Types of Motorized Interior Shades

Larry Baltazar • January 15, 2021

Types of Motorized Interior Shades

Privacy, convenience, comfort, and protection, motorized interior shades have a lot to offer you and your home or business. Several types of interior shades are available in a variety of styles and colors to fit every lifestyle, decor, and budget.

What Are Motorized Interior Shades?

As you probably expect, motorized interior shades are what they sound like — shades for the inside of your home or business which are motorized for convenience, security, utility savings, and flexibility. They can be easily adjusted with a remote control or from your phone, tablet, or laptop, offering full control from wherever you are. While of course, you can adjust shades on demand, they can be programmed to open, adjust, and close at whatever times you'd like.


Even better, motorized interior shades can be customized with your specific preferences, for example, a "Good Morning" setting can raise shades halfway in the bedroom to make it easier to get up, or a "Nighttime" setting can lower shades at dusk each day. Create a "Wake Up" setting to raise the blinds in kids' rooms to help wake them up for school in the morning!

Types of Motorized Interior Shades

Two popular styles of motorized indoor shades, blackout and roller shades, are distinguished primarily by the amount of light each style allows to pass through. 

Best for keeping a room darker, blackout shades are popular for bedrooms, media rooms, and home theaters where you want to block most of the light out for better sleeping or viewing.

Roller shades work best pretty much everywhere else — keeping your home or office well-lit while reducing the annoyance of overly bright light and the damaging effects incoming UV light can have on your furnishings and belongings.

At Nextgen Multi Media, motorized shades are one of our specialties. We have the expertise and years of experience to create an ideal shade system for your home, as a standalone setup or integrated into a home automation system. Contact us today to learn more.

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