Pasadena

Serving the San Gabriel Valley from Alhambra

Technology that respects a century of architecture.

Pasadena homes were built to be kept. Greene & Greene era Craftsmans, 1920s Spanish Colonial Revivals, Bungalow Heaven cottages, Mediterranean estates along the Arroyo — much of the city sits in landmark districts where the architecture is the point, and any technology that announces itself is a failure. Our work here is the discreet kind: lighting control that lives behind period-correct keypads, speakers that disappear into plaster, and wiring that respects what the original builders left behind.

Those same beautiful walls are the city's defining technical problem. Lath-and-plaster construction — often over wire mesh — is close to a Faraday cage, and the deep floor plans of a proper Pasadena house swallow consumer WiFi whole. The answer is engineering, not more plastic pods: a wired backbone, access points placed where coverage math says they belong, and control systems like Lutron RadioRA 3 that were designed to retrofit into finished, historic walls without opening them.