6 Reasons To Choose Remote Controlled Blackout Shades for Skylights Motorized Skylight Shades offer a lot of flexibility, particularly for those shades which are located in places that are hard to reach. With the use of different remote controls and switches, a number of shades can be opened or closed with the press of a button. Skylights bring both stunning…
Common Sense Window Shading for Sustainable Living Change takes place over a period of time that we don’t realize that some things have come to stay till we actually think about it. With urbanized overcrowding driving people out of cities to relocate to other less populated areas, with hopefully cheaper real estate, city planners, developers and homeowners have slowly but…
Exploring Our Options Bare windows, by themselves, with glass panes and external treatments, like awnings and screens, satisfy many requirements expected out of them. They let light and air into the home. They also to open up the space to make it feel less confining. Unfortunately, man cannot live with bare windows alone because many other conditions need to be…
Making the best use of Mother Nature’s biggest gift to us The phrase “let there be light” is only too familiar to us and for good enough reason. Natural light is an inexhaustible energy source that we should make the most advantage of. Studies have shown that, subconsciously we humans are drawn to natural light. Natural lighting not only transforms…
The Importance of a Great Curb Appeal Whenever I drive past a neighbourhood, I always look for a house that stands apart from the rest. It could be a well-tended garden or an appealing front or garage doors, a decorative fence, the windows, the lighting – it could be any number of things. But come what may, first impressions…
Automated Window Shading Solutions. Last week as we waited at the airport to fly out to our holiday in Caracas, a friend kept fiddling with her phone, completely immersed in it ….I thought her very unsociable and demanded if she meant to keep it up through the holiday. And she turned to us, quickly apologizing, saying that she was checking…
SKYLIGHTS BLINDS, SHADES AND SHUTTERS Skylights or ‘roof windows’ as they’re known are by no means a modern invention – in fact, they’ve been in use for centuries. Years and years ago, when houses were built with sloped overhanging roofs to shade spacious, wrap-around balconies, hardly any light would reach the interiors of the houses, so small glass panes were…
Cars used to be square before they became sleek. They had crank up windows, Radio machines that played cassettes, and the speakers that took most of the dashboard. Now we have cars from the Sci-Fi section. They talk to you, make calls for you, automatically lock a door and open windows. We even have cars only need gas refills once…