Experience Effortless Control of Daylight

Explore the Benefits of Motorized Shades

The window coverings in our homes perform many tasks. They enhance our home’s design, block the sun’s glare, and offer privacy and protection. They also tend to stay in the same position throughout the day. Our lives get busy, and only on the rare occasion do we take the time to raise or lower them manually. 

Motorized shades change that. These smart shades offer effortless one-touch and automated control, bringing the beauty of diffuse sunlight into your home while protecting its interior. 

Let’s explore the many benefits of motorized shades in Chesterfield, MO, and why they’re one of the most popular smart home systems.

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One-Touch Control

Now, you can manage your home’s daylight with one touch on a touchscreen, remote, or in-wall keypad. Is the sun shining directly on the TV? One tap lowers one shade or every shade in your home. 

But it gets much better. At Westco Security & Technology Systems, we partner with industry leaders in home automation and lighting control to provide our clients with the latest technology that makes life easier and more enjoyable. Two of those brands are Control4 and Lutron. Together, they make managing your home’s lighting effortless.

Automated Control

We'll get to know your lifestyle and create a uniquely designed system for you. We'll program the shades to automatically rise and lower based on the sun's positions, the temperature in your home, and preset schedules.

For example, many clients enjoy waking up to natural light in the early morning. We’ll program their bedroom shades to slowly rise as the day breaks, gently waking them with the first rays of the sun.

During the winter, south-facing shades rise to bring in the sun's warmth. In the summer, these same shades lower, reducing solar heat gain. Lutron also offers honeycomb cellular shades that provide a layer of insulation, helping keep rooms cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. 

When combined with lighting control, your home maintains the perfect amount of daylight and electric light. The shades rise and lower, letting in the diffuse light of the sun, and, in response, the lighting in your home dims. When the shades detect direct sunlight and rising temperatures, they lower and protect your fine art, furniture, and floors from the damaging effects of UV rays. In response, your lights brighten. Your home maintains the perfect environment without you having to do anything. 

Enhancing Your Home’s Beauty

Not only do these shades offer extreme functionality, but they also provide beauty that enhances your home’s design. These window coverings come in numerous styles and hundreds of different fabrics. Some options include elegant draperies, roman and roller shades, sheer horizontal blinds, and wood blinds. 

They also come in varying opacities, creating the perfect solution for different rooms. Bedrooms, for example, benefit from dual rollers. These provide sheer shades during the day that let in the diffuse light of the sun and blackout shades when it's time for bed, creating total darkness to help you sleep. When evening falls, all shades lower, providing privacy and peace.

Are you ready to experience the remarkable ease of living that motorized shades provide? To learn more about these high-end window coverings or to schedule a complimentary consultation, contact Westco Security & Technology Systems today.