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Power Up Your Shade Sales Game

by Terry Coffey | July 21, 2025 | Draper At Home, Solar Control & Window Shades | 7 Comments

This week we’re powering up your competitive advantage with a special week launching more tools to help you get more sales! This special “Power Up” week features exciting, next-level window shade upgrades! We’re rolling out highly anticipated upgrades to some of our...

New Draper-Designed Chain Tensioner for Clutch Shades

by Terry Coffey | July 16, 2025 | Architecture/Green Building, Draper At Home, Solar Control & Window Shades | 0 Comments

Part of our overall Strategy as a company is to keep finding ways to get better: “We draw from deep expertise to continuously improve and hold ourselves to a standard of excellence.” An excellent example of that strategy hits the streets in the next few days in the...

Dream Big, Build Bigger!

by Terry Coffey | July 9, 2025 | Audiovisual Mounts & Structures, Draper Updates, Pro AV Integration | 0 Comments

That’s the message we took to InfoComm 2025 in Orlando and based on feedback from the show that message was delivered loud and clear! In order to focus attention on AV Mounts and Structures, this was the first time our InfoComm booth did not include projection...

Branching Out, Remaining Rooted: An American Manufacturing Story

by Terry Coffey | July 2, 2025 | Draper Updates | 0 Comments

It’s an American manufacturing story that begins with one man’s vision, a small local business, and a bicycle. Through the years, that vision grew and thrived, and the story developed into a multi-faceted tale of success and values held in the face of changing times....

Bond Bridge Pro Brings App Control to Draper, Draper At Home Shades

by Terry Coffey | June 25, 2025 | Architecture/Green Building, Smart Home, Solar Control & Window Shades | 0 Comments

Now you can enjoy the complete smart control experience thanks to our new partnership with Bond – and yes, there’s an app for that! We are partnering with controls company Bond to integrate motorized window shades into home control/automation systems through the Bond...

Pumpkin Cake

by Terry Coffey | Nov 25, 2015 | Draper Updates

Thanksgiving in the United States isn’t always the best time to start innovating in the world of food prep. For the most part, we like the traditional standards: Turkey, stuffing, yams, and, of course, green bean casserole. If there is one area where there’s more...

Making Waves with Projection

by Amy Madden | Nov 23, 2015 | Home Theatre, Houses of Worship, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Screen Technology

When you ride waves, you are always behind. You’re always trying to catch up to the latest trend. Because you’re always following, you’re never ahead. For years, we rode the waves. We sold matt white…over and over again. In our defense, Draper did offer other...

Of Soaps and Screens

by Terry Coffey | Nov 20, 2015 | Draper Updates

This is an historic week in the world of soap opera comic strips. I know, I know … “What are soap opera comic strips? Do they even make comic strips anymore?” A soap opera comic strip is a daily dramatic strip, following a set of characters through various emotional...

Why Draper-Clint Childress

by Terry Coffey | Nov 18, 2015 | Architecture/Green Building, Draper Updates, Solar Control & Window Shades

Since the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo (see our show preview here) is underway this week in Washington, DC, we thought this an appropriate time to make Clint Childress the subject of a Why Draper post. As a LEED®AP and Draper's Solar Control Solutions...

Draper Returns to WFX

by Terry Coffey | Nov 16, 2015 | Draper Updates, Houses of Worship, Screen Technology

It’s unlikely Mal McCawley will forget the 2014 Worship Facilities Expo any time soon. During the show, McCawley visited the Draper booth and entered a prize drawing, never imagining his name would be drawn. “Everyone at church is very happy,” McCawley, the Pastor of...

Draper Introduces Topspin at Greenbuild 2015

by Chris Broome | Nov 13, 2015 | Architecture/Green Building, Draper Updates, Solar Control & Window Shades

In a recent post on the Draper blog, it was pointed out that there is a certain irony in modern “green” architecture and design: In our attempts to use the positive aspects of natural daylight to make our buildings more sustainable and comfortable, the opposite...

CEDIA II: CEDIA Strikes Back

by Terry Coffey | Nov 9, 2015 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Screen Technology, Solar Control & Window Shades

A couple of weeks ago Residential Market Manager Amy Madden shared her thoughts on CEDIA 2015, and now it’s my turn! Before CEDIA even started, Amy and I were on hand for a three-day training class with Joel Silver, the co-founder of the Imaging Science Foundation....

TecVision Stuns in Utah Home Cinema

by Terry Coffey | Nov 6, 2015 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, Screen Technology

Matthew Irvin knew he had his work cut out for him when he was approached by a very particular client for a special home cinema job in Park City, Utah. “The customer needed more “wow” in the room, according to Irvin, who is the president of Audioworks in Salt Lake...

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