You may think the purpose of window shades is simple: to affect the amount of sunlight that comes into your home. That is what they do, but they also offer much more for your home and day-to-day lifestyle.

With the Southwest Florida summer coming up, you’ll want shades to bring lovely sunlight into your home but also help keep it cool. Did you also know they can protect your furniture and artwork? Here’s what you can do with motorized window shades and why they’re beneficial for you, your family, your Naples home, and your belongings.

No outdoor living space is complete without an outdoor entertainment system. Barbecues, pool parties, and dining alfresco may be on your schedule this summer, and there are solutions to make each of these occasions even better. Outdoor audio, video, and lighting can elevate every summer moment — from grilling with your friends to enjoying a cocktail by yourself. 

When designing and building your Naples home’s outdoor entertainment system, there are specific brands you can rely on to deliver top-notch performance. Here are three you should consider for your Florida home.

Home surveillance systems have been around for decades, and for just as long they’ve consisted of mostly the same components—cameras, sensors of various sorts, alarm panels, and storage for your recordings.

As the years have passed and home security systems have become more secure, all of these components have become progressively more sophisticated (many newer systems have cameras that benefit from machine learning and analytics to more effectively reduce false alarms or focus on surveilling key areas of your home), but the basics haven’t changed much.

However, there have been advances in other areas of smart home technology that have helped our customers in Naples, FL introduce one key component to their home surveillance system that improves it far beyond what traditional ones can offer—a Control4 system.

Controlling the light in your home means taking control of your mood, your productivity, your finances, and your safety—all major concerns for the modern homeowner.

Lutron has remained the industry leader in lighting control systems since they developed the first rotary dimmer switch in 1961.

That revolutionary invention, which allowed just a sliver of control over the brightness of a single room, has served as a launchpad for the development of a vast range of technologically advanced lighting control systems and services that are available to increase the convenience, efficiency, and security of your Naples home.