Keypads That Finally Match Your Interior Design

Crestron’s New Horizon 2 and Cameo 2 Keypads Give Interior Designers Real Control Over The Details

When you are designing a luxury home in Vancouver, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Whistler, or anywhere across Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, and the Sea-to-Sky Corridor, every visible detail matters. Light, texture, rhythm on the wall, the way a room feels when a client walks in.

Then someone asks where the lighting controls should go, and suddenly the clean elevation you have been refining is at risk of being cluttered by rows of plastic switches.

This is exactly the problem Crestron’s new Horizon 2 and Cameo 2 keypads are designed to solve, and it is why our team at Graytek is so excited about them. These are not afterthought devices. They are beautifully resolved design elements that finally bring control hardware up to the level of today’s modern interiors.

If you want to explore the manufacturer details, you can view the Crestron Horizon 2 keypad range at Horizon 2 Keypads and the Crestron Cameo 2 keypad range at Cameo 2 Keypads.

At a glance: why these new keypads matter for interior designers

Horizon 2 and Cameo 2 keypads give you control hardware that finally respects the design work that goes into a luxury home. Instead of generic plastic switches, you can specify control surfaces that feel intentional in the room and align with your material and lighting choices.

• A broad palette of materials, colours, and textures that can either disappear into the wall or read as intentional “jewellery” pieces.
• Minimal, decorator-style forms that sit comfortably in both contemporary and transitional projects.
• Highly configurable button layouts and engraving so each keypad can be tailored to the way your client actually lives.
• Smart backlighting and status indicators that elevate the nighttime experience and support circadian-friendly lighting design.

All of this integrates seamlessly into Crestron Home lighting and shading systems, which Graytek designs, engineers, and supports for projects across Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, and the Sea-to-Sky Corridor.

SEE ALSO: Explore Crestron solutions with Graytek

Horizon 2: premium materials that match your design story

Horizon 2 is Crestron’s flagship keypad line for luxury residences. The feel is solid, architectural, and tailored, with a faceplate that sits proud of the wall in a calm, uninterrupted rectangle. For designers, the story starts with finishes.

Horizon 2 is available in three finish types: textured, glass, and real metal. This gives you a consistent design language that can be tuned to each space, from quiet corridors to statement kitchens and feature stair halls.

Textured finishes

• White
• Black
• Almond

These are ideal when you want a clean, understated look that blends into painted drywall or millwork. The subtle texture keeps fingerprints under control and gives you a consistent, familiar surface throughout the home.

Glass finishes

• White glass
• Black glass

The glass versions read more like a piece of glazed hardware than a light switch. A single-piece glass faceplate gives you a perfectly flush, reflective surface that pairs beautifully with stone, polished plaster, glass walls, or high-gloss millwork. In the right setting, a black glass Horizon 2 keypad can almost disappear until it lights up in the evening.

Metal finishes

• Brushed brass
• Dark nickel
• Dark bronze
• Brushed black

The metal options are where Horizon 2 truly becomes a design object. These are real aluminum faceplates with tactile brushed surfaces, designed for spaces where a client expects the hardware to feel as substantial as the architecture. Brushed brass is warm and luminous, perfect next to stone countertops or natural oak. Dark nickel and dark bronze sit quietly in moody palettes, while brushed black gives a precise, modern edge alongside black fixtures.

Interchangeable trims and custom materials

Horizon 2 keypads are designed as a clean, modern control surface that can blend into a wide range of interior styles. With a choice of textured, glass, and real metal finishes in curated colours, you can coordinate the keypad with nearby hardware, wall finishes, and millwork so it feels intentional in the space rather than like an afterthought.

From a design coordination perspective, this is a major shift. Keypads stop being “white rectangles” and instead become a flexible element you can integrate into your millwork and finish schedules.

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Cameo 2: a new minimalist look with incredible configuration options

Where Horizon 2 reads as refined and architectural, the new Cameo 2 keypad line brings a softer, decorator-style form with an edge-to-edge, bezel-less face. The look is clean and modern, with a thin profile that complements Decora-style wall plates and designer outlets.

For many interior designers, the most compelling feature will be flexibility. Cameo 2 offers up to 137 different button configurations using field-replaceable buttons in multiple sizes and groupings.

• Use a simple two-button “Lights On / Lights Off” rocker in a guest powder room.
• Specify a vertical stack of labelled scene buttons in a great room.
• Combine small and large buttons to create intuitive groupings for shades, scenes, and audio.

