This blinds install in Coco del Mar, a beautiful coastal neighborhood in Panama City highlights one particular effect of screen material, and as such the roller shade product:

Without Rollers @ 10:30 AM: notice the shadows and sunlight reflected on the floor

After installing the roller shades, look to see if you notice the reduction in direct sunlight into the room. Note the same floor area that was shown before, see if you notice what is missing.

With Roller Shades @ 12 PM: Note the lack of any shadows, bright sun reflection on the floor, yet how much visibility there is to the outside

The fabric used in this install was the Standard Collection Dark Bronze, which is a mid-high efficiency sun control fabric with excellent visibility. In fact, many people who look at the second photo might not even realize they have shades.

But most important of all is something that many people who look at sun control screen fabric falsely assume- that screening fabric is not adequate enough in reducing light and heat. It does, and it does it amazingly well, while maintaing a large part of the visibility to the exterior.

I liked this picture!

Panel Track

We installed another satisfied customer today and I marveled at how ideal the application turned out to be. The sliding panel, or panel track, create an elegant stack when opened. This application was ideal for the client’s sliding glass doors  as the panels slide and stack to the left,  as do the doors themselves.

Two details to note:

1. The view is completely intact, as you can see the Panama City skyline in the horizon.

2. The room is darkened and glare is removed enough for viewing of television, as exemplified in this cozy living room in El Dorado. If you were to be in this room and you wanted a tad more light, say to read, you’d simply budge the blinds open a bit.

I feel this room is the ideal application- you are protected from bright light and glare, but you’re still connected to the city and its environs by having the view. A fabric curtain would simply shut you out from the world. For those curious- the fabric chosen for this Panel and Roller application was a 550 White Linen, one of our more efficient weaves.

Blackout - Matte - Off White

Another very telling application is this blackout. This 110 inch roller is one of our specialties: as we pride ourselves in making large curtains that are easy to handle due to the quality of our mechanisms.

I love this picture because it exemplifies exactly how effectively blackout allows for darkness in the room. Add to that being easy to clean, easy to maintain, and its attractive price and its a no-brainer solution .

The client plans to later put some nice fabric side panels to match the colors & details in the room, which is what is usually recommended with blackout applications in bedrooms.

Persianamania would like to formally introduce one of our more unique, but less understood products, the Screen View 20% Screen. The 20% refers to the percentage of openness on the fabric- which is a pretty sizeable amount of the surface. As such, my experience tells me that most people assume this to be a pretty energy inefficient fabric. In a standard Reflection/Absorption/Transmission test, all of our screens perform equal or better to some 5% and 10% rollers. What’s the secret? Our screen view product only comes in lighter colors, and lighter colors reflect more solar energy, and absorb less of the same, making the solar heat gain less than a darker color of a tighter fabric even though transmission due to openness is higher.

We can put it like this:

Privacy: Low
Efficiency: Good
View: Excellent

A darker colored 5% blind such as the 5% Ebony Bronze would share the same privacy, efficiency and view as a 20% blind, but would differ in a very drastic way: Color.

A 20% blind takes a lighter color’s weakness, high privacy,

Screen View (20%) Linen

thus reduced view, and turns it into a strength by opening up the weave. Thus if you want to maximize your view and simply cannot fit black, bronze, gray into your decor, a Screen View Blind is the choice for you.

It is also the least expensive persiana or blind to boot.

Other Notes:

• Screen View can be thermal welded, thus be made into larger blinds.
• Products it can be made into: Roller Shades, Panel Track & Roman Shades
• At this moment we produce it in Linen, White Gray and White.