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BEST SHADE CONTROL PROJECT | SILVER + BRONZE
Deep Pockets Keep Shade
Cassettes Under Wraps
SHADE manufacturers
have come a long way
in refining the cosmetics of
their motorized shade
cassettes. Still, the best look
for many homeowners is no
look at all. For this reason,
Advanced Integrated Control
went to great lengths to
ensure the hardware was
completely hidden.
Working closely with
Lutron, the architect,
carpenters, and homeowners
Advanced Integrated
Controls deployed pocket-mounted
roller shades
throughout most of the
house. " The pockets were
custom-designed by the
architect, allowing them to
blend with the surrounding
surface beautifully and required
Advanced Integrated
Controls to measure carefully
and precisely. If not, a miscalculation
could compromise
the architectural integrity of
the home.
Special accommodations
were also made in the office,
where the header height
above the windows was
modified to allow the Lutron
Palladiom shades to fit seamlessly
within each window
jamb. In the dining room, the
shades were also pocketed
into the jamb - not an
easy feat when dealing with
transom windows.
The clients can access and
control the shades quickly
and conveniently from an
Elan mobile app on their
smartphones, dedicated Elan
Systems Design
& Installation
Advanced Integrated
Controls
Bluffton, S.C.
Systems & Equipment
Lutron Palladiom shades * Elan
controls * Luxul network
touchpads, and by voice
commands. Simple enough,
but thanks to further programming
and integration,
the shades move up and
down automatically based on
the current outdoor temperature
and time of year. Via
this technique, the owners
can harvest warm sunshine to
help heat the house or block
out the sun to allow the AC
to run more efficiently. CE Pro
Better Late Than Never
home decided that the
motorized shades they
initially declined were now a
must-have. Willing to oblige,
Mozaic devised a design
that entailed the installation
of 15 motorized shades.
The secret weapon:
IT'S AN integrator's
worst nightmare:
Unexpected changes to the
agreed-upon game plan that
require breaking into the
sheetrock. Mozaic Audio
Video Integration faced this
dilemma when the owners
of a stunning mountainside
cepro.com
rechargeable lithium
battery-powered shade cassettes
to preclude running
new wiring behind the finished
walls. The clincher was
selecting fabric of the appropriate
weight, color and
opacity. The owners wanted
complete privacy in some
rooms, soft light filtering in
others. Large windows called
for ample fabric; others
could get by with less.
Precise measurement
of each window opening
was also key. Even with
the exclusion of wire, the
systems integrators at
Mozaic still had their work
cut out. They didn't want
the shade cassettes to look
or feel like an add-on but
a seamless, natural part of
the home design. Mission
accomplished, thanks to a
variety of color options and
availability of wireless, compact,
low-profile cassettes
from Screen Innovations
plus thoughtful, precise
installation.
They topped off the projSystems
Design
& Installation
Mozaic Audio Video
Integration
Madison, Ala.
Systems & Equipment
Screen Innovations rechargeable
lithium-ion shades *
Lutron Radio RA3 lighting
control * Google Home voice
control * Sonos audio *
Somfy TaHoma controls
ect by programming day and
night routines for the shades
to follow, enabling Google
Home voice control, and
integrating the shades with
the owners' Sonos music
system and Lutron lighting
system. CE Pro
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STEPHANIE JOHNSON
http://www.cepro.com
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