Elevating Your Everyday Life with Motorized Shades

What image does the term motorized shades conjure up in your mind? Many see themselves sitting on the sectional with a remote, lowering the roller shades to keep the sun from disrupting the big game or their favorite TV show. 

Simple, right? 

The reality is even better. Today’s smart home technology offers a level of convenience that’s genuinely hard to imagine until experienced. Harvesting daylight becomes automated. Catching every breathtaking sunrise and sunset becomes a part of your daily life. 

To say automated window coverings can transform your everyday experience is not an overstatement. Let’s see how it’s done.

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The Sunrise

As the sun is just about to rise above the horizon, your window coverings begin to open. When you wake, the first rays of light shine into your room, and you feel a sense of renewed energy. Why? 

Along with its beauty, natural light is responsible for the human body’s internal time clock. When the early morning sun enters our eyes, it prompts the release of serotonin, a neurotransmitter associated with wakefulness, energy, and happiness. When sunlight beams into your home in the early morning, it elicits that same response. 

The Gift of Natural Light

With automation software, your window shades adjust throughout the day—without even requiring  a button press or voice command. Light sensors and the time of day tell them when to lower to reduce the damage brought on by UV rays and when to rise to let in filtered sunlight. 

Your home is bathed in natural light. Breathtakingly beautiful, it also offers several health benefits. A few of these include reducing stress and anxiety, lowering blood pressure, boosting your immune system, and increasing joy. Pretty important stuff!

Motorized Window Coverings Redefined

Today’s luxury homes commonly come with floor-to-ceiling windows, skylights, and architectural windows. Hard to reach and difficult to manage, their window coverings, if they have them, remain open or closed throughout the day.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, around 75% of households never adjust their window coverings to take advantage of natural light or reduce their energy needs. 

Fortunately, today’s automated window treatments are customized to fit every type of window. They come in draperies, various style shades, blinds, and custom tension shades for diverse windows. Now, sunlight and darkness are managed to perfection.

The Golden Hour

There’s a period that arrives right after sunset that photographers refer to as the golden hour. It’s a magical time when the perfect lighting enables them to capture incredible photos. It offers diffuse light and yellow to red hues that many consider the best light of the day. 

With our busy lives, it’s easy to miss this magical moment. Motorized shades, however, remind us.

The Evening Unfolds

When darkness arrives, your shades close, ensuring you and your family’s privacy. For those who have integrated the latest landscape lighting that creates an enchanting oasis after dark, certain window coverings remain open, capturing the exquisite lighting as if framing a masterpiece. 

When it’s time for bed, you say ”Goodnight,” and every shade closes. 

Illuminating Your Home

Natural light is the foundation of your home’s illumination. It improves your well-being and reveals your home’s best features, drawing out the natural colors, textures, and finishes. Motorized shades manage this gift, enabling you to live your best life.

At Custom Media, we’re excited to share how the latest home technology is transforming lives. Check out our blog to stay updated on today’s ever-changing automation and home entertainment landscape.