Imagine waking up in the morning with your blinds open, your lighting set to your preferred brightness and your favourite morning radio station on at the right volume.
With Smart Home accessories such as automated window coverings, it鈥檚 easy to bring the benefits of convenience, energy efficiency and child safety into your home.
鈥淥ur products create the ultimate convenience, using a remote to control them or having your shades scheduled to raise or lower at a time of day,鈥� Dustin McConnell, sales manager for Budget Blinds of Victoria, says.
鈥淲e can link your window coverings to other things that include lighting or sound, so if you鈥檙e trying to create a certain feeling at a certain time of day, it鈥檚 easy to program what you want.鈥�
Automated window coverings are shades that are motorized. Rather than having a cord or a hand draw, the shades are controlled via remote, phone, or by a schedule that has been programmed on an application.
Automated shades can work as a perfect solution for high, hard to reach windows.
They also offer a great degree of energy efficiency, by keeping the cool out and the heat in, or by reducing heat inside a room on a hot, sunny day.
鈥淛ust having the shades down can really make a difference in your heating bill,鈥� McConnell says.
鈥淲e can also get the shades to work with your weather.鈥�
Smart shades can be programmed to close any time the temperature rises above a set number. Shades can also be programmed with a time zone so they will tilt with the sun, ensuring that harsh light is always blocked out.
鈥淵ou never have to adjust your blinds. They鈥檒l do it for you,鈥� McConnell says.
Based on its success with the product, Budget Blinds is a Platinum Dealer of LUTRON, the worldwide leader in smart home technology, to offer unparalleled convenience in powering your smart shades and blinds with the touch of a button. With LUTRON鈥檚 whole-home wireless automation, Budget Blinds shades and blinds open and close at the touch of a button, or at a pre-selected time of day or night, giving you effortless control of your smart shades and blinds.
Budget Blinds also offers an exclusive Smart Home Collection, which gives you total control to program a variety of home lifestyle settings perfectly suited to your needs. Motorized window treatments allow you to control and schedule the positioning of your window coverings for enhanced, on-demand privacy. Cordless blinds provide an additional level of safety for children and pets.
Budget Blinds supplies and installs custom window coverings, shades, drape shutters, and just about anything else that covers windows.
鈥淲e鈥檙e really built on providing solutions to the client based on their needs for sun control, privacy, or insulation,鈥� McConnell says.
鈥淚t鈥檚 our job to make it easy for our customers.鈥�
Budget Blinds of Victoria鈥檚 showroom is located at Quadra and Fort streets and serves the entire Greater Victoria Area.
Getting started on a custom home window covering solution is easy.
鈥淭he first step is to contact Budget Blinds and we鈥檒l schedule a time to go through the options with you and really find out what you鈥檙e trying to achieve,鈥� McConnell says.
For smart shades, Budget Blinds can help find a solution for any level of comfort with technology.
鈥淚t sounds complicated and some systems are, but with the new technology, it鈥檚 pretty amazing how easy it can be,鈥� McConnell says.
鈥淪ome people are more techie than others and we鈥檒l introduce them to the technology and leave them to it. Other people will tell us exactly what they want and we鈥檙e happy to program it for them. Whatever the customer needs, we鈥檒l provide for them.鈥�
The health and safety of Budget Blind鈥檚 customers is always top priority. During COVID-19, the company is adhering to enhanced health and safety guidelines.
In addition to the automated shades, Budget Blinds carries a wide range of non-automated products.
鈥淚f someone is on a budget but they have a few high windows they can鈥檛 reach, we have some basic automated systems, all the way up to super high tech systems,鈥� McConnell says.
鈥淭here are lots of options in-between and it鈥檚 really our job to find the system that best fits our customers for their needs and their budget.鈥�
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