Room For Savings: Family Room

In every room of your home, you can find room for energy savings. You can feel like a movie director, inspiring your family room to an award-winning energy performance.

Use voice activated presets for comfort and savings. This lighting is a bit too bright, let's go with something more dramatic. Smart room, change the lighting to evening. Perfect.

Switch to LEDs to reduce lighting energy by up to 80%. These LEDs are fantastic, for the scene and our budget.

Install smart thermostats to save energy OK, I think 70°F was almost there, still just a little warm. Let's try this. Smart room, lower the thermostat to 68°F. That's better.

LED TVs use 20% less energy than standard models and advanced power strips can help you further reduce energy use by eliminating phantom load, which is stand-by power used by devices even when they are turned off. Smart room, turn off the TV — and action! Bravo smart room, bring the lights back up to full. Well done.

And that's how you'll feel when you find room for savings in your family room. Almost like you're walking down the red carpet. Cut!

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