Enhance Your Modern Home with Motorized Window Treatments

Motorized window treatments are useful throughout the home, but some windows benefit from automation more than others. Large groups of shades can be adjusted together, hard-to-reach windows no longer need to be handled manually, and schedules can take care of regular changes in light and privacy throughout the day.

For homeowners in Missoula and the Bitterroot Valley, starting with the rooms where those features will make the biggest difference is also a practical way to add motorization over time. Here are the rooms where motorized window coverings tend to make the most noticeable difference.

Living Rooms

Open living spaces tend to have the largest windows in the house, and they're also where families spend the most time throughout the day. Motorized window treatments in a living room or great room let you schedule shades to rise in the morning and lower as the sun moves across the room in the afternoon, cutting down on glare during movie nights or video calls without anyone getting up to adjust anything. 

In a home with an open floor plan, motorization also makes it easy to control several large windows together as a single group instead of managing each one separately, which saves a lot of back-and-forth on a room with more than two or three windows.

Bedrooms

Motorized shades give you more control over bedroom light without requiring you to adjust each window before bed and again in the morning. With PowerView® Automation, compatible Hunter Douglas shades can follow schedules you create, including schedules based on sunrise and sunset.

Duette® Cellular Shades are one of our most popular options here. Their cellular construction adds insulation at the window while giving you a range of light-control options. Pairing them with motorization also makes tall bedroom windows or treatments behind furniture much easier to operate. For rooms with several windows, the treatments can be grouped so they move together instead of being adjusted individually.

High and Hard-to-Reach Windows

Stairwells, sunrooms, and skylights are where motorized window treatments tend to earn their keep the fastest, since these are the windows homeowners are the least likely to adjust by hand in the first place. A skylight shade above a vaulted ceiling or a window at the top of a stairwell often goes untouched for months at a time without automation, even when it's letting in more heat or glare than the room needs.

Motorizing these windows means they finally get adjusted as often as any other window in the house, without anyone needing a ladder to do it. A Bitterroot Valley sunroom benefits the same way, since a scheduled shade can keep the space from overheating during the hottest part of a summer afternoon while still leaving it bright and usable the rest of the day.

Dining Rooms and Kitchens

Dining areas and kitchens can see major changes in sunlight from one part of the day to another. A breakfast area may get strong morning sun, while a dining room with western exposure can become much brighter later in the afternoon.

Motorized shades give you a way to account for those changes without leaving the treatments in one position all day. You can schedule them around periods of direct sunlight or adjust them when needed from a remote or app. If several windows surround the dining area, grouping them also keeps the controls simple.

Home Offices

A home office needs comfortable light, but the window treatment also has to work with the way you designed the room. Graber® Roller Shades come in a wide range of colors, patterns, textures, and opacities, giving you plenty of choices beyond basic office shades.

They can also be motorized, which is useful when direct sun starts hitting your computer screen. Instead of leaving the shade closed all day, you can adjust it from a remote, phone, or compatible voice assistant as the light changes. Graber Motorization also supports schedules if glare tends to become a problem around the same time each day.

Choosing Motorized Window Treatments near Missoula, MT

Whether you're motorizing one hard-to-reach window or planning a whole-home system, The Blind Guy of Missoula can help you figure out which rooms will benefit most and which motorization system fits your budget and your existing smart home setup, from a single remote-controlled shade to a fully scheduled, voice-controlled home.

Contact The Blind Guy Missoula today to get started with motorized window treatments near Missoula, MT, and let us know which rooms you'd like to tackle first.

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