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Discipline 03
Motorized Shading
Whisper-quiet hidden-pocket shades that manage heat, glare, and privacy without interrupting the sightlines your architect drew.
What we solve
Your windows were drawn to frame a view. A bad shading package covers them.
Most residential shading — even expensive residential shading — arrives in exposed fascia boxes, on visible tracks, with audible motors and fabric that hangs a quarter-inch off the glass. It looks installed. It reveals the mechanism. It interrupts the architecture.
At the same time, the problems shades exist to solve are real: afternoon glare that bleaches art, heat gain that overwhelms HVAC, neighbors whose sightlines your architect did not plan around. The shading question is never whether to have them — it is whether you should see them.
How we work
Hidden pockets, detailed before framing.
We collaborate with your architect and GC during rough framing — before drywall is even on the studs — to detail a shade pocket above every window head. The pocket vanishes into the ceiling plane. When the shade is retracted, the window is visually infinite. When lowered, the fabric falls on a dedicated plane an inch off the glass, eliminating rattling and light-leak.
Every shade runs on a Lutron Sivoia QS Triathlon motor — 42dB maximum noise, synchronized to 1/4" across banks of up to 20. Fabric is specified by elevation: 3% openness on north-facing rooms for view-through, 1% on west-facing to defeat afternoon glare, blackout cassettes on bedrooms and theaters.
See the work
Sunlight, softened. Views, uninterrupted.
Hover any marker to see the product, the reasoning, and the engineering that places it there.
Double-height great room with floor-to-ceiling windows at golden hour, sheer linen shades partially lowered, the horizon visible beyond, natural stone fireplace to one side, sculptural furniture and no visible hardware.
4:48pm, mid-September. Shades at 37% on the west elevation — enough to tame the sun, not enough to lose the horizon.
Project: Meadowlark Residence · Architect: Withheld by request
Why it matters
Thermal, UV, acoustic — not just aesthetic.
A well-specified shading package is one of the most impactful thermal interventions in a home. We routinely measure 8–14°F reductions in western-facing rooms at peak solar load, with corresponding HVAC runtime cut by 20–30%. Art is protected from UV. Carpet and upholstery colors last decades instead of years.
Shades close on schedules driven by local astronomic data, indoor temperature targets, and occupant presence. You will notice them less with each passing season — which is the goal.
Deliverables
What you receive
Architectural detailing
Pocket sections drawn for every window head and delivered to your architect for integration into the rough.
Fabric consultation
Elevation-by-elevation fabric specification, with samples hung in the actual rooms before final selection.
Whisper motors
Lutron Sivoia QS Triathlon throughout — 42dB maximum, synchronized across banks to 1/4".
Astronomic scheduling
Rise and lower tracked to local sunrise/sunset, with thermal- and occupancy-aware overrides.
Integrated privacy
Privacy-mode sequences on one button — main floors and primary suite cover in under four seconds.
The MERIDIAN position
Your home is a target. We treat it like one.
The modern luxury home runs 200+ connected devices. Most are secured with nothing but the default password their vendor shipped. We take cybersecurity seriously in a way that residential integrators historically have not — and we do it as a permanent service, not a one-time install.
Read the networking briefZero-trust by default
Every device authenticated at layer 2, every traffic flow firewalled and logged. Four VLANs, no shared broadcast domain, explicit allow-list.
24/7 monitored SOC
An off-site security operations center watches your network every hour of every day. Anomaly detection, DNS reputation, real-person escalation in under 15 minutes.
Audited every quarter
Written compliance report — firmware status, traffic anomalies, capacity planning — reviewed with you every ninety days. Nothing drifts, nothing is assumed.
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