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Window Shades
Product Spotlight: Vision Control庐 IGUs in Healthcare Settings
May 21, 2025
In today’s dynamic healthcare environments, patient monitoring and privacy are paramount concerns. Vision Control® insulating glass units (IGUs) from Unicel Architectural provide a sophisticated solution tailored for nurse alcoves and critical care areas. These IGUs empower healthcare professionals with discreet observation capabilities, ensuring patient safety and dignity remain uncompromised.
New manual roller shade operator combines elegance and safety
October 4, 2023
Forget everything you think you know about manually operated window shades. It’s time to meet the manual roller shade of the future – one without hanging cords, bead chains, or locking springs! Say hello to the Ascend!
Outdoor shades and windy conditions
May 11, 2023
Outdoor shades should be as resistant as possible to wind and weather. But while shades should never be deployed during damaging winds, the question remains: How wind resistant are they? And how do you prove it?
Outdoor shades doubled this restaurant鈥檚 seating capacity
January 6, 2023
If there’s one thing popular restaurants never seem to have enough of, it’s space. The Cow: An Eatery is no exception. The Cow is in beautiful Morrison, Colorado, which is home to Red Rocks Amphitheatre and Red Rocks Park. The restaurant has a busy mix of tourists and local regulars. To make the most of their space, the owners enclosed the Cow’s back patio with fabric and plastic outdoor shades. This allowed them to add seating for about 30 customers.
How to shade exposures: control the sun with sunshades
November 14, 2022
The primary purpose of a sunshade is to control the amount of direct sunlight through your building's windows. The benefits can be found in so many articles that we will not go into them here. The intent of this page is to show you how it works and give you insight into designing a louvered sunshade system that is right for your building, whether it is to be located in Houston, TX or Minneapolis, MN. The explanation can be as simple or as complicated as we want to make it. We opted for simple, yet effective. We will cover these topics: Where to shade How to shade Southern exposures How to shade Southeastern/Southwestern exposures How to shade Eastern and Western exposures
Outdoor Shading System - ZIP Side Channels Create Shading/Weather/Insect Barriers
October 19, 2022
FlexShade庐 ZIP brings the comfort and security of the indoors outside. Enjoy the benefit of expanding usable square footage in both living and business areas without costly renovations. The ZIP offers unique side channels that ensure a sealed enclosure for existing garages, porches, patios, pool houses, and outdoor commercial food service areas. Easily create outdoor workspaces, elegant areas for dining and entertaining, or relaxing outdoor niches that are protected from the sun, wind, rain, and pesky insects. When used as an outdoor shading system, FlexShade庐 ZIP prevents heat from entering a building and helps to lower HVAC costs.
Did You Know? Window Shades Can Help Increase Productivity
July 1, 2022
The human body needs natural light to create enzymes and proteins for a healthy life. Without enough natural light, our circadian system gets out of sync and can no longer properly regulate sleep, alertness, and concentration. We become less productive. But too much...
Window shade solutions: what level of privacy are you seeking for your project?
May 18, 2022
Privacy, room darkening, opaque, and blackout are terms that are sometimes used interchangeably when talking about window shades. But did you know these terms refer to different shade characteristics and levels of privacy? Knowing those differences before you install shades in your home will help you select the best solution for your space.