Best Motorized Blinds with Lutron Shades

Window shades often get overlooked when it comes to interior design, but upgrading your window treatment to automatic blinds will easily add convenience, energy savings, and a more sophisticated look and feel to your home. Automated blinds are a luxury that is also useful and good for home security. The benefits are truly endless. 

The smart shades industry has put the spotlight on Lutron, for consistently delivering effective and reliable smart home technology. They are the industry leader in smart shades, providing a range of different options that work with any interior design.

Difference between Blinds vs. Shades

Before we dive into Lutron's offerings, let's first clarify the difference between smart blinds and smart shades. Smart blinds are hard window treatments that have either vertical or horizontal slats, which come in a variety of options such as wood, plastic, metal, or a composite material. Where automation comes into play here, is the angle of the slats that can be customized to bring in or shut out light based on the position of the sun or a set schedule. Vertical blinds are gathered to the left or right to fully expose the window, while horizontal blinds are pulled up and down. 

Smart shades on the other hand, are usually made of fabric. They move up and down to block out light and bring privacy to your home. For the sake of simplicity, we’ll be referring to smart blinds and smart shades interchangeably in this article.



With so many options of electric blinds, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with options, colors, and designs. When you also have to consider integration to your existing smart home systems like Alexa or Google Assistant, the choices can get overwhelming. 

For custom shades, Lutron offers dozens of colors and textures to go with any type of interior design. You can hide the roll with fabric or metallic fascia and opt to power your smart blinds through battery, hardwire, or cordless manual. 

You can choose between three light filtering options - blackout, translucent, or sheer. 

Lutron smart shades can be controlled in three ways using their Lutron app, smart remote, or voice assistants such as Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant. The Lutron app offers plenty of features such as window scenes and a natural light optimization setting for smart blinds that automatically change with the movement of the sun. You can also take further advantage of your existing smart home systems to use voice controls and integrate with your smart thermostats. You can connect them with a Lutron Smart Bridge, which can be utilized with Lutron Caseta smart dimmer switches as well. 

Lutron’s endless customization options will allow you to work with essentially any type or size of home. All offerings of their motorized shades will help you manage natural light in order to provide you with convenience, privacy, safety, and plenty of energy savings. 

Honeycomb Shades

Lutron’s Honeycomb Shades adds elegance to your home as well as superb insulation properties. The honeycomb like cell design of these smart shades keep the room cooler as well as holding heat in when necessary. The pleated design comes in single or double-cell shades. Both have insulated gaps that will complement your HVAC system and save you energy and money. The double-cell shades are built with a two-pleat layer, so the insulation effects will be doubled as well.

Whether you want to enjoy the outside view and allow sunlight in, these smart shades will easily pair with your smart home automation to give you convenient automated control and energy efficiency. 

Cable Guided Shades

Cable Guided Shades are controlled in non-vertical installations and are motorized to keep your smart shades in place as you open doors to enjoy the outside breeze. This allows for even angled windows to be motorized and easily automated to your liking. 

Tensioned Shades

Similar to cable guided shades, tensioned models can be operated fully horizontally for your skylights and special windows. These models have superior coverage, minimizing all light gaps around the window fabric. 

Roman Shades

You can’t go wrong with classic Roman Shades from Lutron. With the same variety of styles and colors, Roman shades’ special feature is the layered thick and durable fabric material that creates an elegant appearance. 

Lutron’s Roman shades also have an additional reflective backing that aids with insulation, which will help retain heat from escaping while blocking out hot sunlight. The multiple layers in this type of shade will require a motor system to aid in the movement of the layered blinds with the fabric. 

Roller Shades

Lutron’s most popular roller shades are offered in a variety of colors, styles, and materials. Depending upon your preference, there are different shades of transparency for enjoying natural sunlight while blocking it out completely for more privacy. Imagine a beautifully synchronized operation of all your interior shades, raising and lowering in unison for the perfect balance of sophistication and beauty. 

Roller shades will pair beautifully with any interior design thanks to its minimalist presence. Based on the fabric and style of choice, you can determine how much light can pass through these shades. From sheer, to translucent, and then blackout shades, the opacity is customizable to your needs. 

You can choose from battery-powered to wired, and its motor-encasing design will seamlessly complement your home’s interior design. 

Wood Blinds

If you prefer a more natural interior look, Lutron’s wood blinds can be customized to appear painted or stained naturally. 

Adjustable tilts with each wooden blade will create the perfect angle for different amounts of light to filter through the room. These are only available through a wired system that will give you quick and precise adjustment for all your windows. 

Horizontal Sheer Blinds

Sheer blinds come in a variety of fabrics and colors to complement and enhance any room. These are a sophisticated decor solution that will allow you to filter light and enjoy the outside scenery, while providing sun control and privacy when needed.

Drapery Systems

If you prefer the traditional look of drapes, Lutron offers a diverse range of styles such as ripplefold and pinch pleat. These can be customized to accommodate even curved windows and are of course motorized and automated for precise control. Lutron’s Kirbe system lifts vertically to give you a full view of the outside scenery. 

With an expansive array of customizable features, Lutron shades are easily the best choice for motorized shades. They are high quality blinds that will bring elegance to your home and impress any crowd. 

The installation process is simplified using our professional technicians to help you install and manage your new motorized shades. Contact us today for a no-obligation, free design consultation and estimate. Motorized blinds will add instant value to your home. So what are you waiting for?