Luxury motorized window treatments engineered as native devices on the home’s control system. Lutron, Crestron, Control4, Savant, and Josh.ai — specified during construction, coordinated with the architect, builder, and integrator, and commissioned on the homeowner’s existing keypads and scenes. Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills, Malibu, and Pacific Palisades.
Reviewed by Olga Rechdouni, ASID · Updated 2026-06-25
Drapery is commissioned as a first-class device on the platform the home is already running — not as a parallel remote-controlled product layered on top of it.
The default lighting and shading platform for Los Angeles estates. Drapery is commissioned as a native Sivoia QS, Triathlon, or Serena RA3 device — addressed on the homeowner’s existing keypads, app, and astronomical schedule rather than as a parallel system.
Drapery motors are written into the integrator’s program as named scenes (Morning, View, Cinema, Sleep) before the install team leaves the site. Track addresses, travel times, and group behavior are tuned with the integrator on the same visit as the final dress of the folds.
Control4 drivers expose drapery as a full shading device — open, close, percentage, scene, and feedback. The studio coordinates DriverCentral or native drivers with the dealer of record so the homeowner’s Neeo or T4 remote drives drapery, lighting, and audio on one button.
Savant Pro layouts treat drapery as a first-class room device — surfaced on the homeowner’s app, voice assistant, and keypads alongside lighting and climate. Particularly common in Bel Air and Holmby Hills estates already specified end-to-end on Savant.
Josh.ai sits above the control system as the conversational layer. Drapery scenes (“Josh, set the room to morning”) trigger the underlying Lutron, Crestron, Control4, or Savant program — quietly, privately, and without an Alexa-style cloud round trip.
Where a homeowner prefers a consumer voice layer, Lutron, Somfy, and Crestron all expose drapery cleanly to Apple Home, Alexa, and Google Home. Used as overlays — never as the primary control plane on an estate-grade program.
Smart drapery is an architectural specification, not a finish-stage product. The studio works with the architect, builder, electrician, and smart-home integrator from the framing walk through final commissioning.
Drapery is specified at the same table as lighting and AV — before drywall. Ceiling pockets, structural blocking, recess depths, low-voltage runs, and conduit sizing are agreed in writing with the architect, integrator, and electrician of record.
Hardwired DC motors are the default for new construction; line-voltage AC for very long runs; Somfy battery motors for retrofits where wall-fishing is not feasible. Track type, splice locations, and motor handing are documented on a shop drawing the integrator can build to.
The studio attends framing, electrical rough-in, and pre-drywall walks. Pockets are dimensioned for the actual track and bracket footprint; conduit is pulled with a drag line; structural blocking is signed off before close-up.
Panels are cut, joined, lined, interlined, hand-finished, and weighted in the studio’s Los Angeles workroom. Motorized panels are weight-balanced to the track and motor torque so the system reads as effortless on the first travel.
The install team mounts, levels, and tunes the track on site. The integrator addresses each motor, tunes travel speed and intermediate stops, and writes the scenes into the homeowner’s program before sign-off — drapery, lighting, and audio commissioned together.
Specified at framing. Silent at three feet, 10–15 year service life, no batteries to maintain. The right choice for primary suites, great rooms, screening rooms, and any program already on Lutron, Crestron, Control4, or Savant.
Somfy Sonesse 28 and 30 RTS / Zigbee battery motors. One- to three-year recharge intervals depending on panel weight and travel frequency. Specified when wall-fishing is not feasible and the program is a single room — never as the default on a new build.
For battery retrofits in sun-rich rooms, Somfy solar panels extend recharge intervals materially. Specified room-by-room against the window’s actual exposure rather than as a blanket upgrade.
The single largest determinant of whether motorized drapery reads as architecture or as an upgrade is the construction stage at which it was specified. Pockets, conduit, blocking, and reveals belong on the architect’s drawing — not in a field improvisation after drywall is up.
The integrator owns the home’s control program. The drapery studio owns the cloth, the track, and the motion. Smart home drapery integration is the discipline of writing those two responsibilities into one commissioning. When it is done well, no one notices a system — they notice a room that knows what to do.
For the cloth, lining, and panel discipline that runs underneath any automation, see motorized drapery in Los Angeles. For the architectural drawing of a layered sheer-and-blackout primary suite, see sheer drapery and blackout drapery. For the cost picture, see the cost guide and the motorization guide.
Smart home drapery integration is the practice of commissioning motorized drapery as a native device on the home’s control system — Lutron, Crestron, Control4, Savant, or Josh.ai — rather than as a standalone remote-controlled product. The drapery appears on the homeowner’s existing keypads, app, scenes, and schedules alongside lighting, audio, and climate.
Lutron QS / RA3 / HomeWorks, Crestron Home and 4-Series, Control4 OS 3, Savant Pro, and Josh.ai. Consumer overlays — Apple Home, Alexa, and Google Home — are supported where a homeowner prefers a voice layer above the primary control system.
During construction whenever possible. Hardwired DC motors live in a ceiling pocket sized at framing, with low-voltage conduit pulled before drywall. Specifying motorized drapery during construction is the difference between hardware that reads as architecture and hardware that reads as an upgrade.
Yes. Somfy Sonesse battery motors on RTS, Zigbee, or Matter retrofit cleanly into existing homes without wall-fishing. The trade-off is a one- to three-year recharge interval and a slightly narrower range of track and panel weights compared with a hardwired program.
Hardwired motors run on continuous low-voltage power, are silent, carry heavier panels, and have a 10–15 year service life — specified at framing on new builds. Battery motors are self-contained, do not require wall-fishing, and recharge every one to three years — specified for retrofits and single rooms where construction-stage wiring is not available.
Yes — that coordination is the work. The studio attends framing and electrical rough-in walks, signs off on pocket dimensions and blocking, documents wiring on shop drawings the integrator can build to, and commissions the drapery on the integrator’s program before hand-off.
Yes — once commissioned on Lutron, Crestron, Control4, Savant, or Somfy, drapery is exposed to Apple Home, Alexa, and Google Home as a standard shading device. Josh.ai is the preferred voice layer on estate-grade programs because it sits above the control system rather than replacing it.
Cost is driven by track length, motor count, control platform, and construction stage — not by a per-window price. A primary-suite layered sheer-and-blackout program on Lutron is materially different from a single great-room ripple-fold panel on Somfy. The studio writes a line-item specification before any number is committed.
Begin with a private consultation. We will follow with a tailored proposal, fabric direction, and an honest opinion on what your room is asking for.
