Create a retreat from busy life with Clipsal
Today’s world is increasingly fast paced, so why not have a home that feels like a retreat from the hustle and helps you to unwind, rest and recharge every day? Slow living is the antidote to these frantic times and here we show you how Clipsal can help create a home that supports you and your family every time you walk through the door.
Relax and recharge
Modern life has an “always on” feeling, so it’s more important than ever to seek balance. Slow living is a growing movement that encourages being more mindful about how you design your environment and spend time in it. A home created for slow living features restful spaces, connection with nature, and a feeling of comfort and security.
Sensorial design — catering to the senses — is a great place to start. Warm, muted, and earthy tones like ochres, clays, sage greens, off-whites, and warm greys feel grounded and are restful for the eyes. Choose textures and finishes that invite touch, such as raw wood, stone, aged leather, and natural fabrics.
For the interior design equivalent of wrapping yourself in a cosy blanket, look to ‘colour drenching’ where a single colour is applied continuously across every surface in a room — walls, ceiling, trim, skirting boards, architraves, joinery, and sometimes even the furniture — for an immersive experience. Use shades of forest green, deep plums or blues to create a comforting atmosphere and sense of enclosure.
Objects and artwork should be meaningful to you or be a pleasure to see or use each day. Consider dedicated spaces for slow rituals too, such as a proper reading corner with good light, a tea or coffee nook, a kitchen designed for cooking and catching up, and a bath as a place of escape and relaxation.
Slow down the smart way with Wiser
Clipsal Wiser is a smart home automation system that lets you set the scene for slow living by curating features like lighting, environment control, and security exactly the way you want them.
The Wiser system is simple for your electrician to install as it doesn’t require any special wiring and is scalable — so you can start with one or two elements and add to your system over time. The Wiser range includes everything from lighting controls, to sensors for leaks and humidity. These elements work together through the Wiser app on your smart device so you can create a home environment tailored to your needs, making daily life feel easier and more intuitive.
Lighting plays a significant role in how rested and restored we feel, working in harmony with our natural circadian rhythms. With Wiser, you can set bedroom lights to turn on at a low level in the morning and brighten slowly, or schedule blinds to open automatically at sunrise. Scheduling individual lights around your home also adds to the slow living lifestyle.
You can create Wiser ‘Moments’ as well, which combine several activities for a single purpose. For example, a ‘Welcome Home Moment’ might illuminate the outside of your house, close the blinds and set the lighting to your preferred level in each room — all with a single screen tap as you head home.
Intentional design with switches and power points
Switches and power points are a necessary part of every home but can still work with a slow living design approach. Slow interiors tend to be curated rather than accumulated — they have fewer objects, each chosen deliberately, with room to breathe around them.
The new Clipsal Solis™ Collection of luxury switches and power points is the ideal fit: the simple, striking design makes each piece a virtual work of art. Clipsal Solis was created to partner with high-end architecture and interior design and sits perfectly against distinctive finishes like concrete, natural stone, raw wood, and tiles.
Solis T series pairs the tactile pleasure of toggle switches and aluminium and ceramic finishes with the convenience of Clipsal Wiser smart home control — designed for those who appreciate the feel of analogue but value the ease of modern living.
The Clipsal Iconic range of switches and power points offers a variety of designs in glass-look, brushed metal and even timber-edged finishes and is compatible with Wiser too.
Create a safe and secure space
Truly relaxing starts with feeling safe and secure. For extra peace of mind choose Clipsal Fire Tek smoke alarms for your home. They can be interconnected wired or wirelessly, so if one alarm detects smoke all the alarms throughout the house will activate.
This alarm system can also link with the Wiser Smart Smoke alarm. Linking to the Wiser by SE app, it can be programmed to turn lights on around the house or to flash lights if smoke is detected. It will also send an alert to your phone if you’re away.
Whenever you’re away from home, you can use Wiser to schedule lights and blinds to make it look like someone is home. Wiser Door and Window Sensors send a notification to your phone if activated, so you know if the kids are home safely from school or if something has opened unexpectedly and needs attention.
Wiser Water Leakage Sensors in kitchens, bathrooms, and laundries can also help to protect your home from potential flood damage by sending an alert to your phone if there’s a leak.
Imagine a home where the rush of the world stops at the front door. Clipsal can help you create that space — talk to your electrician about what’s possible and start your slow living lifestyle.
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