As you may know, we have spent the last year upgrading our older, yet new-to-us dream home into a tech-savvy smart home with the help of The Home Depot. All opinions are 100% mine.
So far, we have upgraded to a smart garage door, installed a video doorbell, added a video security camera to the side of our house, upgraded our kitchen island lightbulbs to wifi enabled bulbs, installing smart light switches, and today we are talking about smart locks!!
Before we write a review of the products we receive, we like to use them for several weeks or months to ensure that we like them. I am obsessed with these smart locks, and I like them way more than I thought I would. Schlage Smart Locks provide way more peace of mind than I ever imagined.
Here are my 11 reasons why smart locks are worth the investment:
- They are compatible with the WINK hub which a lot of the other smart home products that we have are too. We can control our locks, the garage door, the doorbell, and Schlage door locks.
- You can set them to lock automatically at a certain time each night/day. We have ours set to lock at bedtime, and it helps to know that if we forget to lock a door, they will automatically lock themselves!
- I can lock them with my smart phone. I can unlock my door for a friend who is coming over and re-lock it afterwards.
- You can add temporary codes that will disable after a certain amount of time.
- I can check to see they are unlocked from anywhere.
- The alarm goes off if my kids slam the door. {It’s a good way to stop that from happening!}
- Vacation mode is great and will disable any code from working while you are out of town!
- You don’t need any additional wiring to install them. You just need a screwdriver and four AA batteries. Plus, the app shows me how much battery life remains in the locks!
- With teenagers in the house, it’s great insurance. Not literally, but I love that I can look back to see what time my teenager came in the door since I have a log of when the door was unlocked.
10. I love having a key pad for my kids to use in case I am not home when they get here. I don’t have to worry about distributing keys, hiding one in the rocks…etc.
11. If you are someone who loves to have your doors locked at all times, you can enable an auto lock feature that will lock your door 30 seconds after you unlock it.
We decided to paint our shutters and our front door black. Now that the garage and front doors are painted black {you can checkout the exterior transformation here}, we decided to change up the front door handle and locks to a bright brass! The Schlage Camelot Bright Brass Connect Lock System was perfect! The smart pad touch screen blends in with the door and it looks modern.
The front door handle and locking mechanism is sleek, attractive, and works great! Plus, the touch screen doesn’t show any fingerprints!
For the interior doors, we decided to go with a satin nickel finish smart lock set to match the other doors throughout the house.
We are in love with our Schlage locks and are obsessed with the amount of peace of mind it has brought into our lives!
Have a great day, and don’t hesitate to ask me if you have any questions.
xoxo
Brooke.