Are motorized window shades worth it?

Using a little bit of trigonometry to block the sun while preserving the view. I get a lot of questions about our motorized window shades. They basically all boil down to: are they worth it? In short, yes. In this post, I’ll answer some common questions and help you decide if a similar system would be worth it for you. What shade system did you use? In our old home, had top-down/bottom-up (TDBU) shades throughout our house and really liked the combination of light and privacy. Since Hunter Douglas offered TDBU but Lutron did not, it made our decision easy. Do I have to prewire? Ideally. Since we have 40 shades, it’s nice to not have 40 batteries to charge, even if it’s only every year or so. We have batteries on our three door-mounted shades and hardwired the rest. If I was doing a retrofit installation, I’d use a system that can be solar powered like Hunter Douglas or Smartwings. We ran shade wiring to the top corner of each window frame: The wires all run to our utility closet,…