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Increase Your Sunroom's Appeal With Sunroom Shades

Mon 21 Jul 2008 - 13:38

Increase Your Sunroom's Appeal With Sunroom Shades
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Robert_Skelter]Robert Skelter

The answer? You can purchase customized shades for your sunroom windows, which will be wither manually or electronically controlled. You can choose from among fabric, vinyl, wood, aluminum, cordless, or mini blinds, in whatever color will complement your sunroom décor. Your custom sunroom shades will be manufactured to fit the shape of your sunroom's windows, which themselves were fitted to work with your sunroom's roofline.

Shades are one of the most common decorative sunroom accents. They not only look great; they block those harmful ultraviolet rays and will provide privacy when it's required. By choosing sunroom shades constructed of a pastel fabric, you will maintain your sunroom's feeling of spaciousness, and you will also be using a material which reflects the heat entering your sunroom instead of absorbing it. Your sunroom shades, in other words, will make your sunroom more energy efficient.

Sunroom Shade Options

You can decide to purchase shades for only some of your sunroom windows through which the sun shines most strongly, or you can get shades for all of them. You can vary the colors of your shades, and you can decide whether to go with manual or electronic sunroom shades. Manual shades will cost less, but electronic sunroom shades can be controlled by remote, with their heights when closed or opened pre-programmed.

You can use your remote to raise only a few of the electronic sunroom shades, or you can set it to open or close all of them simultaneously. Your electronic shades will even have a timer control, giving you the option of setting the shades to raise or lower when you are not at home. You can also install a sunroom shade system will operates with wall switches in place of a remote. But regardless of the style of sunroom shades you choose, take care to make sure they are both fire and water resistant.

Specialty Sunroom Shades

If you decide to go the extra step and have skylights installed in your [http://sunroombasic.com/sunroom-basic/sunroom-design]Sunroom Design, If you have skylights in your sunroom, you'll need ceiling shades. If you didn't order the shades at the time you installed the skylights, you will need to find a shade manufacturer who can put in stripping to serve as tracks for your ceiling shades, but most sunroom shade manufactures can do that with no problem.

The fabric you choose for your ceiling sunroom shades will make a big difference in how much sunlight and heat enters the room, and you will be able to select from fabrics designed to transmit specific levels of sunlight. Midnight sunroom shades, if used with a specially glozed skylight, will entirely block the sun, while a fabric which blocks only twenty or thirty percent of the sunlight will allow your room to be bright without being blindingly so.

You can also find more info on [http://sunroombasic.com/sunroom-basic/sunroom]Sunroom. Sunroombasic.com is a comprehensive resource which provide information about sunroom.

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