Control Your Outdoor Environments and Extend Your Living Space with Home Automation and Outdoor Shades

We’re blessed to live in an area that boasts some of the best hiking and skiing in the nation. And at the end of a long weekend spent outdoors or after a day in the office, there's nothing better than coming home to your outdoor oasis and relaxing in a bug-free, climate-controlled space. In this, the final of our three-part series on home lighting automation and motorized shades, we’ll look at how outdoor shades can extend your living space in Park City, UT, and the surrounding areas and create the favorite room in your home.

An Extension of Your Home

While it’s wonderful to experience a night under the stars and in the fresh air, sometimes those evenings are cut short due to dropping temperatures and the arrival of Utah’s many infamous mosquitoes. The same can be said when you’re enjoying your outdoor patio during the day, and the Utah sun causes friends and family to head indoors to cool off for a bit.

This is where the beauty and usefulness of outdoor motorized shades make a tremendous difference. Today’s outdoor shades create a completely sealed-off living space, keeping the warm or cool air in and the insects out while still maintaining your beautiful views of the great outdoors.

Two of our favorite manufacturers that create outdoor living spaces are Lutron and Screen Innovation.

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Creating a Space for Outdoor Enjoyment

Screen Innovations received CEDIA’s coveted Best Product Award in 2021 for their new Zen 2 outdoor motorized shades. Zen 2 was lauded as the industry’s first décor-minded motorized shading system for outdoor use. The system also received accolades for its technical components, customizable motorized cassette, and choice of fabrics.

It quickly transforms patios, decks, and gazebos into beautiful living spaces with a design that utilizes box, roll, or pocket cassettes in nine powder-coated colors. These cassettes can also be custom painted to blend perfectly with your space.

These unique outdoor solutions can be attached with zipper tracks, which are ideal for pest and bug control. Their stainless-steel cable guide systems keep the shades secure even in light wind and are perfect for homeowners concerned with privacy and keeping the sun at bay. When stronger winds begin to blow, the anemometer automatically raises the shades.

Creating Scenes for Ultimate Control

When combined with Lutron lighting and your home automation system, you can experience the ultimate home management. We’ll program preset scenes that align with your lifestyle and daily routines. For instance, if you entertain outdoors, we can program an “Outdoor Dining” button. One touch on your touchscreen, remote, or keypad, and your outdoor patio and landscape lights will set to the perfect hue and temperature. The gas firepit ignites, and the shades raise or lower to the ideal level your entertainment playlist begins streaming through your home and yard.

At Show & Tell AV Solutions, we pride ourselves on delivering customized solutions that define the ultimate in smart home living. To learn more about outdoor solutions and home automation or to schedule a complimentary consultation, contact Show & Tell AV Solutions today.