We slot into your project team — from schematic design through punch list. One point of contact, one set of plans, one trade that owns shades, drapery, lighting, and control end-to-end.
Most shading and lighting work in this market gets handed off three times before it gets installed — a salesperson sells, a sub installs, an integrator programs, nobody owns the result. We've built Motion Shading the other way.
The same team that walks the schematic with your architect specifies the loads with your electrician, hangs the keypads with your finish carpenter, and tunes the scenes with your client at substantial completion. You get one number to call, one inbox that answers, and one set of drawings that doesn't contradict itself.
Builders, architects, and interior designers each ask different questions. We don't bundle our services — we shape what we deliver around what your firm is responsible for, so we sit comfortably inside your existing workflow.
We pre-walk the rough with your electrician and low-voltage trade so the wires are where the keypads are going to be — neutrals on every gang, conduit where the drapery rods are heading, structured wiring to the AV closet. No callbacks at trim. No drywall patching at punch.
We write specs that survive value engineering and don't lock you to a single brand. We red-line your reflected ceiling plan, your lighting schedule, and your control intent diagram. We're brand-agnostic: Lutron, Hunter Douglas, Insolroll, Fenetex, and Josh.ai are tools, not a sales sheet.
We work with your fabric, your hardware schedule, your keypad finish board. Bring us the room before the millwork is locked and we'll spec the mechanism around it; bring us a finished house and we'll work backward from the trim. Designer trade pricing applies on every brand.
We sit on the AIA-standard project arc rather than imposing our own. The handoffs below are the ones your team is already running — we just make sure shading, lighting, and control are inside the conversation at each one, instead of arriving in the last week of construction.
Initial walk with the architect and homeowner. Light-and-control intent narrative. First-pass load count.
Fixture schedule, keypad layout, shade mechanism plan. Brand recommendations with budget tiers.
Stamped specs, RCP coordination, low-voltage drawings. Bid-ready package the GC can hand to electrical.
Rough-in walks. Submittal review. Site coordination at framing, drywall, and trim. Field changes documented.
Commissioning. Scene programming with the homeowner. One-year seasonal tune included on every project.
One quote, picked from the dozen we could have used. We work most often with custom builders in the $3–10M range and design firms whose clients expect the lights and shades to behave like the rest of the architecture.
They walked the rough with my super before drywall, drew up exactly what they were going to do, and handed me a system that didn't need a single service call in the first six months.
This form goes to our trade desk, not the homeowner queue — we'll respond within one business day with the next-best step (a call, a showroom appointment with your client, a spec turnaround, or a site walk).
Touch every fabric, hear every motor, try every keypad finish. Our team meets you with samples pre-staged for the project — by appointment, with refreshments, and with the option of a private hour outside of public showroom hours.