Discovering the Beauty & Benefits of Managing Natural Light Effortlessly
Consciously integrating natural light into homes is no longer just a trend; it’s a sought-after feature for modern living. It elevates your home’s beauty, capturing the essence of textiles, stone, and intricate inlaid marble. Colors ring true, and living spaces come to life.
Beyond enhancing interior aesthetics, natural light has a powerful effect on humans, positively impacting moods by triggering the release of “happy hormones” and improving your sleep-wake cycle.
However, along with the beauty and well-being, natural light creates some challenges. UV rays can damage the interior of homes, fading floors, furniture, and artwork. Direct sunlight also causes solar heat gain, increasing the demand on HVAC systems. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, over 75% of sunlight hitting standard double-pane windows enters the home and becomes heat.
Fortunately, there is a solution. It’s called smart shades.
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Energy Efficient, Sustainable Living
Motorized shades make it easy to manage daylight with one touch or voice command. Press a button and every shade in your home closes or rises simultaneously. This technology offers extreme convenience when sunlight begins heating up a room or the sun’s glare begins reflecting off your computer screen.
Automated shades also create a calm, comfortable living space during the hottest months of the year by automatically adjusting based on the sun’s trajectory. In the morning hours, they rise, letting in the beauty of diffuse, natural light. As the sun’s rays intensify and directly enter south and west-facing windows, these shades lower, protecting your home from harmful UV rays and solar heat gain. This reduces the pressure on your HVAC system, keeping your home cool naturally.
As the sun settles on the horizon, the west-facing shades open, ensuring you never miss another sunset.
Elevating a Home’s Beauty
Automated shades also add beauty in both design and functionality. Watching every window covering lower in perfect alignment creates a visual effect that’s quite captivating. With hundreds of fabrics in limitless styles, these window coverings align perfectly with your home’s design and each room’s use.
For instance, blackout shades are ideal in media rooms and bedrooms. Shades with sheer weaves let you retain your beautiful views. Even elegant draperies come in automated form.
And it gets even better.
Integrated with Smart Home Automation
When integrated with a centralized home automation platform, your many smart devices work together, responding to a changing environment. For instance, as the temperature heats up midday, the shades lower. In response, the light fixtures brighten in occupied rooms.
And on it goes, a smart home that improves energy efficiency, creating more sustainable living while enhancing everyday beauty and comfort.
As the premier choice for luxury homeowners, our in-house engineers, programmers, technicians, and designers ensure smart shades that align with your aesthetics while optimizing their automation to fit your lifestyle. The result is enhanced beauty, comfort, and convenience.
To learn more about smart shades and their limitless possibilities, contact In-Focus Systems.
