Licensed Electricians · Orland Park, IL
Lutron Smart Lighting Installation in Orland Park
Big houses have a lighting problem that small ones don't: too many switches, in too many places, controlling too many things. A great room with eight gangs by the door and a two-storey foyer with a chandelier nobody can reach is exactly the case Lutron was built for.
The large 1990s and 2000s builds around Orland Park tend to have generous open-plan living space — a great room with recessed cans, pendants over an island, under-cabinet lighting, a dining fixture, and exterior lights, all landing in one or two crowded banks of switches. Nobody remembers which is which. Replacing that bank with a couple of keypads, each button doing something you actually asked for, is usually the single biggest quality-of-life change in the house.
These homes also usually have the neutral wires modern switches need, which opens up options that older housing doesn't have. Where a home has enough zones to justify it, RA3 puts the whole house — including shades and exterior lighting — on one system rather than a collection of apps.
Orland Park keeps a distinct permit category covering electric and low-voltage work, so a job like this gets filed on its own footing. We pull it and see the inspection through.
If you'd rather talk it through first, call (708) 407-3559 — quotes are free, and we'll tell you if you don't need the work.
What these jobs look like around Orland Park
- Great rooms with six, eight or more switches in a single bank
- Two-storey foyers with fixtures nobody can reach to change or dim
- Kitchens with cans, pendants and under-cabinet all on separate controls
- Finished basements and theatre rooms wanting scene control
- Whole-house systems where shades and exterior lighting join in
What's included
- A walk of the house to see which circuits are actually worth automating
- Keypads replacing crowded switch banks, engraved with what they do
- Dimmers matched to fixture type — cans, pendants and LED tape all behave differently
- Scenes built around how the room is used: cooking, entertaining, watching, away
- Caseta for a room or two, RA3 where the house justifies a proper system
- Filed under Orland Park's electric and low-voltage permit, inspection handled
When it's worth doing
- A wall of switches where guests just press all of them
- A chandelier or foyer fixture that's effectively uncontrollable
- Wanting one button for the whole downstairs at bedtime
- Exterior and landscape lighting that should run itself on a schedule
- A big house where half the lights are on all evening for no reason
Common questions
What's the difference between Caseta and RA3?
Caseta is the smaller system — a few rooms, a hub, no wiring changes, add as you go. RA3 is the whole-house version: more devices, keypads throughout, shades and exterior on the same system, and it needs a qualified installer to program it. For a house with a handful of zones, Caseta. For a large home doing everything at once, RA3.
Can you replace a bank of eight switches with something sensible?
That's most of the value in a house this size. A keypad with clearly engraved buttons takes the place of the guesswork, and the actual dimmers move somewhere out of the way.
Does this work with shades?
Yes, on RA3 — shades, lighting and exterior all end up on one system and one app, which is the point of going that route rather than stacking three products.
Will it still work if the internet goes down?
The lighting does, yes. The switches and keypads talk to the hub locally, so scenes and dimming keep working. You lose remote access from your phone until the connection is back, not the lights.
Get a free quote in Orland Park
Serving Orland Park and the surrounding southwest suburbs, covering Cook County. Call (708) 407-3559 or email sparkntechllc@gmail.com.
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