33.4942° N 111.9261° W · SCOTTSDALE & PARADISE VALLEY, AZ
Lighting control in Scottsdale
Life in Scottsdale moves between the great room and the pool, ramada and outdoor kitchen, and many owners leave for the hottest months of the year. Lighting control ties those spaces into one set of scenes, keeps working through a monsoon power cut, and can have the house lit and ready before you land back home. We introduce you to vetted, licensed installers, and stay with you until you're confident.
- Licensed Arizona contractors only, checked on the state lookup
- Savant, Control4, Crestron and Lutron specialists
- Only here for the winter? We start by phone or video
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One system for every light in your home
Lighting control replaces individual switches with keypads, dimmers and a central system that lets you set and recall scenes, such as 'dinner,' 'movie' or 'away,' across every room at once. Instead of walking through the house flipping switches, one keypad by the front door or one tap on an app can bring the whole home to the right light level. Systems can also follow a schedule tied to sunrise and sunset, or hand off control to voice assistants and remotes.
Many luxury homes pair Lutron's lighting hardware, known for its reliability, with a whole-home platform such as Savant or Control4 for unified control alongside audio, shades and climate. Lutron's premium residential lighting and shading platform, HomeWorks QSX, is sold on its own for lighting and shading only; when it's built into a full whole-home automation system instead, the lighting is bundled into that larger project cost rather than priced separately.
What it usually includes
- Keypads and dimmers throughout the home, replacing standard switches
- Preset scenes you can recall with one tap
- Scheduling tied to sunrise, sunset or your routine
- Tunable-white or color-changing fixtures where you want them
- Integration with shades, audio and security
- App and voice control
- Professional programming as part of a whole-home system
What it costs
One luxury installer's pricing guide puts whole-home lighting control at $15,000 to $75,000 or more, with a 5,000-square-foot home carrying 20 to 40 keypads typically landing between $30,000 and $60,000. The same guide puts Lutron's premium HomeWorks QSX platform at $20,000 to $100,000-plus for lighting and shading alone.
The Scottsdale cost guide →Lighting built for how Scottsdale lives
Lighting for indoor-outdoor living
Pools, ramadas, outdoor kitchens and fire features are part of daily life here throughout the year, not something reserved for a handful of warm evenings. Lighting control extends scenes from the great room to the patio, so an evening of entertaining doesn't stop at the sliding door, and the whole property can shift moods with a single tap.
A house that's ready when you land
Many owners leave Scottsdale for the hottest months of the year, and an empty house can look empty from the street too. Lighting control can schedule the house to look lived-in while you're away, then switch to a full welcome-home setting timed to when you land back in town, no matter which month that is.
Keeping control working through a monsoon
Dust storms and power cuts are part of a Scottsdale summer (National Weather Service), and losing the lighting system along with the power leaves a house dark and its safety lighting offline. Putting keypads and the lighting processor on backup power keeps scenes and exterior lighting working through an outage, not only after one ends.
Check any installer's license yourself
In Arizona, contractors must be licensed by the Registrar of Contractors (ROC), which issues separate residential and commercial license classes. Before you hire:
Common questions
Straight answers to what owners ask us most.
Can lighting control cover the pool and ramada, not just the house?
Yes. Exterior zones for the pool, ramada, outdoor kitchen and fire features can run on the same scenes as the house, all from one app or keypad, so an evening scene dims the great room and warms the patio lights at the same time.
Will the lighting still work during a monsoon power cut?
With the processor and key circuits on backup power, yes. Ask your installer to include the lighting system when they plan for monsoon outages, not just the network and the cameras, since a dark house loses both comfort and safety lighting at once.
Can I set the house to look lived-in while I'm away for the summer?
Yes. Lighting control can run scheduled scenes that mimic normal activity while you're away, and it can switch to a full welcome-home setting timed for whenever you land, so the house feels ready the moment you walk in.
Do I need whole-home lighting control, or are smart bulbs enough?
Smart bulbs and switches are a low-cost starting point. Fixr's data puts smart bulbs at $10 to $40 each and switches at $25 to $150 each before installation, and a basic package of bulbs, switches and lamps runs $1,900 to $4,900 installed. Whole-home lighting control goes further, tying every room into one system with keypads, scenes and scheduling, which is why it costs more.
Who installs and programs lighting control?
Lighting control is usually installed and programmed by a licensed low-voltage or smart-home integrator rather than a general electrician, since the keypads, scenes and scheduling need to be configured room by room. See our guide to choosing a smart home installer for what to ask before you hire one.
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