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Adding Motorization to Windows

Adding motorization to your window treatments can make your life easier in so many ways. No more individually adjusting each shade before you leave the house. No more wrestling with cords to adjust heavy sets of blinds. Many motorization systems on the market are very basic, though. They’re limited to just a few styles per brand and in many instances, each style has its own method of motorization. This means you need multiple types of remotes to control the window coverings for your house. At The Shade Shop, we believe the best motorization system on the market is PowerView® Automation from Hunter Douglas, and here’s just a few reasons why.

PowerView® Automation near Grand Rapids, Michigan (MI), that allows you to operate your windows hands-free

Reason 1: More Window Treatments

While many motorization systems are only available on a couple of styles, PowerView® Automation is an option on the vast majority of Hunter Douglas window fashions. Roller Shades, Roman Shades, Honeycomb Shades–you name it, and Hunter Douglas can automate it! Best of all, PowerView® is available on several types of window treatments that no other company supports, including drapery and shutters. The Palm Beach™ Polysatin™ Shutters are the only motorized shutters on the market, and their innovative technology even allows you to still adjust the louvers by hand without damaging the motors. As a bonus, since the same PowerView® system works on many different styles of window treatments, you can control your window shades, blinds, curtains, and shutters all from a single source.

Reason 2: More Power Options

Most motorization systems come with only one type of power supply, whether rechargeable or hardwired. PowerView® Automation has varied power supplies so you can suit your power needs to each individual window treatment. Alkaline Battery Wands with a 1-year lifespan are the base power supply, but you can choose Rechargeable Battery Wands to easily keep your window treatments powered with either a charging cable or a charging base. C-Size Satellite Battery Wands with longer 3-year lifespans are available for harder-to-reach window treatments, and additional Satellite Battery Packs can be mounted nearby. An 18V DC power supply makes it easy to plug PowerView® window treatments in to nearby outlets for a maintenance-free option, and a hardwired 16-Shade DC Power Supply can be permanently mounted in your wall so you’ll never have to worry about your power supply again.

Reason 3: More Control

Window treatments with PowerView® Automation come with the Pebble® Remote for easy push-button control of your shades and can be wall-mounted to keep it from getting lost. The PowerView® App makes that even easier; control all the window treatments in your house without ever searching for the remote. With Remote Connect™, you can adjust your blinds from anywhere in the world. Our favorite way to control our PowerView® motorized window treatments is to integrate it with a smart home system such as Google Assistant, Apple HomeKit, or Amazon Alexa. That way you can simply use a command phrase to adjust your window shades without even lifting a finger.

Conclusion

Ready to add PowerView® Automation to your Hunter Douglas window treatments? Call us at (616) 459-4693 to schedule your consultation today! The Shade Shop is proud to have served Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the surrounding West Michigan area including Hollard, Grand Haven, and Spring Lake since 1935.