How to Make Your Home More Efficient With Motorized Shades
Enhance Your Lifestyle with Custom Smart Shading Solutions
Ready for a technology upgrade in your New York home? Smart shading may not be the flashiest of options, but it offers an easy way to bring transformative change to your home. Motorized shades are easy to install and can help you enhance your safety, style and energy efficiency. With a plethora of design and control options, you can find a solution that makes the most sense for your family.
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Boost Security and Privacy
While they serve a significant stylistic function, shades and drapes are primarily there to enhance your safety. They let you manage when and where people are allowed to look into your home. Motorized shades make this function simpler in a variety of ways. With centralized, intuitive control of your shades it’s easier to ensure they’re closed when needed to protect your family’s safety and privacy.
If your motorized shades are not part of a home automation system, you can use a remote to access shades within the same room or use a smartphone to manage shades throughout your home. This is a great feature if you want to close a shades or blinds without being seen.
Incorporate Smart Scenes
To get the most out of your motorized shades, they should be part of a full automation system. This lets you create scheduled scenes that will help your family whether you’re home or away. Shades are primarily used in “Good Night” and “Vacation” scenes. In a “Good Night” scene, you can program all your shades to close at a given time every night, so there’s no risk of leaving them open overnight. A “Vacation” scene simulates activity in your home while you’re away to keep it from being targeted. Shades will open and close at given times throughout the day to make it seem like someone is there.
Reduce Energy Usage
Your shades also play a significant role in regulating your home’s temperature. In the summer, they help keep the sun out to make it easier to cool down your home. You can schedule shades to go down during the hottest times of the day or install photo sensors that direct them to close when a window is hit directly by sunlight. During the colder months, you can switch to “Winter Settings” to open shades whenever sunlight is available to help warm your space.
Meet Family’s Special Needs
Like most smart technology, motorized shades can also make your home more manageable for your most vulnerable family members. With control from a remote, it’s easier for elder family members to open and close shades without having to deal with heavy fabric or manual controls that are out of reach. By reducing the need for cords and wands, you also eliminate safety risks when it comes to younger kids or pets.
With a simple upgrade to your blinds, shades, and drapes you can bring a whole new level of efficiency to your home. Contact House Systems to see which motorized shades make the most sense for you.
