Hello, hello friend! Can you believe there are only 62 days left in this year? My mind was blown when I realized that this year – which has felt like 10 seconds and a decade – will be over in a mere two months. Let’s make every single one of these 62 days count!
Things are heating up here at Vitalia Inc. This record-breaking year is set to go out with a bang! With lots of projects in the works and on the horizon, last weekend was all hands on deck. I had to recruit some very strong and capable assistants to help unpack.
Together we were able to get the job done (and have a little fun in the process).
Do you ever recruit your family to help with your processes? Do you have big plans for the last two months of this year? I’d love to hear about them. Send me an email at vita@vitaliainc.com – I read and reply to all my messages!
I’m really excited to share this week’s blog topic with you – motorized window treatments are a fantastic opportunity for interior designers to increase their profits in their design projects. Have you specified motorization for your projects before?
Motorized Window Treatments for Your Client’s Smart Homes
Smart home integration includes items such as cameras, door locks, doorbells, lighting…and window treatments! Smart window treatments or motorized window treatments can offer your client a host of benefits in terms of value, safety, convenience, and energy conservation.
Your clients may not be aware of all the incredible possibilities offered by motorized window coverings. This is a great opportunity to educate them on what can be done and all the great benefits they can experience. Here are a few of my favorite features of motorized blinds and shades.
Window Treatments & Smart Thermostats
Photo courtesy of Nest
Effective management of energy consumption is and will continue to be a growing trend among homeowners. Installing motorized shades, sheers, and blinds can be a part of home integrations to increase energy efficiency. With automated, hub based smart thermostat systems like the Nest®, Ecobee®, Lyric® , or Honeywell®, it’s easy to integrate your motorized window treatments. This allows you to control room temperature with window adjustments before using the HVAC system to heat or cool your home! Installing a sun sensor with your smart-home devices means your blinds can lower or rise on their own even if you’re away, effectively managing your home’s heat gain during summer months and heat loss in the wintertime.
There’s an App for That
Simply push a button to lower your shades at any time and even setup automated scenes to close your window coverings at the desired times daily. Battery operated, hardwired, app controlled, automated…the possibilities are endless and can be completely customized to your client’s needs and schedule. A true touch of luxury, remote and app-controlled shades allow your client to raise or lower all of their blinds or shades at once with a push of a button on a remote or through an app on their smart phone. Control privacy, give the illusion of someone being home when away, and increase home values when motorized window treatments are installed.
Alexa, Turn Off the Blinds
Does it get any more convenient than controlling home features by voice command? Many window treatments can be tied in to your Amazon Echo or Google Home device, just like your cameras, doorbells, and lighting.
Voice controlled blinds and shades are perfect for those hard to reach windows, offering unparalleled convenience – no need to worry about misplaced remotes! We’ll help you with selecting shades and blinds that are compatible with your client’s home automation systems.
Modern, energy efficient, and downright cool, motorized blinds and shades can add so much value to your client’s home. By including window treatments in your scope of design services, you can add significant profits to your designs. And when you choose a project management-based custom workroom like Vitalia Inc, you increase your profits without added stress! We will handle every aspect of the window treatment part of your project – from measuring to ordering to fabrication to installation – you’re completely covered by Vitalia Inc.
We understand that motorization can be challenging. What wires should be run? What do I tell the electrician? Which option is best: low voltage or high voltage? How is everything controlled? How are they charged? What about transformers? Am I going to blow my budget?
These and other questions may be preventing you from offering motorization as an option to your clients. Let us take this worry off your plate. We have taken proper classes. Learned a thing or two. Made our share of costly mistakes. And, quite frankly, have become quite good at this
At Vitalia Inc, we believe every design challenge has a solution, and each solution is unique and should be tailored to the designer’s needs. Vitalia, Inc. Window Treatments is a tech-driven, concierge-level, an all-inclusive fabrication, measurement, installation and project management company that specializes in servicing interior designers exclusively. Give us a call for your next project – especially motorization.
