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Stylizing Your Home with Hunter Douglas PowerView®

Innovation gives us the ability to enjoy what's important in life. Getting groceries no longer requires a daily trip out to multiple shops, but only half an hour a week driving to the closest supermarket. It takes hours, not weeks, to travel across the world. With a click of a button, you can order almost anything and receive it in a day or two. You can always catch the newest episode of your favorite show because you can stream the entire season at once on your TV, tablet, or phone.

A tablet displaying the PowerView® Automation app on a round glass table with chairs.

Automated window treatments are just one example of many of how technology improves our daily lives. Motorization raises, lowers, and adjusts all your blinds, shades, and even shutters at once. Scheduled in tandem with the sun, they save your home energy. The motor also eliminates the need for cords, making them convenient for hard-to-reach windows and family homes.

Upgrading Your Home

However, motorized window treatments do more than make your smart home smarter. By providing more individualized light control, motorized window treatments allow you to enjoy your home's natural light unlike ever before. Make your smart home more stylish with these Hunter Douglas PowerView® Automation tips:

  1. Study how the light falls in your room. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west—eastern windows will get more light in the morning and less in the evening; western windows won't see much light until the golden hour. In the Northern Hemisphere, south-facing windows can receive light all day, while north-facing windows see the least amount of natural sunlight. Understanding what direction light will enter your room will keep it from becoming uncomfortably bright or depressingly dim. Look at how shadows play across your walls, too—you'll need to understand every facet of your room's natural lighting to get started creating personalized ambiances just for you.
  2. Schedule your favorite scenes. Once you understand the natural lighting of your rooms, set your blinds, shades, or shutters to adjust to your preferred positions. Raise your kitchen blinds in the morning and let the early light energize you and your day. Lower your shades with the sun just in time for truly beautiful entertaining. Shut your shutter louvers at 10:00 every night as a sign to wind down and get ready for bed. By scheduling your window treatments, you ensure your home's optimal lighting every hour of the day.
  3. Integrate with your smart home system. By integrating PowerView® window treatments with Amazon Alexa, Apple® HomeKit®, and Google Assistant, you won't need other operating options at your windowsill, keeping your windows uncluttered and your space clean and modern. The PowerView® Gateway allows you to operate more motorized shades at once, so you can effortlessly stylize your home with light.

Contact Us

At Blind and Shutter Gallery, we want homeowners to be inspired by their home's natural light. Call or contact us today for more information on how motorized shades can elevate both your window treatments and interior style. We are located in Nashville, Tennessee, and serve the greater Nashville area, including Murfreesboro, Franklin, Nolensville, Brentwood, Fairview, and Thompson's Station, TN.