Intelligent Lighting

With Lutron HomeWorks and Ketra lighting, Malibu Wired designs intelligent lighting systems that go far beyond simple dimming. We create lighting experiences that feel natural, effortless, and deeply personal — from soft morning scenes to cinematic evenings, art-focused illumination, landscape lighting, and one-touch whole-home control.

For luxury residences in Los Angeles, Malibu, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and surrounding areas, Lutron is one of the most trusted platforms for refined lighting control, motorized shades, and beautifully integrated home automation.

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What Is Intelligent Lighting?

Intelligent lighting is a system where the lights, keypads, shades, schedules, sensors, and control interfaces work together as one experience. Instead of every fixture being controlled by a separate switch, the home can respond by scene: Morning, Entertain, Dinner, Movie, Relax, Goodnight, Away. One button can adjust multiple rooms, set the right brightness, warm or cool the color of the light, close shades, or prepare the home for the evening. The goal is simple: make the home feel more comfortable, more beautiful, and easier to live in.

What Is Intelligent Lighting?

Intelligent lighting is a system where the lights, keypads, shades, schedules, sensors, and control interfaces work together as one experience. Instead of every fixture being controlled by a separate switch, the home can respond by scene: Morning, Entertain, Dinner, Movie, Relax, Goodnight, Away. One button can adjust multiple rooms, set the right brightness, warm or cool the color of the light, close shades, or prepare the home for the evening. The goal is simple: make the home feel more comfortable, more beautiful, and easier to live in.

Why Malibu Wired Uses Lutron

For Malibu Wired, Lutron is often the preferred foundation because it gives us professional control over dimming quality, natural light, keypad design, shade integration, fixture compatibility, and whole-home automation. In a luxury home, lighting is used every single day — so reliability and long-term serviceability matter as much as the design.

Lutron’s HomeWorks platform is built to work natively with Lutron’s lighting, shades, and keypads, which helps create a more reliable and consistent system across the home.

Better Lighting Quality

Lutron gives us access to premium light sources like Ketra and Rania, which can create more natural, refined, and consistent light than typical LED fixtures. This matters because beautiful materials, art, fabrics, stone, wood, and architecture only look as good as the light revealing them.

Learn more: Natural Light & Ketra

Different Wiring Approach

With intelligent lighting, the wiring strategy can be different from traditional lighting layouts. Instead of filling walls with large switch banks and relying only on conventional line-voltage switching, the system can use centralized or wireless control strategies depending on the project.

In many modern homes, this can reduce wall clutter, simplify control locations, and help preserve cleaner architecture. Ketra light sources also include individually addressable wireless control, which can reduce the need for control wire and lighting control panels in some applications.

Learn more: Planning & Wiring

Cleaner Walls

A properly designed Lutron system can replace multiple switches with a single elegant keypad. Instead of controlling circuits, the homeowner controls scenes.

This is one of the biggest lifestyle upgrades: fewer switches, clearer control, and a more polished interior.

Learn more: Keypads & Controls

Keypad Flexibility

Lutron keypads are excellent, but Malibu Wired is not limited to only one visual style. Depending on the project, we may specify Lutron, Meljac, Basalte, Crestron, or Control4 keypads and interfaces.

This allows us to match the control experience to the architecture, interior finishes, and broader automation system.

Learn more: Keypad Options

Integration With Other Systems

Lutron integrates well into a larger smart home environment. It can work alongside systems such as Crestron, Control4, motorized shades, audio/video, climate, security, and voice control.

For homeowners who want Apple integration, Lutron also supports Apple HomeKit in supported systems, including HomeWorks QSX.

Learn more: Whole-Home Integration

Natural Light Experience

Ketra and Rania allow the home to shift from warm evening light to clean daytime light. This can make spaces feel more alive, more comfortable, and more connected to the rhythm of the day.

Ketra offers a very wide range of natural white light from 1,400K to 10,000K, while Rania options provide natural white light in ranges such as 1,800K to 5,500K, depending on the product.

Learn more: Natural Light

More Fixture Options

Lutron’s intelligent lighting portfolio includes lamps, downlights, tape lights, linear lighting, and architectural lighting options. This gives the design team more ways to layer light throughout the home.

