The wall panel, finally part of the room.

Most touch-control surfaces in residences arrive after the room is designed and sit in it like an apology. Tahoe is the interface composed for the architecture — typography, palette, motion, and tile arrangement drawn against the room rather than dropped into it. We share the spec sheet with the design team, not the rep, and the panel ships ready to be seen.

Featured at Crestron’s booth at the 2025 Monaco Yacht Show. Written natively for CH5 and SmartGraphics, not a third-party wrapper.

Why most panels feel out of place.

The reason isn’t the hardware. The Crestron and Lutron panels installed in serious residences are extraordinary devices. The reason is what gets put on them.

A typical integrator deploys the manufacturer’s default interface — a configurable template that looks the same on every house. Different colours, different tile placements, but the same visual language: technology-software vernacular dropped into a room where every other surface was composed. The result is a panel the household tolerates rather than uses, and a design team that quietly hides it behind a sliding cover.

Tahoe is the alternative. A surface composed for the room: serif or sans-serif chosen with the joinery, palette pulled from the architecture, motion timed to the daylight pattern of the space. The household reaches for it; the design team is willing to show it on the project shoot.

Tahoe’s design language.

Three principles guide every panel we ship — the same principles you’d use to choose a fitting or a finish.

Calm by default.

The panel rests dark. No badges, no notifications, no flashing colour. It lights only what is touched and answers in one tap. Louder when needed and silent when not — never both at once.

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Composed by hand.

Tile placement, scene order, climate dial position — every visible element is composed for the specific room the panel lives in. The composition is the design discipline; configuration alone produces a layout the room rejects.

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One vocabulary across surfaces.

The same tile arrangement lives on the in-wall panel, on household iPhones, on iPads in the kitchen, and on the voice surface in the master suite. One scene library, one interaction language — consistent across every surface the household touches.

How Tahoe ships into a project.

For architects and designers working with us, the panel work runs alongside the design development rather than after it. The earlier we’re shown the palette and the joinery, the more the panel can reflect them.

Schematic design — we mark up the panel locations on the architectural plans, agree on bezel cuts and depths with the millwork contractor, and confirm orientation. The panel becomes a fixture in the drawing set, not a decision deferred to commissioning.

Design development — we share a Tahoe preview matched to the project’s palette and typography. The design team marks it up the way they would mark up a sample board; we iterate. The owner-visible surface is approved before construction documents are issued.

Construction — the Crestron programmer writes the underlying scenes; we compose the Tahoe surface on top. Commissioning happens with the household in the room, refining the interface against how the residence is actually used.

Life of the system — the surface evolves with the residence. New rooms, new scenes, new household members. The same senior engineer returns to refine the interface as the home settles.

Common questions from design teams.

The questions that come up most often on first conversations with architects and interior designers.

Can the panel match a specific typeface?

Yes. Within the constraints of what Crestron panels can render natively, we work in serif and sans-serif families and match weight and tracking to the rest of the project’s typography.

What about palette?

Tahoe ships with a small library of refined defaults and accepts custom palettes drawn from the project. We typically agree the panel palette alongside the architectural palette during DD.

Does Tahoe work on every Crestron panel?

Tahoe is written for current-generation Crestron TSW and TS in-wall panels (CH5 and SmartGraphics). It does not run on legacy TPS-class panels; for retrofits we will note where panels need to be updated.

Do you provide a spec sheet?

Yes. Tahoe ships with a design-team-facing spec packet — renders at scale, palette swatches, typeface options, motion language — that can sit alongside the project’s other finishes documents.

Can the design team see Tahoe before commissioning?

Yes — an interactive demo is available at tahoe-demo.intuitiv.space, and we provide a project-specific preview during design development.

How is Tahoe commissioned?

A senior engineer commissions the surface with the household present, refining tile arrangement and scene language against how the residence is actually used. The first commission usually takes two visits.

Bring Tahoe onto your next project.

For architects and designers actively working with us, the earlier in the design process we’re brought in, the more the panel reflects the architecture. We accept a small number of design-team engagements each year.

Begin a conversation → Open the Tahoe page · What is an on-panel interface · Open the interactive demo