Motorized Shades: Are They Worth It?

Our translucent fabrics allow you to still see out of your windows even when they’re lowered. Their unique design prevents others from seeing in during the day and still protects your home from the harsh sunlight through. It’s also highly reflective to minimize the heat and harsh sunlight from coming into your home. For privacy at the street and sky still in the room, see bottom-up shades.

All our shades help you cut down the heat into your home, or total solar energy. Solar energy consists of infrared light, visible light and ultraviolet light. All Lutron shades cut down the UV light and visible light, meaning your home runs cooler and costs less to maintain temperature. Depending on how hot your home gets in the summer, shades could eventually pay for themselves!

You know what people do when they have most of their windows covered by manual shades? They end up rarely moving them, and end up leaving them in a single position all year round. It’s just too much work to adjust all the shades in their home at the optimal times.

Motorized shades take all the pain out of adjusting shades and makes controlling them easy. Instantly turn your Family Room into movie night, or lower your privacy shades at the press of a button.

Alternatively, SoundVision can program your shades to raise and lower can automatically on a schedule or based on the weather. Your shades can lower automatically when the sun is harshest, and raise when it leaves. You can even schedule your bedroom blackout shades to open at the perfect time to help you wake up naturally in the morning.

Some windows are too large or inaccessible to manually raise and lower a shade over. Alternatively, some windows are above head lever! If you have two windows stacked on top of each other, two motorized shades can lower independently to cover each window. Or if you want to lower the shades on a window by a staircase, a motorized shade makes that easy. You can even cover your skylight at the press of a button!

Because motorized shades don’t need a chain to change their position, they have the flexibility of coming in a few unique styles such as our Palladiom shades. For those who don’t even want to see the shade roller, our recessed shades hide the shade mechanism in the ceiling. When these shades are raised, they don’t leave any indication they exist! But at the press of a button, you get full window coverage.

Find yourself getting drowsy when it’s bright out? With manual shades, you have to go to each shade and yank the chain until all your windows are covered. They take a while and can be laborious. By the time you’re done, you won’t even feel drowsy! With motorized shades, you just press a button and all your desired shades lower. You can raise and lower them without waking or disturbing anyone (opposed to the loud sound of yanking the chains on each shade).

It’s hard to get lost in a movie when the sun is putting glare all over your screen. Or if the scene is dark and its bright out, it can be hard to make out the details. With motorized shades, you can press a button and completely block out the sun Darkening a space can accentuate your media system, but that’s a laborious task with manual shades. With motorized shades, you can have your blackout shades roll down for a movie theater feel and enjoy your movie!