shading services across Missouri, including Columbia, Jefferson City, St. Louis, Kansas City, and the Lake of the Ozarks.

      Can lighting control and motorized shades work together in one system?

      Yes. One scene can adjust light levels and shade positions together for comfort, privacy, and energy savings.

      Why is Lutron recommended for luxury lighting and shading control?

      Lutron is known for reliability, smooth, low-level dimming, and long-term color consistency, which protect design intent and reduce maintenance.

      How does lighting and shading control help with Missouri’s climate?

      Automated lighting scenes and motorized shades adapt to hot summers and darker winter months by managing glare, heat, and light levels automatically.

      Are motorized shades quiet enough for luxury homes?

      Modern drives are whisper-quiet and raise and lower in unison for precise alignment, ideal for wide glass walls and waterfront homes at the Lake of the Ozarks.

      Can Encore AV reuse existing lighting fixtures or switches?

      Often yes. We assess what can be reused and recommend upgrades only where they improve reliability or dimming quality.

      What does the Encore AV lighting and shading process look like?

      Consultation, collaborative design, professional installation, precise programming, and ongoing support so the system stays simple over time.

      Do I need to upgrade the entire home at once?

      No. Many clients start with key spaces such as the kitchen, living room, and primary suite, then expand as they experience the benefits.

      Craft a Beautiful Space with Light

      Outfit your home with professional lighting design, lighting and shading control Missouri homeowners rely on, Lutron lighting control, and motorized shading that usher a new level of luxury into everyday life. From design consultation to white-glove installation and ongoing support, Encore AV delivers a seamless Missouri-wide experience.

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