Integrating Motorized Window Treatments into Your Home
There are many ways to make a home modern and convenient. Smart doorbells make it easy to be in the know, app-operated security systems give peace of mind, smart fridges provide insights into what you’re low on, and automatic coffee pots make your mornings a little better. Hunter Douglas wanted to integrate this type of convenience and ease into its products, which is why more and more of our clients are choosing their motorized window treatments.
Here’s why you will love adding PowerView® Automation or Alta® Motorized Shade systems to your home:
Motorized Window Coverings Add Convenience
Any modern investment in the home should bring convenience. With motorized systems from Hunter Douglas and Alta® Window Fashions, you can schedule your window treatments to operate according to your lifestyle or adjust them in real time with an App, a remote control, or your voice. Instead of getting out of bed to close your blinds, these systems will do it for you. Rather than manually operating your hard-to-reach windows, you can adjust up to 6 at once or individually, so you can get back to hosting or relaxing.
You can also enjoy this benefit by:
- Scheduling your blinds to open in the morning so you can wake to the morning sun.
- Adjusting shades remotely when away from home.
- Telling your motorized shutters to shut while you are on the couch watching a movie.
Motorized Window Treatments Offer Improved Energy Efficiency
Have you ever left for the office only to realize you forgot to shut your window treatments once you’re too far to turn back? Leaving your window treatments open while you are away during the summer and winter months can cause intense temperature swings. This can, then, lead to increased energy usage and higher energy bills toward the end of the month.
Another benefit of motorized blinds, window shades, and shutters is that they can help keep your home cool and shaded. During the summer, schedule your window treatments to close in the afternoon and open in the evening, after the sun has set, to keep your home cool. In winter, schedule your blinds to open in the afternoon to help your home warm up naturally.
PowerView® Automation and Alta® Motorized Shades can also improve energy efficiency when you:
- Close shades on south and west-facing windows during peak sunlight hours to reduce heat gain.
- Program different schedules by room to maximize natural heat and shade.
- Schedule your window treatments to open and close at specific times for consistent energy management.
Get Increased Security with Motorized Blinds and Shades
Leaving your windows open while you go to work or on vacation can leave your house vulnerable to prying eyes at best and security issues at worst. With PowerView® Automation, you can adjust your window treatments from anywhere in the world via the app. Even if you forget to close your shades, blinds, or shutters, you can rest easy knowing that you can manage them with the tap of an app.
You can also increase your home’s security with this system by:
- Scheduling your motorized shades to open and close throughout the day to make it seem like you are home.
- Closing your automated shutters when you leave for work and scheduling them to open when you come back.
- Programming your shades to automatically close at night and open during the day when you are awake.
Get Motorized Window Treatments Near Toledo, OH
Motorized window treatments do more than bring a cool edge of technology to your home. With PowerView® Automation and Alta® Motorized Shades, you can enjoy convenience, energy efficiency, enhanced security, and more. Whether you add a system to one room or throughout your house, you will immediately notice the difference between manually operating your window treatments and letting PowerView® or Alta® Motorized Shades handle them for you.
To learn more about this system or explore additional home design trends, be sure to contact us today.
We are located in Toledo, Ohio, and proudly serve Toledo, Holland, Perrysburg, Sylvania, Oregon, Millbury, Waterville, Bowling Green, Whitehouse, Maumee, Temperance, Lambertville, Curtice, Northwood, Swanton, Blissfield, Berkey, and Metamora, Ohio; and Riga, Michigan.
