Window shades are an essential part of any home. They allow you to control the amount of sunlight that enters a room, provide privacy, and can even help insulate your home. Most standard window shades require manual operation – you have to walk over to the window and adjust them by hand. However, technology has provided a better solution: motorized window shades. In this blog post, we’ll explore some of the key benefits motorized shades provide over their standard, manually operated counterparts.
Easy and Convenient Operation of Motorized Window Shades
One of the biggest advantages motorized shades provide is easy and convenient operation. Your comfort lives on valuable time, and you don’t have enough of it to manually adjust the comfort level of your home’s shades.
With motorized shades from Sun Masters DFW, rather than having to go to each window to open and close the shades, you can adjust the light coming into your home with the simple push of a button.
Easy and convenient operation is a major benefit motorized shades have over standard manual shades.
Worried about your battery and shade convenience running dry? Our motorized window shades have you covered. Each shade motor is battery-operated and rechargeable. So, when your shades need more power, we’ve also simplified resolving that problem.
Automation and Scheduling
Another major advantage motorized shades provide is the ability to automate and schedule their use. Most motorized shade systems integrate with home automation platforms like Alexa and Google Home.
These communication opportunities allow you to set schedules to automatically raise and lower your shades at set times each day.
For example, you can schedule your motorized shades to open in the morning to welcome natural sunlight and help wake you up. Or close in the evening for privacy and insulation.
Automating and scheduling your window shades makes them far more convenient than manually adjusting standard shades day in and day out.
Increased Privacy
Motorized shades also provide increased privacy over standard shades. With the ability to control them remotely, you can instantly lower shades for privacy at the push of a button. No more running to the window if you want privacy from the neighbors.
They also allow you to automate them to close at set evening times. This eliminates having to go around closing every window shade manually at night.
At Sun Masters, we offer specific room-darkening shades that can be motorized and completely block the view inside your home from the outside. Our room-darkening shades also help reduce noise levels in your home and control the temperature.
While we’re on that subject, let’s look into it more!
Improved Temperature Control and Insulation
Whether you go with light filtering or room-darkening shades, it’s important to remember that proper window shading provides important insulation and temperature control benefits. However, we feel there are benefits motorized shades offer that make them a clear winner between the two options.
Standard shades might help insulate a room and control heat loss or gain to an extent. However, convenient control allows motorized shades to do an even better job regulating your home’s temperature.
For example, you can quickly lower shades midday during the summer to keep out heat and help reduce reliance on air conditioning. Or open southern-facing shades to let sun in and naturally warm your home during the winter while closing northern shades to prevent heat loss.
This level of quick, easy, and customized room-by-room temperature and insulation control is hard to match with standard manual shades, especially when you consider the option of being able to control these comfort settings remotely from an app.
Enhanced Safety and Security
With the ability to automate and remotely control your shades, motorized shades also provide enhanced home safety and security over standard shades.
Connecting motorized shades to smart lighting systems allows them to automatically open and close in patterns that mimic natural usage. This gives the home a lived-in look even when you’re out of town.
You also eliminate the need to manually open and close shades daily. This added convenience helps avoid potential accidents from climbing on furniture to reach tricky second-story shades.
Overall, motorized shades allow for safety and security enhancements not possible with standard manual window shades.
Choose Your Next Set of Shades with Sun Masters DFW
As you can see, motorized shades offer many benefits over standard manual window shades. Easy and convenient remote operation, scheduling, and increased privacy are just some of the reasons so many Dallas business owners and homeowners come to Sun Masters DFW for motorized window shades.
Our simple, quick installation will have your home feeling and looking great in no time. Contact us today to schedule your free consultation.