What Are Smart Home Curtains?

Our homes are our castles, our safe havens, and there’s nothing quite like closing the door on the world outside after a long hard day at work, drawing the curtains and cosying up on the sofa to relax and unwind.

We’re also very lucky these days to have a lot of technology at our veritable fingertips, all of which can be used to excellent effect in all sorts of ways. Homes are increasingly being transformed into smart hubs in their own right and automation is big news where interior design is concerned in the 21st century.

While many of you out there have probably already invested in the likes of motion-activated lighting systems, voice-activated speakers and so on, what you might not have yet considered are smart home curtains… but you may well find that these are something of a game changer, making your homes even more welcoming and luxurious, without much effort at all.

Now, they may seem like something of a novelty, but you’ll find that these automated window treatments bring with them a raft of associated benefits beyond the level of privacy you’ve come to expect from traditional curtains.

Before now, to have these curtains installed you’d need to enlist the services of a specialist company, which would have to custom build a track to the exact length of your window, before coming over to attach it to the ceiling.

But, thankfully, technology has come a long way in the last 50 years or so and now you don’t have to worry about the process being lengthy, complicated and expensive. Now, there are smart curtain options to suit every budget and every interior design scheme out there, so you can have the window treatments of your dreams with no trouble at all.

In terms of the benefits you can expect to see once you’ve had your new curtains installed, you’ll likely find that home security is one of the biggest of them all. 

You can’t always guarantee that you’ll be home before nightfall and you don’t want potential intruders to think there’s no one home. You can easily get around this by using the app on your smartphone to close the curtains, even if you’re miles away from the house!

And let’s not forget about the convenience factor. There’s an awful lot to be said for being able to shut the curtains without having to get up and if you have restricted mobility, you’re sure to thank these curtain systems even more.

There are also systems out there that allow you to use voice commands rather than touch to open and close the curtains, making it even easier to keep the house cosy at night and to wake up with the sun in the morning.

If you’d like to find out more about this kind of smart tech and how you could use it to your advantage at home, get in touch with the Pret A Vivre team today.