Motorized Blinds for Swansea, MA Homes

Why Swansea Homeowners Ask Us About Motors

Some windows are simply hard to reach: high over a staircase, behind a deep kitchen counter, across a whole sunroom wall. Motorized blinds in Swansea, MA solve that with a press of a remote or a wall switch, and Window Works measures each window in your home, helps you choose the blind or shade, and has our own team install it and show you how it works.

Swansea houses have plenty of windows like that. Down by Mount Hope Bay, the cottages of Ocean Grove and Gardners Neck often have sunrooms and glassy rooms facing the water. Hortonville’s farmhouses have tall windows and sometimes high gable windows. Ranches built after the war beside Route 6 have broad front windows where a large shade is heavy work to lift by hand.

• Motorized blinds and shades
• Remote and wall-switch operation
• Measured at the house, then fitted and set up by us

Where Motorized Blinds and Shades Help Most

Remote control

Raise or lower a shade from your chair, your bed or across the room, without getting up to reach it.

Wall switch

A switch on the wall, like a light switch, that runs the shade from the doorway.

High and tall windows

Windows over a stairwell or in a two-storey room, out of reach by hand.

Sunrooms

A room with glass on every side, where walking round to each shade soon gets old.

Bedrooms

Lower the blinds from bed at night and raise them again in the morning.

Hard-to-reach windows

Above a window seat, a tub, a deep counter or a piece of furniture you would rather not lean over.

Motorized Shades and Blinds, Room by Room

Most houses do not need every window motorized. The best results with motorized blinds in Swansea, MA come from picking the windows where a motor genuinely makes life easier, and leaving the rest to work by hand. Here is how we think about it, room by room and house by house.

Bay-facing rooms and the afternoon sun

Rooms on the water side of the bayside cottages catch hard afternoon sun, and the bay throws extra glare back in. The sun moves round, and the shades that need lowering change through the day. With a remote in your hand, you can bring down the shades on the sunny side from wherever you are sitting and raise them again when the light softens, without crossing the room to each window.

Salt air near the shore affects fabrics and finishes, so the blind or shade itself still needs choosing with care. We can steer you to a material that suits a room by the water, and the motor simply makes it easier to use.

Short windows set high on the wall

Lots of the older cottages have windows that are wider than they are tall, placed up near the ceiling line. Those can be awkward to reach, especially over a bed or a built-in cabinet. A motorized shade on those windows means no stretching and no step stool. There is also little room above the glass for a headrail, so we check the space at every window when we measure and choose a shade with a compact top.

Tall farmhouse windows and gable windows

Out in Hortonville, the older farmhouses often have tall, traditional windows and, in some, a high window in a gable end or over a stair landing. Those top windows are often left bare because covering them by hand is such a nuisance. A motorized shade lets you finally dress them, and run them from a switch on the wall at the foot of the stairs.

Wide windows in the Route 6 ranches

A typical Route 6 ranch has a broad picture window in the living room. A single large shade across a window like that can be heavy to raise by hand, and a long cord is untidy. A motor takes the effort out of it, and the shade lifts evenly every time.

Sunrooms and walls of glass

A sunroom can have a dozen windows or more. Covering them all by hand, morning and evening, is a chore, and in practice shades in sunrooms tend to stay in one position all day. With motorized shades, the room is easy to manage: shade it in the heat of the afternoon, open it up when the sun has moved on.

From Your First Call to the First Press of the Remote

You hear from us at every step, right up to the moment the shades are hanging and running as they should. A typical order looks like this.

1. Ring the store or use the form, list the windows you are thinking about, and book a free quote.
2. A specialist visits to measure each window at the house and asks how you would like to run the shades, by remote, by wall switch or both.
3. You choose the blind or shade style, the fabric or slat, and the colour, from samples brought to the house or on display at the showroom.
4. A quote arrives, set out window by window.
5. Each blind and shade is built to the sizes taken on the measuring visit.
6. Our installers fit and set up every one, then go through the remote and the switch with you.

Remote or wall switch

A remote suits a room where you sit and want to adjust the light without getting up: a living room, a bedroom, a home office. A wall switch suits a room you walk into, such as a sunroom or a stairwell, because the shades can be raised or lowered as you come through the door. Some rooms benefit from both: a remote by the bed, say, and a switch by the bedroom door for when you walk in. We will ask how you use each room before suggesting one.

No cords to tangle

Motorized blinds and shades have no lift cords hanging beside the glass. That keeps the window tidy, and it means no loose cords within reach of small children or pets. Our guide to cordless blinds and child safety covers this in more detail.

What it is like to live with

The change is bigger than it sounds. Shades that were left halfway all day because they were awkward to reach start to get used properly: lowered when the sun comes round, raised when it goes, closed at dusk. Rooms stay cooler in the heat of a summer afternoon, furniture and floors near the glass are spared the strongest sun, and a bedroom can be made dark without getting out of bed. For anyone who finds stretching, bending or climbing a step stool difficult, a remote or a switch makes every window in the room easy to manage.

Planning motorized blinds in Swansea, MA houses

Planning motorized blinds in Swansea, MA homes starts on the measuring visit. As well as the size of each window, we look at the space above the glass for the headrail, what sits under the window, and where a wall switch would be easiest to reach as you walk into the room. We also ask which windows you open often, so a shade never comes down onto an open sash or a plant on the sill. That way the shades suit the way the room is used, not just the size of the window.

Choosing the Blind or Shade First

The motor is only part of the story. A motorized shade still needs to suit the room: the right fabric for the light you want, the right colour for the walls, and the right fit for the window. So we start with the treatment itself and add the motor to the windows where it helps.

That also means you can mix motorized and hand-operated windows in one house. A sunroom and a high landing window might be motorized while the bedrooms keep their ordinary controls, all in matching colours. Our custom blinds and roller shades pages show some of the styles to start from.

Beyond Swansea

We fit motorized shades in 25 towns, reaching from the Massachusetts SouthCoast into Rhode Island’s East Bay. Every town gets a page about its own houses and windows; the nearest is motorized blinds for Somerset, over the river. The full list of towns is further down.

Keeping them running well

Look after the blind or shade as you would any other: a light dusting of the slats or fabric, and a damp cloth only where the material allows it. Keep furniture and plants clear of the shade’s path so nothing gets in its way as it lowers. Run each shade all the way up and down now and then, including the ones you rarely use, so you notice early if one starts to move unevenly. If something is not running as it should, call the store and tell us what is happening, and which window it is. If you ever add a window or redo a room, the new shades can be chosen to match the ones already in the house.

What Sets Window Works Apart

Started in Swansea in 1988 and still family run, now by the second generation, Window Works has over 37 years behind it, covering windows from the SouthCoast to the East Bay.

• Seasoned specialists in window treatments
• We measure at the house; our installers fit and set up each shade
• Regular updates from us until everything is finished
• Warranties are offered on what we sell
• Blinds and shades to try at our Swansea store

Visit the showroom

Book Your Free Quote

A free quote for motorized blinds in Swansea, MA is one press of the call button away, and the same call can arrange measuring in the home or answer questions about installation and setup. Rather write? Fill in the form and we will reply. If you want to see the blinds and shades first, stop by the showroom, with directions on the contact page. Google reviewers give Window Works 5.0.