Updating your old home can be pretty overwhelming, especially when you consider how much work is involved. But after considering the benefits of living in a modern home, there's a sense of satisfaction considering all the work you put in.
Motorized window coverings are among the interior décor ideas that directly impact your home's overall outlook. These automated blinds are sleek, convenient, and long-lasting, hence their popularity in modern home settings.
Here are four incredible ways that these motorized window shades and blinds add a modern touch to your home.
1. Convenient Push-Button Operation
For most modern homes, convenience is an invaluable asset. Modern technology utilizes automatic control to help create convenience and comfort. As such, you can control motorized blinds, shades, and window coverings remotely without touching them.
You can also set a schedule through an app on your smart phone that opens your blinds at daybreak and closes them in the evening. If you're at home watching TV, you can push a button to close off the motorized window covering and reduce glare from the outside light.
Also, motorized window blinds have no manual cords that might influence the appearance of your windows. Your home remains visually appealing and blends inwell with the outlook you're after.
2. Cohesion With Smart Home Devices
Smart homes continue to set the standards for modern homes. Virtual and electronic assistants ensure effective home automation to suit every need.
However, innovative home technology isn't just about how a specific device works. The idea is to have these devices work seamlessly together for better home efficiency. Thankfully, motorized window blinds blend perfectly with other elements in a modern smart home, unlike traditional blinds.
Cohesion with third-party smart systems means that your motorized window blinds integrate with thermostats, voice assistants, and automatic light systems. For instance, your smart home system can sense high temperatures in your home and close the motorized window shades instead of turning on your air conditioning.
3. Automation of Your Home Security
Security is an essential aspect of an ideal modern home setting. Most modern homes benefit from the security offered by motorized window blinds and other forms of innovative technologies.
Besides preventing passerby from peeping into your home, motorized window blinds can discourage burglars from breaking into your home when you're not around.
You can control your motorized shades and blinds remotely at any time of day, even if you're miles away. With your blinds drawn during the day, anyone might think you're still home. At night, you can remotely close your motorized blinds and trigger your automatic lighting system to come on. A burglar is less likely to break in if they think there's someone in the house.
4. Light Control and Efficiency
Natural lighting is among the immediate impact factors for modernizing your home. Most older homes don't have enough natural light getting through the windows.
These homes have to do with single lighting fixtures placed strategically in different rooms. You will have to foot the extra utility costs from the lighting bills.
However, with motorized blinds, you can always open them and let in as much natural light as you'd like. Additionally, you can set your blinds to open only at specific times of the day for added lighting efficiency.
Natural light also brings out the colors from your interior décor more clearly to give your home that extra modernized feel. Moreover, you won't have to pay more for utility bills since you'll have your lighting fixtures turned off during the day.
If you're interested in modernizing your home with motorized window blinds, roller shades, and coverings, contact
Sylvan's &Phillip's Drapes &Blinds today. We will work with your home's design and give you a free in-home estimate of what to expect.
