6 Ways Motorized Window Treatments Solve Life’s Problems
Imagine your bedroom solar shades raising open to wake you with the sunshine in the morning. Picture your roller shades transitioning to different scenes throughout the day or on-demand at the push of a button. Envision your living room drapes sweeping closed to cut down the glare in your media room.
At first glance motorized window treatments may appear to be an extravagant novelty, but there are some serious advantages for every home. Their sheer convenience is matched by their home security benefits, but they offer many other features as well that delight the homeowners who install them.
Child Safety Is Paramount
Motorization means no operational cords for pets or curious children to get tangled in. Also, you’ll be able to better protect your furniture, upholstery and wall art from fading by having the shades close automatically during the sunniest part of the day. While it’s understood that taking sun safety precautions is important outside, few people realize they can sustain sun damage indoors, too.
Boost Your Home’s Value
Green features that improve a home’s efficiency, while maximizing functionality are always desirable. Also, home automation is becoming increasingly popular, which means installing motorized window treatments will not only help you save on your bills and make your life easier, it will also make your home more valuable when you are ready to sell. See what other projects can also increase the value of your home.
Make Your Space Work for You
While motorized window treatments can’t actually make your home larger, they can make all the spaces in your home more functional. This is perhaps even more valuable! A living room that doubles as a home theater? A bedroom that is pitch black at night but lets the sun in just in time to wake you up gently? Motorized insect screens that make your porch an enjoyable outdoor space? Motorized window treatments make it easy for the spaces in your home to do double duty, with just the touch of a button. And that’s just the indoor spaces!
Excellent for High Windows
Do you have high windows that you can’t reach? Motorized window shades are perfect for out-of-reach windows, allowing you to still have control over light. Because motorized window coverings are controlled by a remote, you can control it from where it’s convenient for you, whether it’s on the couch or from your bed.
Life Just Got Easier
Your household may be chaotic, but smart devices are here to make life a whole lot easier. Having these systems in your home make it easy for you to enjoy automated lights, shades, even music at the touch of a button or with a simple command. This technology was invented to make life easier for you.
Conserve Energy at the Windows
Motorized window treatments, when properly integrated with a smart home control system, can help you to save a significant amount of money on your monthly energy bill. In Southern states such as Florida, and South Carolina, it’s possible to save as much as ten percent.
How does this work exactly?
By closing and opening shades at the appropriate time you can change the rate at which your house stores and releases heat. During the summer months closing shades during the brightest parts of the day reduces the amount of solar energy entering through your windows. It also reduces heat transfer through the windows themselves. This can have a dramatic impact on the internal temperature of your home. The result is that the air inside the house remains cooler with having to run the air conditioning as often.
In the winter months the shades can trap heat in your home during the night, and open to allow more sunlight in during daylight hours. The result is a significant energy savings.