The system can support ambient light, task light, accent light, cove lighting, decorative fixtures, landscape lighting, and specialty areas like theaters, wine rooms, closets, galleries, and wellness spaces.

Learn more: Lighting Types

Professional Reliability

Lighting is not something clients want to troubleshoot. Lutron is valuable because it is designed as a professional-grade system with components made to work together.

For Malibu Wired projects, this means better programming, cleaner service, and a system that can support the home long after installation.

Learn more: Malibu Wired Expertise
Modern open-plan living room with gray seating, circular coffee tables, and floor-to-ceiling windows letting in natural light; pendant lights hang from the ceiling and sheer curtains frame the view of a garden outside.

Daylight

Modern open-plan living room with gray seating, round coffee tables, and a kitchen area featuring a glowing neon light sculpture along the ceiling.

Twilight

Warm, contemporary living room with beige seating, round coffee tables, and warm pendant lights; open-plan kitchen in background with a glowing light installation above.

Relax

Dim, modern living room at night with warm amber lighting, round coffee tables, and a wavy neon light above the kitchen island.

Movie Night

The Power of Natural Light

One of the most exciting benefits of Ketra is its ability to create light that feels remarkably natural. Ketra light sources can produce a broad range of natural white light from 1,400K to 10,000K, along with a high-definition palette of 16.7 million colors. This allows a home to move from warm candle-like tones to crisp daylight and richly saturated color when needed.

In everyday living, this means the home can feel brighter and more energizing during the day, then gradually become softer and warmer in the evening. The result is not just “smart lighting,” but a more refined relationship between the home, the time of day, and the people living in it.

Malibu Wired + Lutron HomeWorks

Certified Expertise You Can Trust

Lutron HomeWorks is not a product that should be treated like a simple smart switch installation. It requires planning, design coordination, programming knowledge, and long-term service experience. Malibu Wired is a Lutron Platinum Dealer and experienced HomeWorks integrator serving luxury homes across Los Angeles, Malibu, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, West Hollywood, and surrounding areas. We understand how to design the system behind the walls, how to coordinate with builders and designers, how to program scenes that feel natural, and how to support the home after installation.

Our role is not only to install Lutron. Our role is to make the technology disappear into the lifestyle of the home.

Keypad & Control Options

Elegant Control for Every Design Style

A well-designed lighting system should be easy to use and beautiful on the wall. Instead of large banks of switches, we use refined keypads and touch controls that activate complete scenes like Relax, Dinner, Movie, Entertain, or Goodnight.
Malibu Wired offers and specifies keypad options from Lutron, Basalte, Crestron, and Control4, with select models available to experience in our showroom. Depending on the project style, budget, and system design, these controls may be included directly in our proposals.
From minimal architectural keypads to premium touch panels and custom engraved buttons, we help choose the right control interface for the home — not only for function, but for how it looks and feels in the space.
The goal is simple: fewer switches, cleaner walls, and one-touch control that feels natural from day one.

Lutron

Lutron offers a wide range of keypad styles and finishes, from minimal architectural controls to more decorative options that can match the surrounding interior design. For designers and architects, this makes the keypad feel less like a device and more like a detail of the home.

Panel with four round labeled buttons: Open (top-left), Raise (top-right), Close (bottom-left), Lower (bottom-right) on a dark surface

Alisse

Bronze brushed-metal wall plate with six circular push-buttons arranged in two columns and three rows (lighting switches).

Aviena

Brushed metal wall plate with four vertical buttons labeled Day, Evening, Nightlight and up/down arrows for dimming control.

Palladiom

Vertical four-button lighting control switch labeled Bright, Entertain, Relax, Nightlight on a brushed metal plate

Sunnata

White wall-mounted Lutron lighting control panel with three buttons: top button shows a light bulb icon, middle square panel with a circular knob and diagonal divider with arrows, bottom button displays a lamp icon and has the Lutron logo.

Pico

Meljac

Meljac is a beautiful option when the wall control should feel more like a crafted architectural detail than a standard technology device. Known for its solid materials, refined finishes, and distinctive tactile “click,” Meljac brings a very satisfying physical experience to lighting control. The brand offers a wide variety of finishes, plate styles, button configurations, toggle options, and custom engraving, making it especially valuable for homes where every visible detail matters. From brass and bronze tones to more contemporary finishes, Meljac keypads can complement door hardware, stone, wood, metal accents, and the overall interior design language of the residence. For Malibu Wired projects, we often consider Meljac when the client or designer wants lighting control that feels timeless, substantial, and beautifully made.

