Serena by Lutron Smart Wood Blinds review: Pretty enough, but also pretty expensive

Lutron makes one of our favorite motorized shades, but the company also offers motorized blinds. Window blinds are considered "hard" window coverings because they consist of slats--wooden, in this case--that drop down from the top of the window (or that slide left or right, in the case of vertical blinds). The motor mounted in the headrail of the Serena blinds tilts the 2-inch slats for privacy and light control. The accumulated weight of the slats, however, makes them too heavy for the motor to lift--even though Lutron fabricates the slats from a soft, fine-grained timber called North American basswood. If you want to fully expose the window, you will need to lift the blinds by hand and pull them back down to close.