Every shade we fit can be motorized. No cords, no reaching, and a whole wall of windows that moves together on one button.
Motorization is not a different product. It is a motor inside the same tube, in the same fabric, cut to the same measurements — which is why a motorized shade looks identical to a manual one with nothing added to the outside of it.
Rechargeable motors need no wiring. A charge lasts six months to a year and a half depending on use, and the motor lets you know when it is running low. Add a solar strip on a sunny window and it stays charged on its own. Hardwired motors are the choice for new construction or a renovation where the walls are already open.
A remote lives in a drawer and gets lost. A wall keypad sits where a light switch sits and never does. Most homes end up with both, plus the phone for the times you are not in the room.
Shades can be addressed one at a time, as a wall, as a floor, or as the whole house. A scene is simply several of those set to positions you like — morning, afternoon, evening — on one button.
Set to the clock, or to actual sunrise and sunset for this latitude, which drifts through the year the way the light does. Most people use it for the west wall in summer and forget it is running.
The whole range is available motorized — sheer, light filtering, room darkening, blackout, and solar screen — with the same cassette, Regency cornice, recessed pocket, and side channel options as a manual shade.
A shade you need a ladder for is a shade that never moves. Height is the single most common reason people motorize, and the one they regret leaving out.
Hand-operated shades on a long run never quite match. Motors stop at the same point every time, so the bottom bars read as one line across the room.
A schedule closes the hot side of the house at two in the afternoon whether anyone is in or not. On a Florida west elevation that is the whole argument.
What it actually looks like: nothing hanging, nothing to pull, and a run of shades that stops where it is told.
Most of what we motorize runs on Lutron. They have been making light and shade controls since the 1960s, and theirs are the systems still supported and still talking to whatever the house runs long after installation.
On installation day we program and test every motor, set up your scenes with you (one button for morning, one for night), and label each keypad so everyone in the house knows which button does what.
About LutronNot for rechargeable motors — there is nothing to wire and nothing to cut into. Hardwiring is worth it in new build or a renovation where the walls are already open, and we will tell you plainly which situation you are in.
It depends on how often the shade is used. In general, six months to a year and a half, and it warns you before it runs out. A solar strip on a sunny window keeps it charged.
Quieter than you expect — about the level of a fridge, for the few seconds it runs.
You operate them by remote, keypad, phone, or schedule rather than by hand. There is no cord and no chain, which is exactly the point in a room a child uses.
Yes.
Lutron and Somfy both integrate with the major smart home platforms. Tell us at the consultation what the house already runs and we will specify to match it rather than adding a second system.
The flattest, quietest treatment there is, and the one motorization suits best.
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Cuts glare and heat but keeps the view. On a schedule, it handles the west wall for you.
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Soft folds rather than a flat plane, and yes — these motorize too.
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