Elevating Your Home’s Interior While Minimizing Effort
Managing a home’s natural light and privacy became incredibly convenient with the advent of motorized shading. Tap a remote or touchscreen and adjust one or every window covering in your Dayton, OH, home.
Wake to shades that rise with the dawn. Watch as they automatically adjust during the day, protecting your home’s interior from direct sunlight while bringing in the beauty and health benefits of natural light. In the evening, when it’s time to retire or you’d like some privacy, say, “Good night,” and every shade lowers.
So, one wonders, considering the easy and elevated lifestyle they provide, why hasn’t everyone done away with manual window treatments? Let’s find out.
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It’s All in the Name
For many homeowners, it’s the wording that keeps them from experiencing this life-altering technology.
“Motorized shades” conjures up, well, motorized shades—basic roller shades that don’t blend in or align with everyone’s interior design. Homeowners want to keep their elegant draperies in the living room and their Roman shades in the bathroom.
The good news is that they can.
At Beacon Audio Video Systems, we partner with Lutron, the global leader in lighting control. As an industry leader, they source textiles from world-renowned manufacturers across the globe. They also come in varying opacities, from sheer to blackout. The result is over 1,000 various fabrics to choose from in eight styles, including the following:
- Shades: Roller, Cellular, Roman, and Tension
- Draperies: Pinch Pleat and Ripplefold. Lutron combines its motorized drive tracks with the material of your choosing to ensure the exact complementary window covering for your décor.
- Blinds: Wood and Horizontal Sheer
From a Designer's Viewpoint
At Beacon, our designers and automation experts consider not just your décor, but also how you’ll use a space, the window’s orientation to the outside world, and its exposure. The goal is to blend aesthetics and functionality, providing the ideal look while optimizing natural light and privacy at the correct times.
Draperies have long been associated with elegance, with sheer materials offering a lightness that moves effortlessly with the breeze. If you love lush fabrics and classic designs, this might be the right fit for you.
Roller shades, characterized by sleek lines and the ability to disappear when raised, are often a good fit for homes that have adopted a modern or contemporary design. These shades are also ideal for layering with curtains or using dual shades, which combine two fabric options, such as sheer and blackout, onto one unit.
Custom tension shades offer the ideal solution for hard-to-reach architectural windows and skylights, providing effortless control over these previously unmanageable windows.
Integrated with Smart Home Automation
When integrated into a smart home automation platform, you can manage multiple systems with one touch, setting the scene for any occasion. Tap ‘Dinner’ and the lights, shades, and music come together to create the ideal ambiance.
When you leave for vacation, press the “Away” button to ensure your lights and shades continue operating as usual, creating the illusion that you’re home and protecting your property in the process.
At Beacon, we combine effortless living with intelligent design to create smart homes that exceed our clients’ expectations. To learn more about the many options in motorized shading, contact Beacon today.