For most people, the possibility of operating your home's lighting from the comfort of your own sofa is an exciting one. For a start, it gives us lazy (or ergonomically minded) people the chance to put our feet up and let technology do the heavy lifting. But there is another benefit to using minimal effort to carry out domestic chores: it makes you look like an absolute rockstar.

Anyone familiar with using Tripadvisor as a hotel scouting platform would know that one of the most common user complaints concerns faulty electrical appliances. Whether it’s flickering lighting, defective power sockets, or just a general shabbiness, the overall enjoyment of many a family holiday has been considerably compromised due to technology failures.

It is that time again when we all look ahead to a new year, and ask ourselves what we’d like to achieve from it. For many, 2017 is a blank slate, a fresh start. And for those upset with the conveyer belt of shocking news events that was 2016, the new year offers fresh hope. But while we can’t bring Harambe back from the dead, we can certainly change certain aspects of our lifestyle to live a happier, more stress-free existence.

Although the ‘new year, new me’ attitude is often a kiss-of-death of meme-generating proportions, Retrotouch is committed to helping you achieve your new year’s resolutions. So however ambitious and uncharacteristic your goals for this year, let our smart tech solutions help ease your way into a fitter, happier 2017!

For most people up and down the country, the festive season is a time best spent lazing around in a warm living room. Let's face it - your romantic hopes of a 'white christmas' are mainly to help justify spending an entire day indoors. And if your Christmas dinner isn't followed up with TV bingeing in front of a cosy fire, you're not doing it right.

If you're one of those home-owners keen to have a say on every last detail of your fixtures and fittings, you'd recognise the desire to have sleek, aesthetically pleasing light switches throughout the house. As the first thing we look for when we enter our homes, the relationships we have with our light switches are much understudied, and reveal rather more about ourselves than we would think...

etrotouch (www.retrotouch.co.uk) - the UK Company that designs and manufactures innovative electrical products for interior designers, architects and residential and commercial property developers. The Retrotouch range includes lighting solutions – switches and sockets; hotel solutions – thermostats, energy-saver cards; and Bluetooth/Wi-Fi audio speakers - all ideal for residential and commercial applications.

The latest innovation from Retrotouch is the Metal T2000 Audio System that brings music to the room of your choice be it the bathroom, bedroom, kitchen or study area.

A new entirely wireless remote control light switch (RTS 2020W) is announced by Retrotouch, the manufacturer of innovative lighting solutions and home automation products.

New remote-control lighting gets the mood right every time

HOME AUTOMATION LIGHTING SOLUTIONS THAT RETROFIT INTO ANY HOME

Retrotouch (https://www.retrotouch.co.uk), the lighting solution company,is launching a range of innovative lighting products onto the UK market such as remote-control light switches that bring sophisticated but affordable home automation functions to any type of property, new or old.

Editors choice in home building and renovation magazine

Launched in 2009 the new glass panel light switches have taken the world of light switches into the 21st century. Each switch with its stylish glass panel not only looks unique has the functionality to go with design.