Decorex2026

intelligent lighting, automated curtains, invisible audio, show control

October 2026

The Beach House living room at Decorex 2026, shuttered windows looking out over the sea and a sofa in coastal tones

Credits

Interior Design - Hill House Interiors

Intelligent Lighting, Shading and Control - Lutron

Invisible Audio - Sonance

Bespoke Joinery - MHB Interiors

Artwork - Jan Erika Design

Photography - Nick Smith

Overview

The Beach House was our room at Decorex 2026, designed with Hill House Interiors and shown on Stand L50 at Olympia from 11 to 14 October. Visitors stepped off the show floor into a calm coastal living room with a bar, shuttered windows and a view out to sea. The view was the trick: three screens behind real joinery windows, playing one continuous scene that ran from sunrise to sunset in a three-minute show.

Lighting was the whole story. The room was lit with Lutron's Intelligent Lighting, with Ketra at its heart, and as the sun rose, climbed and set beyond the windows the light inside the room followed it: warm and low at first light, clear and bright at midday, golden as it fell, and down to a glow of one tenth of one percent at night. Every show began from a single Lutron keypad. The curtains drew, the room dimmed and every lighting cue landed in time with the beach.

Sound came from eight Sonance invisible speakers and two subwoofers hidden in the walls and ceiling, so waves and birdsong filled the room with nothing on show. MHB Interiors built the bar, the windows and the cabinetry that concealed all of it. The finale was fireworks over the sea, with the room flashing in the exact colour of every burst.

The Beach House stand at Decorex 2026 from the aisle, curtains drawn back to the bar inside

One room, one day of light, and nothing in sight that looked like technology.

The Bar

A timber bar beneath the windows, built by MHB to hide the equipment behind it.

Jan Erika artwork beside a woven lamp and a curtain in The Beach House

Art and Light

Jan Erika's artwork beside a woven lamp, lit by Ketra so the colours stay true all day.

Console table in The Beach House with flowers and woven pendants above, lit by Ketra downlights

Flowers and Pendants

Woven pendants over the console, with the light following the sun outside.

The Beach House from the bar, with lit coffered ceiling, woven pendants and the surfboard beside the console

Light That Follows the Sun

The show ran on command, not on a loop. A member of the team pressed a Lutron keypad, the curtains closed around the room, and the windows came alive with pre-dawn light. From there the room lived through a whole day in three minutes. At midday the light was at its coolest and brightest, and Ketra's Vibrancy pulled the colour forward in every fabric and finish Hill House had chosen. At sunset we showed the same scene twice: once with ordinary dimming, where the room turned flat and grey, and once with Intelligent Lighting growing warmer as it fell lower.

Then night, the credits in the sky, and fireworks over the sea, the room flashing in the colour of each burst. The curtains opened and the room returned to a calm afternoon. Between shows, a coastal playlist played through the invisible speakers and the windows held a still midday view, so the room was never anything other than a room.