Work in progress
A year ago, in June, me and my wife decided it’s time to get an actual home. Things moved fast, construction started late October and here we are less than a year later and it’s almost done. I’ve spent a lot of time planning and designing everything inside, from electrical wiring to furniture.
Started from a 2D plan to a fully designed house. Everything is planned for a smart house running on zigbee (and thread maybe in the future) on Home Assistant, a central rack, APs, cat6 ran everywhere, POE for cameras, displays, thermostats, sensors, you name it. We also built a separate room to be our home cinema/game room, with a “secret door” (a Filomuro door behind wooden slats).
I feel like going through all this trouble and not having smart shades or blinds would be for nothing. Normally, in Romania, outdoor blinds on the windows is the most common. Did the math, watched hundreds of videos and Smartwings was the obvious choice. Ran 220v above every window in the house, settled on the hardwired ones and ordered some fabric samples. We still don’t know which ones we like the most but we’ll probably go for different blackout types, depending on the rooms. Kitchen will definitely have the zebra one, which we love.
Since everything will be running on HA, most of the automations include the shades. My wife loves to sleep in so of course the shades have to be down until she wakes up. Turning off Sleep Mode on her phone will trigger a morning scene to let the light finally enter the “cave” 😁 The Helix dial remote will also probably be on her nightstand. Come to think about it, most of the smart automations are going to fit her needs, while my joy will come from creating them. Happy wife, happy life…
P.S. Just a few pictures attached here, 3D design, render and how it is now. Since we are not in Romania until December, I got some help from my parents for the current state of the house, so obviously those pics are typical “mom pictures”, zero talent at framing properly 🤣 Renders are done based on real objects we already own or others that we've found already and we're going to buy.