Lighting and Shades
Lighting Control Checklist
A lighting control checklist organizes lighting loads, rooms, dimming needs, keypad locations, scenes, schedules, sensors, shade integration, and user control.
Before you start
Use this as a practical planning conversation.
Lighting control improves convenience, atmosphere, energy use, and the feel of a space. It also becomes more valuable when it works with shades, AV, and automation.
A homeowner can use this checklist to plan morning, entertaining, movie, dinner, goodnight, and away scenes while replacing banks of switches with engraved keypads.
Homeowners and businesses planning centralized lighting, dimmers, keypads, automated scenes, or integration with shades and AV.
Project intake
Personalize your checklist.
These fields help turn a generic planning list into a useful Davis consultation summary.
Interactive checklist
Work through the steps.
Check off what is already decided. Leave uncertain items open for the consultation.
Room and load inventory
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Scene planning
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Keypads and interfaces
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Sensors and schedules
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Testing and refinement
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Related Davis services
Useful service pages for this project.
FAQs
Helpful questions
What is a lighting scene?
A lighting scene is a preset group of lights set to specific levels for an activity such as dinner, movie night, entertaining, or goodnight.
Can lighting control work with shades?
Yes. Lighting and motorized shades can be programmed together for comfort, privacy, glare reduction, and energy efficiency.
Next step
Ready to plan your lighting control?
Davis Audio & Video can turn your checklist answers into a simple, easy-to-use system design.