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Transform Your Outdoor Shades with Motorized Screens for Your Home

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Upgrade your space with motorized shades and screens that keep the bugs and sun away!

In the coastal town of Newport and the surrounding areas of Rhode Island, outdoor living is a part of daily life. From enjoying sunny afternoons to hosting evening gatherings, residents relish every opportunity to make the most of their outdoor spaces. However, pesky bugs and harsh sunlight can sometimes dampen your experience. Thankfully, motorized outdoor shades and bug screens offer an innovative solution, seamlessly blending elegance and functionality to elevate outdoor living to new heights. 

At C&T Systems, we can help upgrade your outdoor space by installing motorized bug screens and outdoor shades that blend in with your home’s aesthetic and deliver results.

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Embrace the Sophistication of Palladiom Shades Without Running Wires

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Learn How The Elegant Line Of Lutron’s Battery Powered Window Treatments Enhance Your Home

Shades are more than the final fit and fashion for your windows; they serve an essential function for your home. We are all aware that a room looks incomplete without something on the windows. Adding shades creates an inviting ambiance, transforming a room from stark and empty to a space that expresses you

In addition to providing an accent to your decor, window treatments help lower energy costs and create a sense of privacy. Lutron battery shades not only dispense with wires, but they are also available in a variety of styles and fabrics.

Read more below to learn why the Palladiom line of shades is a perfect fit for your smart home in Avon, CT, and surrounding areas. 

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Motorized Shades Improve Your Home With Beauty and Comfort

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Enhance Your Home, Improve Your Wellbeing And Save Energy

Shades put the finishing touch on a room; without them, they can feel sparse and unwelcoming. Window treatments add style, ambiance, and a sense of elegance.

Motorized shades provide more than fashion; they help minimize energy costs, protect your assets and complement your security system. Shades are also a vital component in utilizing daylighting techniques for more human-centric lighting. When tied to a smart home controller, a house can regulate itself, furnishing you with the luxury of comfort and convenience.

Are you curious about how automated shading systems can improve not just the look but the function of your home in Newport, RI and surrounding areas? Continue reading to find out more.

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Smart Home Technology Makes for A More Productive Home Office

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Working From Home Does Not Mean You Need to Sacrifice Quality or Comfort

Whether you are a remote worker veteran or were drafted over the last year, the trend toward work-from-home clearly shows some staying power. While the increased movement from in-office was well underway before 2020, many business communications platforms have made it possible long term.

A recent survey of top CEOs and business founders in Entrepreneur magazine indicated that they expected up to 70% of their workforce to be in the office two to three days a week or remain away from the office for the next three to five years. In addition, studies from Fortune magazine and business groups indicate that employee productivity remained consistent and, in many cases, increased markedly.

Are you ready to upgrade your Glastonbury, CT and surrounding area home office to a professional grade? An advanced smart home system enables you to communicate clearly, consistently, and securely. Learn more by reading below.

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How To Improve Your Indoor Air Quality with Pure365

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Live and Breathe Easier by Installing a Smart Air Purification System

How healthy is your home? You probably don’t know because, most of the time, the problems are invisible. This is especially true when it relates to air quality. You can’t see if your indoor air is impure. However, you’ll undoubtedly experience the effects: allergies, frequent colds, fatigue, and other health issues. Those unseen contaminants in the air, such as viruses, bacteria, and minuscule airborne particles, can make your home an unhealthy place to live.

When you have an air purification system in your home in Hartford, CT, or the surrounding areas, you’ll dramatically improve the air quality in your rooms. We recommend using a Pure365 air purifier. Read more to learn how this medical-grade purifier reduces indoor pollutants to give your home a clean bill of health.

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Why Lutron’s Palladiom Shades Are Perfect For Your Home

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4 Features of Lutron’s Beautifully Engineered Shading System

Window shades are both functional and aesthetically pleasing when you purchase the right products. There are many options available at your local stores, but none compare to Lutron Palladiom shades. Lutron motorized shades combine form, function, and automation to make your home in West Hartford, CT and the surrounding areas both beautiful and smart.

Get rid of your old dusty shades with cords and rods, and update to these new, smart shades. In this blog, we’ll highlight four features of the Lutron’s Palladiom shades that make them stand out from other shading systems you’d find on the market. As a certified dealer, we can help bring this innovative technology into your home.

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3 Ways Lutron Window Treatments Can Improve Your Business

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Add These Innovative Technology Solutions to Your To-Do List this Year

If you’re considering improving your business, window treatments may not be at the top of your to-do list. Unfortunately, that is the situation for many business owners in Rhode Island, and it’s an often-overlooked consideration that needs more attention in the modern workplace.

An upgrade of your business’s window treatments not only has the potential of making your establishment look smart and sophisticated, but it helps you save on commercial energy costs while also improving your employees’ workday.

Keep reading to learn three ways one of our favorite brands, Lutron, offers innovative commercial window treatments that will improve your Newport-area business.

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Is a Home Automation System Right for You?

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Explore the Advantages of Smart Technology

Home automation systems have been taking the Guildford, CT area by storm lately. As more and more homeowners upgrade their properties, you may be asking yourself if it’s time for you to dip your toes into the smart technology pool.

