The patio, used every day of the year.
Templar and Progressive Screens motorized exterior shades — wind-rated, weather-sealed, integrated with the lighting and climate system. The Arizona sun stops being an obstacle and starts being a setting.
Two lines, one mission.
Templar and Progressive Screens are the two motorized exterior shade brands we trust to actually survive a Scottsdale summer. Both lines are wind-rated, weather-sealed, and built with motors that hold up to the daily up-and-down a desert patio demands.
Templar is our pick for the cleanest hardware aesthetic — slim head boxes, hidden tracks, fabric choices that match the architecture. Progressive is the choice when the opening is oversized, the wind is brutal, or the project calls for serious glare control over a large covered patio.
Sun, wind, view — at the touch of a scene.
Exterior shades only earn their place if the homeowner actually uses them. We make them disappear into the daily routine — sunrise raises them, afternoon high-glare drops them to the right percentage, sundown brings them up again, wind sensors retract them when a microburst rolls in.
On a Crestron, Control4, or Lutron platform, every shade is a named device on a scene. "Morning coffee" rolls the east bank halfway. "Pool hours" drops the west. "Movie outside" closes everything so the projector actually reads. The homeowner does not think about shades. The house handles it.
Designed with the architect.
The cleanest exterior shade installs are the ones designed before the patio is poured. Head boxes that recess into the fascia, tracks that integrate into the column detail, motor power and Lutron QS or RA3 wiring run in conduit alongside the patio low-voltage.
Retrofits work. They just take more effort to hide. We have done both. Either way, the goal is the same — a patio that stops being a place you avoid between June and September and starts being the room you live in.
Exterior shade installs we have completed.
