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Nice, right?! With the right infusion of scents and colors you can bring that sense of fresh renewal into your home this season.

Bring on the Color

If you think about it each season has it’s own destinct color pattern, mostly inspired by Mother Nature herself. Winter is definitely blue, white and silvers. Spring would be greens, pinks, and other soft shades. But fall has arguably the most destinct and diverse color pallet of all the seasons.

Consider the changes in the trees alone. Reds, yellow, orange, brown, etc. In order to truly infuse your home with the feel of autumn you’ll need to bring these colors into play. Does that mean you should paint your living room a temporary burnt orange? Absolutely not. But adding a new table cloth and centerpiece to your dining room or putting out some aptly colored candles throughout your home is enough to invite Mother Nature right in for a visit.

Smell: The Essential

You can add all the color that you want, but until you really bring smell into the equation your fall transformation will never be complete. Consider the holidays of fall: Halloween, Thanksgiving, and finally (and somewhat arguably removed more toward winter in most climate zones) Christmas.

Imagine the smells that you associate with these holidays and you’ve got your aromatic targets for a fall home. Pumpkin, apples, spice, cinnamon, pine needles- these are all smells commonly associated with fall. Many of them are a homey, rich scent that should remind you of, essentially, food. Fortunately you don’t have to spend your days baking away in an effort to infuse your home with these smells, just check out the infamous Yankee Candle Company and see what they offer by way of fall scents.

Fall isn’t just a reprieve from the sweltering heat of summer right before the chilling frost of winter. It’s a season filled with holidays that invoke family gatherings and hopefully a feeling of warmth and comfort. What better nature-inspired concept to bring into your home could there be? 

The new home automation system unveiled by Cullum Homes. Image courtesy of Martalwalsh.com

Lucky owners of the two new luxury homes in the Village at Paradise Reserve by property developer Cullum Homes will be able to enjoy the features of a dynamic home automation system that will provide them with the ultimate in modern comfort.

The Apple OS X-based system, which was developed as a result of collaboration between Cullum Homes and CyberSound, a well known provider of home automation systems, will be operated by a series of iPad, iPhone and iPod devices, as well as devices built into the walls of the homes.

Control your home through your iPad. Image courtesy of elitechoice

Residents will be able to control a number of technological features in the home at the click of a button, wherever they are in the building. The automation system will allow users to operate internet activity, lighting, climate control, home theater and audio systems, home security features and even motorized window shades.

According to Cullum Homes the new technology, which utilizes both software and hardware from one main source, will be able to reduce the running costs of each home considerably.

The Village at Paradise Reserve. Image courtesy of phxre.com

And because the system uses existing Apple devices for control, installation costs associated with the automation system are considerably less than other systems around, costing just $3,800 per home.

Jon Summer, president of CyberSound, said that the high-end automation system offers more “user-friendliness” than that of other, less advanced systems, while being considerably cheaper to boot.