Yes, Also Automatic
Fort Worth sits at thirty-two degrees north and most of its prettiest neighborhoods face west, which means the four o'clock sun has been quietly bleaching your hardwoods, blinding your screens, and pushing your air conditioner past five hundred dollars a month for years now. Motorized shades are not a flourish here. They are a quiet machine that protects everything you love about the inside of your house. We install J Geiger and Savant shades that read the sun for you — easing down on the western windows as the afternoon turns and lifting at dusk so the Fort Worth skyline gets to come back inside.
No two windows tell the same story. A Rivercrest estate has arched transoms and shapes the hardware store has never seen. A Westover Hills mid-century has floor-to-ceiling glass and a soffit that wants the shade fascia to disappear into it. A Clearfork home has a wall of sliding glass to a covered patio and you want the view to come back the second the shade goes up. We measure on-site, choose fabric for each window's sun, and work with your designer so the finished shade looks like it was always part of the room. The afternoon sun stops winning.
Who We Help in Fort Worth
- You live in Westover Hills with a wall of west-facing glass and the room is unbearable from three to seven
- You own in Rivercrest and your windows are arched, oversized, and shaped like nothing the catalog sells
- You have an open-plan Clearfork home with sliding glass doors and you want the shade to disappear when the view should be back
- You collect art in Mira Vista or Montserrat and the UV needs to stop hitting it
- You are a Fort Worth parent who has decided cords on bedroom blinds are not okay anymore
How We Do It in Fort Worth
Window Assessment — We measure every window in your Fort Worth home, note its compass direction, study its trim, and find the right way for the shade to live there.
Fabric Selection — Fabrics in your hand, in your room — sheer, translucent, solar, blackout — chosen for each window's sun, your privacy, and the rest of your palette.
Specification & Order — Precise specs to J Geiger or Savant. For a Rivercrest arch, we cut the template on-site and the manufacturer matches it exactly.
Installation — Concealed brackets, clean wire routing, fascias that meet your crown molding the way they should — finished to a millimeter.
Automation Programming — Shades folded into your Savant system. Solar-tracking schedules, sunrise and sunset events, and scenes tuned to Fort Worth's seasonal sun angles.
Calibration & Grouping — Motor limits set, travel speeds matched, and entire walls of windows moving together as one breath.
Licensed, Insured, Quietly Compliant
- Certified J Geiger and Savant dealer in Fort Worth and Tarrant County
- CPSC cord-free safety compliance on every installation
- Licensed and insured in the State of Texas
- Full manufacturer warranties on motors, fabrics, and control hardware
- 2-year labor warranty on all shade installations
The Questions People Actually Ask.
How much do motorized shades actually move the cooling bill?
Solar shades at three to five percent openness cut solar heat gain through glass by 65 to 80 percent. On a Westover Hills home with forty west-facing windows in July, that is an HVAC system that is suddenly not fighting alone. Most homeowners report 15 to 25 percent off summer cooling once the shades are tracking the sun on their own instead of waiting for someone to remember.
Can you motorize the arched windows in my Rivercrest home?
Yes. J Geiger and Savant both build to custom shapes. We cut the template on-site with laser measurement and submit it directly to the factory. Arched tops usually get a fixed fabric panel matched to the curve with a motorized shade covering the rectangle below. For the Palladian windows you find in Rivercrest's Georgian and Colonial homes, we design an integrated treatment for the whole assembly.
Wired or battery — which one is mine?
Wired shades pull power from a low-voltage line in the wall and they never need a battery thought again. Battery-powered shades are the right answer for retrofits where running wire would mean opening a finished wall. For Clearfork and Montserrat new builds we always recommend wired. For Rivercrest and Westover Hills retrofits, battery-powered Savant is the clean answer.
Will the shades talk to the rest of the house?
Yes. Savant shades speak Savant and Apple HomeKit natively, so shades become part of every scene. Movie closes the theater shades. Goodnight lowers the bedroom blackouts. Away positions the shades to suggest the house is still being lived in. Solar tracking moves each shade by its own compass orientation through the day, which on a Fort Worth west-facing wall is the difference between a beautiful afternoon and a difficult one.
How long do the batteries last in this climate?
About twelve to eighteen months on normal use. Fort Worth's heat does not change the battery much because the motors live indoors. Shades that solar-track on west-facing windows cycle more often and want a charge every eight to ten months. We include a rechargeable battery wand with every battery installation so the shade never has to come down.
