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Benefits of Motorized Window Treatments

Motorized window treatments

Motorized window treatments

Smart-home technology has come to the world of window treatments, with programmable timers raising and lowering your blinds and shades at the perfect hours during the day when you’ll want more or less light in each of your rooms. With custom motorized window treatments, you won’t have to spend your valuable time going all through your home to lower blinds against the scorching sun that can raise your home’s temperature, and thus your energy costs when your air conditioner has to work overtime. Instead, your programmable motorized window treatment system does all the blind- and shade-lowering for you, creating a comfy environment and saving you a fortune in energy costs, especially when they work their magic while you’re away on vacation – which also adds safety to your home, making it look to the outside world like someone is in the house and thus deterring robbers from targeting your home. Read more »

Motorized Skylight Shades

Motorized Skylight Shades

Motorized Skylight Shades

Skylight shades are a great way to control and regulate the amount of sunlight and heat being generated by out of reach windows. Most people don’t think about installing skylight shades because they believe opening and closing them would be challenging (and irritating). But, with motorized shading control systems, skylight shades are more practical than ever! Read more »

Why You Should Purchase a Retractable Awning over Fixed Awning?

Posted: Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 | Filed under: retractable awnings, sustainable living, window treatments

The biggest reason to purchase a retractable awning over a fixed awning is because it’s retractable. Retractable awnings give you flexibility and can be retracted quickly at any time. Motorized retractable awnings allow you to retract the awnings at any second with the touch of a button or the flip of a switch. Fixed awnings don’t allow you to do this.

A second reason why you should consider a retractable awning over a fixed awning is its convenience in terms of weather. Retractable awnings allow you to adjust to any angle desired whenever you want. Depending on the level of the sun, you can retract your awning to the desired position. Depending on the amount of sunlight or shade you prefer, you can adjust your awning accordingly. If it snows or rains, it’s important to protect your awning by retracting it. If you retract your awning during snowstorms or heavy rain, there’s no chance it could collapse. Same thing with a windy day, retract your awning to be sure windy won’t take hold of your awning and destroy it.

Retractable awnings are great solutions for any home looking for light and heat control off the back (or even front) on their home. Installing a retractable awning instead of a fixed awning gives you flexibility if and when you ever want to move to a new location. A fixed awning is just that, fixed and requires quite a bit of construction to move. Take a walk through New York City or even the surrounding suburbs and you will see homeowners with retractable awnings all over.

Why Motorized Shades?

Posted: Wednesday, October 26th, 2011 | Filed under: modern window treatments, motorized window treatments, window treatments

Motorized shades allow you to operate your window coverings by remote control. Simplify your life by pressing a button to open and close your window shades. Not only do motorized shades simplify your everyday opening and closing of shades, but you can increase energy efficiency as well by setting a timer on your window shades. Open and close them at desired hours when the sun is bursting through your NYC Madison Avenue facing window or if you want to enjoy a spring breeze.

Aside from convenience, motorized shades provide the ultimate sophistication to your home by adding a clean look and feel. Designed based on simplicity, the straight lines add a nice sense to your room. Stop messing around with cords and wands and clean up your window treatments with an easy remote control.

In addition to look and convenience, motorized shades are practical for any window that is located in a hard to reach position. Sometimes large windows are positioned in the top of foyers where it requires a ladder to reach. Instead of bringing out the ladder every day or ignoring the hot sun blasting through the window, add sophisticated motorized shades.

Sometimes larger windows pose problems with more traditional window shades. Both tall and wide windows can be difficult to cover with window treatments, many times blinds become too heavy to open and close on larger windows. Other types of window treatments aren’t customizable. Motorized shades can resolve all these problems. Use motorized shades in your home for a sophisticated look and a simple functionality