If a space is reprogrammed later, buttons can be swapped without cutting into the wall, which protects your design from being compromised during future changes.

Colours and finishes for every palette

Standard Cameo 2 devices are available in four core colours, each with both smooth and textured options: white, black, almond, and grey. This makes it easy to match or complement wall colours, trims, and nearby outlets throughout the home.

• Smooth finishes pair well with glass, polished stone, and contemporary millwork.
• Textured finishes are excellent beside painted walls and matte fixtures, where a bit of surface grain feels more natural.

For projects that demand an elevated look, Cameo 2 also supports solid metal architectural faceplates, giving you another way to echo door hardware, faucets, and other metal details in the room.

Thoughtful lighting that supports your design

Both Horizon 2 and Cameo 2 take lighting of a different kind very seriously: what happens on the keypad itself. The way these keypads glow, dim, and provide feedback can either enhance or distract from your interiors, so Crestron has treated it as a design feature, not just a technical requirement.

Dynamic RGB and WRGB backlighting

Each button includes individually controllable RGB (Horizon 2) or WRGB (Cameo 2) backlighting, with more than 16 million colour choices. This allows us to match keypad glow to the room palette instead of being locked into a single LED colour.

• Use warm tones in the evening for a softer, more residential feel.
• Implement circadian-friendly scenes where both the room lighting and keypad indicators shift from cooler to warmer as the day progresses.

Subtle, intelligent feedback

Cameo 2 adds configurable dot and line indicators that can show system status at a glance: a soft bargraph that rises as lights brighten, or a small indicator that shifts colour when a security or audio scene changes. Built-in ambient light sensors automatically adjust LED brightness for day and night, so keypads are readable when needed and discreet when not. Horizon 2 can also adjust brightness based on ambient light, so the glow is always appropriate to the environment.

For interior designers, this means the night-time experience can be just as carefully curated as the daytime one. Corridors can be softly lit by keypad glow instead of harsh overheads. Bedrooms can have minimal, warm indicators that respect the sleep environment.

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Engraving that keeps the interface intuitive

Both keypad families support high quality custom engraving. Horizon 2 uses laser engraving on each button, with options for different languages and text treatments such as bold or underline. Cameo 2 is designed to work with Crestron’s Impress engraving tools, including text and icons that make it easy to understand what each button does at a glance.

This is more than a usability feature. Clear, consistent labelling helps protect the integrity of your design by reducing the temptation to tape up handwritten labels or cheat sheets once the client moves in. Every room has a control surface that looks deliberate and communicates clearly.

How Graytek brings design-first controls into your projects

At Graytek, we approach technology as another layer of the interior architecture, not an afterthought. Our typical process when working with interior designers and builders across Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, and the Sea-to-Sky Corridor is to coordinate early on keypad locations, layouts, and finishes so they support, rather than fight, your vision.

With Horizon 2 and Cameo 2, that collaboration becomes even more powerful. We can build keypad schedules that map specific finish types and colours to each room, aligned with your FF&E and hardware schedules. We can also use Horizon 2 metals or glass in feature spaces, then transition to textured or Cameo 2 keypads in secondary areas while maintaining a consistent design language.

Because these devices are part of the broader Crestron Home ecosystem, a single keypad can trigger layered scenes that blend lighting, shades, and audio. Your carefully considered lighting design is preserved, and clients enjoy a simple, tactile interface that reinforces the quality of the home.

Perfect for today’s modern homes

Modern homes in our region often combine expansive glazing, open plans, and highly detailed finishes. That makes old-style plastic switches feel even more out of place. Crestron Horizon 2 and Cameo 2 offer a way to bring the control points up to the same standard as the rest of the design, without compromising usability or flexibility.

For interior designers, this means you can confidently specify a smart lighting and shading solution that respects your aesthetic priorities. For homeowners, it means the technology that runs the home feels as refined as the home itself.

Graytek has been designing, installing, and supporting Crestron lighting, shading, and control systems for luxury residences across Metro Vancouver and the Sea-to-Sky region for over two decades. These new keypad lines fit perfectly with our design-first philosophy and give us even more ways to align technology with your creative vision.

If you are working on a project where wall controls have always felt like a compromise, Horizon 2 and Cameo 2 are worth a closer look. When you are ready, our team is here to help you integrate them into your next home in a way that feels effortless, cohesive, and beautifully resolved.