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Some of our favourite projects happen when an interior designer and our team work on a home together. Technology decisions and design decisions are really the same decisions — where light falls, how a room feels in the evening, what you see on the walls — and they turn out best when both sides talk early. We work with interior designers across Shropshire and beyond, and we always welcome new collaborations.
Key points
- We welcome collaborations with interior designers, on single rooms or whole houses
- Involving us at the plans stage means technology disappears into the design, not onto it
- Keypads, blinds and speakers all come in finishes designers can work with — and choose
- Local studios we already collaborate with include Summer House Interiors and White Water Interiors
- Designers are welcome to use our Shrewsbury showroom with their clients
Why designers and installers belong in the same room
A lighting scene is an interior design decision. So is a keypad finish, a speaker position, and whether a television is visible when it’s off. When the technology plan and the interior scheme are developed together, you get rooms where everything belongs: blinds that match the joinery, keypads that sit flush in the right metal, lighting that flatters the finishes the designer fought for.
When they’re developed separately, you get the familiar compromises — a beautiful room with a plastic keypad bolted where the electrician found space.
Who we work with locally
We collaborate with a number of studios around Shropshire, and the list keeps growing. Two we work with regularly: Summer House Interiors in Shrewsbury — where you can see Lutron keypads, blinds, lighting and curtains displayed in situ within a professionally designed setting — and White Water Interiors. But to be clear: we’re not tied to anyone. If you’re a designer with a project, or a homeowner with a designer already on board, we’d genuinely like to talk.
How the collaboration actually works
Every project is different, but the pattern that works looks like this:
- Plans stage: we mark up drawings together — keypad positions, speaker placement, blind pockets, wiring routes — before anything is fixed.
- Finishes: the designer chooses keypad materials and colours from the ranges (Lutron’s Palladiom range alone covers metals and glass), and fabric-led window treatments stay fabric-led — Silent Gliss tracks work with any curtain maker’s fabric.
- On site: we coordinate with the builder and the designer’s schedule, first fix to final calibration, so nobody’s work is undone by anybody else’s.
- The reveal: lighting scenes are set with the designer, in the finished room, so the scheme looks the way it was imagined — at 7pm, not just at noon.
For designers: what you get from us
Plain-English proposals your client can read. Drawings marked up properly. A single in-house team from design to aftercare, so there’s one phone number when something needs adjusting. And no surprises on site — we’ve been doing this since 2006 and we know that your reputation is on the wall next to ours. We’ve written similar guides on working with builders and working with electricians — or start with how we work with the trade.
Common questions
Do you only work with certain designers?
No. We have studios we collaborate with regularly, but we welcome working with any interior designer — on a single room or a whole property.
When should a designer bring you into a project?
Ideally at the plans stage, before first fix. Everything is easier — and cheaper — when wiring routes and keypad positions are decided alongside the design rather than after it.
Can technology really be hidden in a designed room?
Almost entirely. In-wall speakers, concealed blinds, keypads in finishes that match the scheme, televisions behind art or in joinery — hiding technology well is most of our job.
How do we start a collaboration?
Call 01743 234945 or use the contact form — or drop into the showroom with your drawings. Coffee’s included.