The truth of the matter is that smart home automation is not for everyone. That said, today’s modern platforms are incredibly easy to use and offer a wide range of benefits. Below, we walk through some of the signs that it’s time for you to embrace smart technology in your home. If, by the end of this article, any of the signs match your goals, then give us a call.

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Block the Sun, Not the View, with Smart Patio Shades

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Automate the Shades on Your Sun Porch in Stonington, CT

It may still be a bit chilly in Connecticut, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t too early to start thinking about your spring and summer plans. For Connecticut homeowners who love spending time outdoors, motorized shades are a perfect addition to your patio so you can enjoy nature without the annoying bugs or harsh glare from the sun. Our trusted lighting and shading brand Lutron has partnered with Insolroll to automate the shades on your porch or patio. Keep reading to learn more about this new smart home feature.

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Stay Warm This Winter with Lutron Motorized Shades

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Motorized Shades Help Insulate Your Newport, RI Home

We have talked a lot about the benefits of motorized shades, like saving energy and convenience. But there is another advantage of automating your window coverings, which is comfort. Believe it or not, shades can help regulate the temperature of your home, even in winter. The cold weather can put a big strain on your HVAC system, but there’s a solution. Motorized shades help insulate your Newport, Rhode Island property by regulating internal temperatures. In this blog, we’ll show you why smart shading is the perfect way to stay warm this holiday season.

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Top 4 Features of Lutron Motorized Shades

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Use These Exclusive Technologies in Your Danbury Home

Installing motorized shades in your Danbury, CT home has many benefits, like saving energy, time and money. Yet, there are many other incredible features of Lutron shades you may not know about. Their award-winning line of smart shades have wonderful features that can be used and enjoyed by everyone in the family. Keep reading to discover these top four features we love most. 

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Which Motorized Shades Are the Best for My New Canaan, CT Home?

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Window Treatment Ideas for the Connecticut Homeowner

Choosing an interior design style, paint color, or curtain pattern for a room can be a difficult process – especially if you have a hard time making decisions. Throw technology options into the mix and the decision making can get even more challenging. C&T Systems can help you make the right choice when it comes to motorized shades in your New Canaan, Connecticut home. Continue reading to discover which materials, manufacturers, and systems are the best.

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How to Install Motorized Shades in Your Connecticut Home

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Discover the Latest Features of Lutron Shade Control

Smart home automation is expanding in many ways, and that means you now have more options for every feature in your Farmington, CT home. When it comes to motorized shades, you also have more control than ever before, bringing you big benefits.

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6 Reasons Why You Should Put Motorized Shades in Your Connecticut Home

We partner with Lutron Electronics to install the best shading solutions for your every need. We’ll work within your budget, your space, and your personal preferences to design and implement custom shades. Read on to learn more about what we have to offer. 

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Six Fundamentals for a Fantastic Dedicated Home Theater (Part 2 of 2)

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C & T Systems Presents a Few More Essential Elements Needed for Your Private Cinema in Avon, CT

C & T Systems has all of the experience, knowledge, and tools necessary to construct a home theater that will deliver the best home entertainment experience you have ever had. In our previous post, we shed a little light on the importance of finding the right screens, optimizing audio and choosing sophisticated seating for your custom home theater.

In this go-round, we will highlight a few other elements you’ll want to consider to augment your room’s atmosphere.

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6 Reasons Why You Should Put Motorized Shades in Your Connecticut Home (Part 2 of 2)

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C & T Systems Enumerates on the Benefits of Automating Shades at Home

 

In our last blog, we showed you three benefits of installing motorized shades. They include adding beauty to your interior design, ensuring privacy, and increasing the value of your home.

This time, we’ll show you the next three reasons why we think automating your shades has such great value. So if you are living in the area of Glastonbury, Connecticut, you’ll definitely want to give this post a read. Adding such technology to your home will be worth the investment.

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6 Reasons Why You Should Put Motorized Shades in Your Connecticut Home (Part 1 of 2)

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Add Beauty and Comfort to Your Connecticut Home with C & T Systems and Lutron

With so many amazing features of smart home automation, you may wonder, “What is so special about motorized shades?” Believe it or not, there are many benefits to automating and installing window treatments in your Connecticut home around Hartford, Glastonbury, Avon, or Farmington.

In this first installment of a two-part blog series, C & T Systems shows you three of six different reasons why Lutron motorized shade control will enhance your life at home and on the go.

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What are the Benefits of Professional Lighting Control Design?

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C & T Systems has the premier solutions for lighting and shading in your Connecticut home

A properly designed lighting control system can make all the difference in a person’s home because there are so many benefits to installing a home automation system. For those of you in our areas of Hartford, Glastonbury, or Avon who are new to the smart home world, light control is the ability to regulate the level and quality of light in a given space for specific tasks or situations. Gone are the days of simply flipping a switch.

When you partner with C & T Systems for lighting and shading work, your controls will be tailored to your lifestyle, easy to understand, and have high-class function. Here are some fantastic features of a lighting control system and the reasons why they hold so much value.

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