Brown wall-mounted control plate with four gold push buttons labeled Lights, TV, Dim, Fireplace; Hold 120 text at bottom.

Classique

≤ 4 toggles or 6 push buttons

Brushed metal wall plate with six square push buttons in two columns and three rows, each with a small indicator dot above it.

Cresnet

≤ 6 push buttons

Bronze brushed-metal 4-gang wall light switch with four square push buttons

Damier

≤ 6 push buttons

Beige 4-gang metal wall plate with four small rocker switches arranged in a 2x2 grid (two on top, two on bottom).

Ellipse

≤ 4 toggles or 4 push buttons

Brushed bronze wall plate with rounded corners, featuring a vertical toggle switch above a round black push button.

Solaris

≤ 4 toggles or 4 push buttons

Crestron

Crestron is ideal when lighting control is part of a larger, highly customized smart home system. Crestron keypads can control lighting scenes, shades, audio, climate, security, gates, entertainment systems, and more from a single location. This makes them especially valuable in larger residences where the homeowner wants a consistent control experience across the entire property. With multiple keypad styles, finishes, engraving options, and deep programming flexibility, Crestron gives Malibu Wired the ability to build very personalized control logic around the way each client actually lives.

Brushed brass mood-lighting switch plate with four labeled buttons: GOOD MORNING, GOOD NIGHT, RELAX, ENTERTAIN, and a separate LIGHTS row with up/down arrows.

Horizon

Metal finish

Vertical stack of five labeled buttons: GOOD MORNING, GOOD NIGHT, RELAX, ENTERTAIN, with up/down arrows and LIGHTS at the bottom.

Horizon

Glass finish

Mood lighting control panel with five buttons labeled GOOD MORNING, GOOD NIGHT, RELAX, ENTERTAIN, and LIGHTS (dimming arrows).

Horizon

Textured finish

Wall-mounted black mood-light controller with buttons labeled GOOD MORNING, GOOD NIGHT, RELAX, ENTERTAIN, LIGHTS (up/down arrows), and OFF.

Cameo

Smooth

Mood-light remote with stacked buttons labeled GOOD MORNING, GOOD NIGHT, RELAX, ENTERTAIN, LIGHTS (up/down arrows) and OFF.

Cameo

Textured

Control4

Control4 is a strong option for homeowners who want elegant, reliable, and easy-to-use whole-home control. Control4 keypads can activate lighting scenes, music, shades, fireplaces, security modes, and entertainment presets with one touch. They are practical, clean, and familiar for many smart home projects, while still offering customizable button layouts and engraving. For Malibu Wired, Control4 keypads are often a great fit when the project needs a beautiful everyday interface that connects lighting with the rest of the home automation system.

Wooden wall plate housing a vertical row of black buttons labeled Kitchen, Prep, Music, Next, with up/down arrows

Lux

Basalte

Basalte is an excellent choice for projects that need a very clean, modern, and architectural control experience. The design language is minimal, precise, and distinctly European, with controls that feel elegant without drawing too much attention. Basalte keypads are especially strong for homes that need simple scene control with a refined tactile feel and beautiful material options. They work well in contemporary interiors, where the goal is to reduce visual clutter and make technology feel fully integrated into the architecture.

Brushed metal elevator control panel with two black bars labeled 'lights' and 'shades' and up/down arrows on each bar.

Fibonacci

4 buttons
Black side-by-side refrigerator with a vertical front seam and a lights control bar.

Fibonacci

2 buttons
Two-by-two layout of brown square tiles with blue grout lines forming a cross shape at the center edge-to-edge gaps on a light background

Sentido

4 buttons
Copper-colored textured notebook or journal with a blue elastic band wrapping around the middle edge of the cover.

Sentido

2 buttons
Dual horizontal light switches on a brushed metal plate with blue indicator lights on.

Chopin

Bring Natural, Intelligent Light Into Your Home.

A great lighting system should not feel complicated. It should feel like the home knows what you need. With Lutron HomeWorks and Malibu Wired’s design-focused integration expertise, your lighting can become one of the most beautiful and valuable systems in the home.

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