Tips From The Top

We’re super excited that New York Times Wirecutter writer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy recently recommended some of our favorite Lutron smart window shades and blinds as some of her top picks in this category.

Smart shades and blinds move automatically – they can extend, retract, and tilt according to pre-set specifications, saving energy costs and providing additional security.

Jennifer knows what she’s talking about. Not only has she written and reviewed smart home tech for a long time, she’s also lived in a DIY smart home, getting first-hand experience with the products. She spent more than 600 hours with directing testing of shades and blinds, and two years living with them.

We’ve worked with Lutron products for years, and we know how happy our clients are with the results. So it’s no surprise that a first-rate smart tech reviewer and writer would choose Lutron, too.

Jennifer’s top pick overall was Lutron’s Serena Shades. “…They work flawlessly, are the fastest and quietest shades we tested, and are compatible with all the popular smart-home platforms.” Also, she noted, they look great. This has been our experience, too – we’re longtime fans of these shades, and we hear similar comments from our clients all the time.

For smart home enthusiasts who prefer blinds over shades, Jennifer recommends Lutron’s Serena Smart Wood Blinds. They feature a “natural light optimization” option that adapts automatically to the sun’s position throughout the day, meaning your interior space maintains balanced light with minimal glare, all day long. The Serena Smart Wood Blinds are custom-made to order in eight colors. We fully integrate them with Lutron’s smart home ecosystem that you control with the intuitive Lutron app. You can pre-set the blinds to open and close automatically at specific times or with “Scenes” that can also include audio, video, and interior lighting options.

Smart blinds and shades from Lutron offer a whole lot more than excellent aesthetics and lighting control. The right window treatments can provide you with better ways to easily manage the heating and cooling effects of natural light coming into your home throughout the day, all year-long. They can improve your home’s security, too, as pre-set functions can be arranged and changed from the app on your smart phone no matter where you are, at any time.

As a worldwide leader, Lutron and its lighting solutions offers more than 15,000 energy-saving products, from dimmers to entire lighting management systems, sold in more than 100 countries. In the U.S. alone, Lutron products save an estimated 10 billion kWh of electricity, or approximately $1 billion in utility costs per year.

To learn more about how Lutron smart window blinds and shades can enhance your home’s interior lighting, save energy, and improve home security, call us at Jackson Hole AV. We’d love to discuss the possibilities.