What is a Gazebo? Spending time outdoors is always special and much enjoyed by all members of the family. It is a welcome break from being cooped up indoors the whole day at work or at home. The fresh air is energizing and if you have a beautiful garden and a landscape then the outdoors is the best place to…
Add Function And Style To Every Room With Different Window Treatments The best part of having fun so many windows in a home is getting to decide the best way to treat them with window coverings, blinds, shades, drapery, etc. People sometimes wonder if they should try to stick to the same treatment throughout their home to give it…
Solar shades, sometimes known as sunscreens, are a beautiful, useful, and functional alternative to standard window treatments. They offer added advantages that make them the perfect choice for homes with a view or windows located where sunlight shines directly in. You need some sort of window coverings to block out the early morning sunlight. Again, window coverings are an easy…
Extend Your Home beyond the Walls Exterior Solar Shades are a great way to create cozy comfort in your outdoor spaces in Canada. People love the closeness and connection they share with nature when they are out in open, but how safe is it to be in intense sunlight and excessive heat? Our patios, decks or balconies often remain deserted…
Mechanism of spring loaded blinds A spring roller shade consists a hollow tube that consists of a spring inside. When tension of the shade is increased when the roller shade is pulled down. If you stop pulling down the roller shade, a ratchet and pin hold the tension on the spring on one of the ends of the roller shade.…
Carmen’s “shading” grace! To give life to someone is a beautiful thing, but to give someone a second life after it has been pulled away from their very hands is invaluable. This is something Carmen had the pleasure of doing every other day. She was a life- guard on the Singing Sands Beach, Canada. She had lost count of how…
The Impact of Window Treatments on Home Décor “Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill – and not just during high school English exams. Our ability to rank-order things is invaluable in making choices and setting priorities.” – Martha Beck Prioritizing things in the order of their importance is a very simple task, yet time and again, we fail…
Go for the best experience everytime! Every window offers an ideal opportunity to express individuality through functional aesthetics. There are a lot of people out there who just couldn’t give a fig and some who attach undue importance while there are those who take the middle ground. Then there are those who are completely at sea when it comes to…
Standards setting organization is an organization whose role is to develop, coordinate and generate technical standards for items and services that have a wide base of consumers. In a dynamic environment, such as the one we are living in, these standards need to be constantly updated , amended and reissued as revisions. Standards are generally offered for voluntary adoption by…
Damaging natural sunlight. “I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved all year. “– Victor Borge I agree with Victor Borge on the savings, but there is more to natural light than just savings. I am a daylight person, and nothing said against it has bothered me…