Bring the Wow Factor to Your Design Projects with Motorized Shades
Your Clients Will Love Automated Window Treatments
As a design professional, you intuitively understand the importance of keeping up with the latest trends for your worldly and knowledgeable Hamptons clients. You also tend to add your own personal touch and flair to your projects, something for which you stand out and are sought-after by discerning clients.
Your attention to detail shows in your work. You work with builders and trades to customize an electrical plan to the nth degree to ensure all the lighting and integrated technology blends with the carefully conceived and executed interiors. When it comes to window treatments, you know how to blend form and function to preserve beautiful water views in the Hamptons while providing enough protection from the New York summer sun. You can add another custom arrow to your design quiver with a feature your clients are sure to love – motorized shades. Keep reading to see how they add the crowning touch for your Hamptons clientele.
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THE LUXURY OF AUTOMATION
What’s stylish about cords, pulls, and other manual controls for window treatments? For heavier drapes and large shades, manual controls can be hard to operate and prone to breaking. If your client has small children, dangling cords can also be hazardous playtoys.
When you choose motorized shades and window treatments, no cords or other controls detract from the beauty of the window's view and the design. Quiet, powerful motors handle opening and closing or lowering and raising window coverings. In hard-to-reach locations like clerestory windows and skylights, automated shades are a boon for controlling sunlight where manual controls are impractical.
Your clients can choose from a variety of ways to manage their windows and natural light. A wall-mounted keypad can raise or lower one shade, a room, or a whole houseful of window treatments. If clients are smartphone-centric, they can use their personal device with an app for seamless control. Or, if hands are occupied, a voice command can execute all the same directives.
SETTING THE SCENE
For more convenience and luxury, integration with a home automation system like Control4 and Savant lets your shades operate in tandem with smart lighting, HVAC, and wellness features to set the right ambiance for any activity at home. Your clients can easily program a "Wake-Up" scene that gradually opens bedroom shades and fades up lights for a gentle start to the day. An "Entertain" scene can draw shades at just the right level to allow for afternoon sun and views while shielding the heat of the sun's rays. At bedtime, the shades and window treatments can all be drawn on a schedule or on command from various devices.
THE PRACTICAL FACTOR
While one-button scenes and convenience are sure to impress your clientele, there are the purely practical aspects of motorized shades to appeal to the left brain. Motorized shades can keep a Hamptons home cooler in summer and warmer in winter using automation to let the light in and keep it out at the right times, saving on energy costs. Security is always a priority, and windows that can be covered on command make it easy to keep out prying eyes. Plus, motorized shades can be an integral part of a smart security system, where you can operate the shades on programs that mimic activity when you’re home is unoccupied, keeping would-be trespassers guessing.
Want more ideas on how motorized shades put the finishing touch on your projects? Connect with our team by filling out our online contact form to schedule a free consultation. We look forward to working with you.
