Albuquerque Awning Blog
The Art of Shade Sails
There is an art to covering spaces to shield areas from the sun. Awnings frame windows and doorways; patio covers, both fabric and aluminum, extend from the sides of the home over yards; screening pulls down from portals and windows. All of these installations are restricted by the their mounts and the […]
Cover the Patio
Some of the most appealing aspects of a house are its exterior space, views and the property on which it sits. Realtors call it curb appeal. This may refer to the view of the house from the sidewalk, but it is also reflected in other outdoor areas. Whether the home you purchased […]
Design for Outdoor Living
We’re going to encourage you to think outside the box, and we’ll help you get there. We’ll take your patio cover idea and turn it into fabulous shade sails that will cover that large area with elegance and drama. Instead of an awning over the side door, we can create an entrance […]
Heat Screening
The single greatest contributor to the inside temperature of a home in sunny New Mexico is the exterior walls. Put your hand on the outside stucco, wood or stone during the warm months and feel that heat. That heat translates to a warm interior, like a cocoon. Some homes have the advantage […]
Business Graphics for Awnings
We are bombarded with thousands of visual messages every day on the road, on TV, on T-shirts, on food packaging, in elevators, office buildings, airports and even in our own cars. Exit arrows, men’s & women’s restroom icons, on and off buttons in red & green, falling rock zones, steep inclines, railroad […]
Interior Window Screening
If you have ever had a rug, carpet or drapes exposed to sunshine from windows, day after day, you know the damage of UV rays from the sun. Colors fade, sometimes dramatically, and fibers deteriorate. In the southwest, most of us live at altitudes much higher than the rest of the states […]
Exterior Patio Screening
In the great southwest wind and sun are the greatest sources of both energy and property damage. Winds cool the air and sun warms the exterior walls of buildings. Exterior screening can be the most effective way of taking advantage of these elements. Many homes in the southwest are constructed with deep […]
Somfy Motors for Screens and Awnings
For all you GrillMasters and Motorheads out there, you can chuckle quietly to yourself when steaks are on order in the dead of January. Instead of running around the side of the house to crank up that screen over the door, you simply press the remote. You had the foresight to ask […]
Ultra-Wide Custom Screening
World’s Largest Seamless View Screen! We just have to toot our horn about this one. We think it may be the coolest product we’ve come up with this year. A double roll tube is incorporated into our Santa Fe Patio Wind and Solar Screen™ allowing a free span, seamless, retractable screen up […]
2015 Year in Review
Happy New Year one and all! 2015 has been a year of challenges, development and found us opportunities to create fabric solutions on a scale that has been exciting. We have enclosed patios, built mud rooms, covered a school playground area with patio covers on steel structures, installed motorized awnings over windows […]