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Soleil® Why Shades?
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SOLEIL® HOME SHADING AMENITIES INCREASE HOME RESALE VALUES
Today’s architects and builders continue to design expansive window walls that take advantage
of breathtaking urban and bucolic landscapes. Unfortunately, inhabitants of spaces not protected
by shading systems experience discomfort from direct sunlight. Additional homeowner inconveniences
may include annoying glare on entertainment centers, and UV damage to interior building materials
and furnishings.
Why shades versus verticals, blinds, or shutters?
Many decorators may recommend louver type window treatments that may be opened for view,
and partially closed for solar protection. Unfortunately, when these louvered window treatments are
partially closed for protection, you are losing a great portion of your view to the outside. Partially
closed blinds also create annoying shadow banding on TV screens that often creates eye strain. There
is a growing awareness among top interior designers and lighting designers to offer clients Soleil’s
visually transparent automated window treatments that preserve your view to the outside, while
providing a diffused evenly filtered natural light illumination, free of shadow banding.
Professional interior designers are separating themselves from the decorator crowd, by educating
their clients on how today’s intelligent design projects blend visual design criteria with convenient
lifestyle technology™ shading, UV protection, and energy conservation. Scientific studies have
determined that the human beings benefit from exposure to natural light. Soleil® Designer Roller
Shade systems preserve natural light illumination, reduce energy consumption, protect interior
furnishings from UV damage, in addition to inviting nature’s comforting color palettes indoors
as visually soothing design elements.
Today’s homeowners are personalizing their home environment with home automation shading
systems that interface with today’s popular light “scene” dimming controls. Now, homeowners can
enjoy the benefits of natural light illumination and protection offered by Soleil® shading systems,
and seamlessly automate the process of supplementing natural light illumination with artificial
lighting controls. Soleil® offers motorized shading systems equipped with IQMLC™ Intelligent Motor
Control modules that interface with any lighting control or home automation system, which can be
personalized to optimize the shade alignment and balance between natural light illumination and
artificial energy consumption based on time of day. These personalized shade control settings create
shading “scenes” for drama, privacy, glare control, and UV sunlight control…or completely retract
when not in use. Your shading systems can be adjusted via home lighting controls, wall switches,
wireless Universal learning remotes, 24 hr timers, solar sensors, home automation touch panels, or
through internet [IP addressable] home PC’s.
Soleil® Designer Roller Shades are available nationally through authorized Soleil® dealers in a myriad
of manual and motorized configurations, ranging from single roller systems to DoubleShade systems,
and are a valuable resale amenity for both residential and commercial applications. Double Shade
systems are increasing in popularity, as they offer the best of both worlds in one compact bracket
design… Sun screen shadecloth on one roller, and room darkening opaque shadecloth on the other.
As residential family rooms morph into multi-purpose environments, the DoubleShade bracket allows
for both natural light illumination, or room darkening for home theater entertainment. Many shade
manufacturers offer upgrade accessories such as SnapLoc fascia, or room darkening side channels,
which reducelight leaks, and enhance the home theater experience.
Another unique aspect of the Soleil® roller shade and PanelTrak™ program is the company’s ability
to custom ink jet print in custom colors, advertising logos, slogans, photographs, or any colorful
graphic provided in digital form. Inside surfaces of shades remain neutral in color, while exterior
views to the street can take on a monumental statement, such as towering athletes featured by
sporting goods retailer Gadzooks during the Salt Lake Winter Olympics. In-store graphics on functional
sun screens provides solar protection, monumental back drops for creative branding messages, and the
ability to circumvent stringent ordinances against size of advertising images, as these are actually
functional window treatments. Custom ink jet printing also provides interesting possibilities for
designing custom room partitions or window treatments that may utilize design themes and motifs
that compliment other interior furnishings.
Soleil® Designer Shadecloths are actually high quality textiles woven in the USA, that resist mildew
and sun rot. The company offers exclusive designer shadecloth collections, such as the award winning
Faux Naturals™ woven woods, and natural linen looks that compliment today’s natural interior materials
and furnishings. Sun screen weaves are available in varying weave densities, ranging from room
darkening Blackout ShadeCloths with side channels for enhancing the home theater experience, 0-2%
open translucent weaves for privacy and light filtering illumination, 3-5% open for preserving the
view to the outside while protecting against UV damage, 10-15% open for areas that don’t get direct
sunlight. The stain resistant yarn fibers, and sealed edges of these innovative textiles make them
completely washable, fade resistant, and long lasting when compared to traditional window
treatment textiles exposed to direct sunlight.
Today’s advancements in lithium battery technology now enables Soleil® to offer homeowners our new
EasyUp™ Battery Powered roller shades that eliminate all wiring and wall damage. These innovative
mid-sized motorized shades are ideal for retrofit applications, where installing wiring is not possible.
Additional motorized shading systems feature RTS™ wireless remote controls, which greatly reduce the
complexity of wiring, and allow for easy installation of large motorized shading systems for
residential, commercial, or retail projects. In the past, walls had to be marred, by running new
lengths of wires throughout. These innovative RTS™ shade motors have radio antennas built into
the motor. RTS™ wireless wall switches, RTS™ wireless remote controls, and new wireless touch screen
controllers communicate shade control personalized settings directly to the motor. Entry level home
automation convenience can be attained via Universal remote controls that offer you RF wireless
control of your shades, home A/V systems, light dimming controls, home security, and
HVAC systems.
Creating scenes in the today’s electronic home environment means you can choreograph exciting
shade motion alignment and lighting moods in a variety of personalized configurations. Automated
shading solutions are the latest prestige home amenity that protect interior furnishings from the
damaging effects of direct sunlight, conserve energy, preserve maximum view to the outside, and
increase your home resale value.
