Taming Overhead Glare with Skylight Shades Motorized for PNW Homes
Skylights are excellent additions to dark foyers, great rooms, and hallways. Plus, they add even more light to sunrooms and enclosed porches. But when the sun peeks through your skylight, it can cause glare to bounce off mirrors, windows, and devices on screens, reflecting into your eyes and making you want to flee the scene.
At The Blind Alley near Bellevue, Washington, we offer motorized window shades for skylights to quickly and effectively prevent glare and protect your interiors from UV damage that can cast a fading line across your interiors.
Learn why motorized skylight shades are your best option and how Hunter Douglas PowerView® Automation makes them perfect for PNW homes.
Hunter Douglas Duette® Cellular Shades: The Best Skylight Shades
At The Blind Alley, we recommend automated Duette® Cellular Shades for skylights. We have two main reasons:
Room Darkening Fabric
Hunter Douglas Duette® Cellular Shades are available in multiple room-darkening fabrics that actively make your room darker, in case the sun emerges while you’re watching TV or trying to sleep. You can also select semi-sheer fabrics that still allow you a glimpse of the outdoors, and for a significant amount of natural light to pass through, but the layer of fabric blocks the glare. You can choose different fabrics and opacities for different rooms or use the same thing throughout the whole home for a cohesive look.
Energy Efficiency
These cellular shades are our most energy-efficient solution. They’re made with pockets that fill with air to trap it and act like insulation, so you can reduce heat gain or loss. Duette® Architella® Cellular Shades are a honeycomb-within-a-honeycomb option that has pockets within pockets for an even more efficient design. This way, even when the sun is streaming in, you know you can keep your home cool (or vice-versa in the winter).
The Importance of Motorized Skylight for PNW Homes
The thing about Duette® Cellular Shades that makes them the best option for your skylight? Motorization. Skylight shades that are motorized mean you don’t need a ladder to close them. If you have a whole ceiling of windows, you don’t need to take the time to close them one by one, which is tedious even with a long telescoping pole.
Instead, Hunter Douglas PowerView® Automation actually works with your smart home device so you can connect it to your window treatments with the Powerview® Gateway®. You can set a timer, create voice commands, or set it up with sun sensors so that at the first ray of light, your cellular shades are already shutting, without you having to do a thing.
Contact us for Skylight Shades, Motorized for the PNW
Prevent unexpected glare in your home with skylight shades motorized for outstanding coverage without you having to do a thing. Motorization makes them safer and keeps your home more energy efficient.
At The Blind Alley, we’ll help you find the perfect fit and design with colors, materials, and opacity that fits your personality and your interior design.
Beyond shades, we offer Hunter Douglas blinds, shutters, and home décor fabrics. We can also repair your blinds and shades.
Request a consultation by calling (425) 644-7181 or completing our contact form. We proudly serve the greater Bellevue, Washington area, including Seattle, Lake Washington, Renton, Mercer Island, Newcastle, Issaquah, Carnation, and the surrounding areas.