If you’re exploring ways not only to protect your home and its furnishings from the sun's rays but also to add value to your property and enhance its curb appeal, you’ll want to invest in exterior window shades for your home. Here’s why:

Topics: Electronics and Automation, Exterior Shades

Roller shades have been used in homes for some time now, especially for decorative window coverings. Motorized roller shades are considered more stylish as they accommodate a modern lifestyle with their enhanced operating mechanisms.

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Motorized shades bring many benefits to your home when it comes to both looks and usability. You may already know some of the great benefits Polar Shades’ motorized shades can bring to your home but what about those unexpected benefits you may have never thought about?

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You may already know Polar Shades manufactures superior window shades and is one of the country’s premier suppliers of exterior and interior retractable shades. Or that we’re a family owned business with the largest inventory of roller shade fabrics in Nevada. But there’s so much more we’d like to share.

Topics: Electronics and Automation, Blog, Fabrics

Motorized window shades offer unparalleled convenience, as you can open and close them with just the press of a button. At Polar Shades, we strive to make adding a new remote to your window shade automation system just as easy as pressing an existing remote’s button. In fact, all you need to do to add a new remote is press a few buttons. Here’s a step-by-step guide to the process.

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Our partner, Somfy Systems, is the largest manufacturer of tubular motors. Somfy-powered, motorized window shades give you a new view on life – and your home. Somfy's latest upgrade to its myLink™ app allows you to maximize the benefits of convenience, privacy, comfort and energy savings so you can operate your window shades with your favorite mobile device – whether you're parked on your couch at home or parked in a traffic jam 50 miles away.

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At Polar Shades, all of our products, including our motors, have been approved by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) for their superior quality and operations. This is an important safety feature we've worked hard to bring to our consumers. Other companies will use cheaper motors to save a few dollars but these motors can burn up and pose a safety risk to your home.

Topics: Electronics and Automation, Interior Shades, Exterior Shades, Retractable Screen Doors

Whether you are in the midst of building your dream home in Las Vegas, are remodeling your current Nevada home, or are simply in the market for new window treatments for one or all the rooms in your castle, consider choosing the very best in today’s 21st century blinds - motorized blinds! There are lots of benefits to investing in top-of-the-line motorized blinds for your home; here’s a look at 5 of them:

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Window shades come in many styles. They are as decorative as they are functional, which makes them the perfect choice for window coverings. Before you begin shopping for actual designs, interior and exterior alike, you need to decide on either the manual or motorized variety. There are pros and cons to each type of shade. Here are a few to consider:

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Like the throw rugs they can trip on, the outlets they can insert their little fingers into and even some of the toys they play with, window cords pose a threat to the safety of small children.

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