Manage Daylight and Privacy with Lutron’s Elegant Smart Shades

Motorized Shades Offer Elevated Luxury and Effortless Control of Daylight

There’s something exquisitely beautiful when we walk into a home with sunlight streaming through the windows. The beauty of natural light softens the boundaries between nature and the home’s interior, providing warmth, energy, and golden illumination. 

Unfortunately, this same exquisite light brings with it damaging UV rays that can harm our home’s interiors. To minimize this effect, we tend to lower the shades when direct sunlight enters and leave them closed throughout our busy days. Ultimately, we miss out on the many benefits of natural light, including increased energy, an enhanced sleep-wake cycle, and improved moods.

Motorized shades change all that. At r:home, we partner with Lutron, the world leader in automated lighting and daylight control. This brand has led the way in continuous innovations in smart window shade technology, now offering styles fit for every home in over 1,400 fabrics. 

Let’s look at how these shades transform homes in Western Springs, IL, offering effortless control of daylight while enhancing a home’s design.

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The Perfect Solution for Every Room

Lutron’s luxury motorized window coverings include elegant draperies, roller and roman shades, Venetian blinds, horizontal sheer blinds, and tensioned or cable-guided shades custom fit for unique architectural windows or skylights. In addition, their Palladiom line elevates a home’s design with modern sophistication, while honeycomb cellular shades offer an additional layer of insulation, keeping homes cooler in the summer and warmer in the warmer. 

Lutron also offers varying opacities, including blackout, privacy, and sheer. The sheer fabrics let in filtered sunlight and retain the view of the beautiful outdoors. Blackout shades are ideal in bedrooms and media rooms, spaces that benefit from total darkness. We can also utilize dual rollers that offer two different materials for one window. 

Beautiful Control

With one touch on an elegant in-wall keypad, touchscreen, remote, or via voice control, you can open or close one or every shade in your home. Thanks to the brand's patented Intelligent Hembar Alignment technology, the shades raise and lower in quiet, perfect unison, creating a beautiful look along a row of windows.

These window coverings can also be programmed to automatically raise and lower based on the sun’s direct rays, temperature, and preset schedules. For example, your shades can rise at sunrise and lower just after sunset. Direct sunlight also triggers Lutron shades to close throughout the day, protecting your home's fine art, furniture, and floors. 

When integrated with your home automation system, you experience one-touch and automated control of your shades, lighting, climate, entertainment, and more. Tap the “Good Night” button on the touchscreen by your bed, and the lights dim, the shades lower, and the doors lock. In the morning, your bedroom shades gradually open, waking you with the first morning light.

At r:home, our team of designers and automation integrators use their 20-plus years of experience to create beautiful, customized spaces that enhance a home’s functionality while providing effortless control of daylight. To learn more about motorized shades or to schedule a complimentary consultation, contact r:home today.