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Custom Pocket Headboxes

by Jeff Miller | Apr 19, 2016 | Architecture/Green Building, Draper Updates, Solar Control & Window Shades

One of the services that make Draper unique among companies in all of our product areas is our custom manufacturing capabilities. This is especially useful in the solar control area. We recently completed a new white paper about our capabilities with custom shade...

Shade Fabric Choice

by Jeff Miller | Apr 5, 2016 | Architecture/Green Building, Solar Control & Window Shades

One of the more common questions we hear in the shade department … especially among new or recent dealers … is about shade fabric choice. There are so many possibilities from which to choose that it can seem overwhelming. To help answer some of those...

2016 FlexShade Price List Preview

by Jeff Miller | Jan 25, 2016 | Architecture/Green Building, Draper Updates, Solar Control & Window Shades

Monday, February 15 our 2016 FlexShade Price List goes into effect. Included this year are several new products, services and accessory items. For some years now, Draper has offered custom printed Graphic FlexShades. With the recent addition of some equipment,...

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...

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...

Sustainable Cities of the Future

by Jeff Miller | Nov 2, 2015 | Architecture/Green Building, Draper Updates, Solar Control & Window Shades

If you’re like me, every time you head into a big downtown area you look up at all the tall buildings. I don’t know about you, but I’m drawn in particular to all the modern buildings with their glass facades glinting in the sun. Your first thought is probably...