Motorized Window Treatments

For the ultimate in convenience, luxury, and intelligent technology, almost all of our custom window treatments and outdoor shading solutions can be motorized. Motorization allows you to operate those hard-to-reach, numerous, or heavier shades with ease, either with the touch of a button on a remote, wireless wall switch, tablet, or smartphone app. Whether you want a full window of smart shades to use with your Google Home device or the latest Smart blinds, The Shade Shop is your one-stop-shop in Houston for all wireless and custom motorized shading. 

Shade automation also eliminates the need for any potentially dangerous pull-cords, making motorized window treatments an excellent child-safety measure. 

Our custom motorized shades, blinds, and draperies in Houston not only allow you to easily manage lighting and privacy, but they also greatly enhance home security by giving the appearance of an active home, even when it is vacant. Going on vacation? Automated shades can easily be programmed to raise in the morning and lower in the evening to give the illusion that someone is home. With a total home integration system, motorized window treatments can also be integrated with your security system and preset for positioning with your alarm.

Since window coverings manage heat gain and loss, motorized blinds and shades can significantly reduce energy costs by automatically raising or lowering at certain pre-programmed times of the day or in response to internal sun sensors.

Motorized window treatments can be achieved either through hard wiring or battery operation. To outfit your home with hardwired shades, our specialists will consult and collaborate with your team of architects, builders, designers, and electricians to ensure your project is specified properly – meaning that wiring is run to the precise part of the window opening that is needed and recessed pockets are created above in order for the shades to disappear completely.

Alternately, manufacturers such as Somfy, Lutron, and Hunter Douglas also manufacture motorized shades that operate by battery power, eliminating the need for costly wiring or sheetrock repair work. Battery-operated shades – whether roller shades, solar shades, woven shades, Roman shades, or honeycomb shades – are installed wirelessly and can be controlled anywhere in the room using a remote or smartphone app. Batteries can easily be replaced without having to take down and reinstall the shades. 

Our motorized window treatments, patio screens, awnings, and pergolas utilize motors and controls from worldwide leaders in home automation, such as Somfy® and Lutron®, praised for their ultra-quiet and ultra-powerful motors. Our custom manufactured and professionally installed smart shades may also be integrated into most common automation platforms including AMX®, Control4®, Elan®, Lutron®, OnQ®, Savant® and Vantage®.