by Jeff Miller | Aug 12, 2016 | Architecture/Green Building, Draper Updates, Solar Control & Window Shades
There’s a lot of information out there on choosing the proper shading solution. A Google search for the term “how to choose window treatments” brings up more than 1.8 million hits. Searching the term how to choose window shades” gets even more results—almost 3.5...
by Amy Madden | Aug 9, 2016 | Architecture/Green Building, Draper Updates, Home Theatre, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Solar Control & Window Shades
If there’s one thing that connects residential and commercial AV integrators, it’s the search for new profit centers, and new ways to add to the bottom line. On the CE Pro website, Julie Jacobson recently talked about one such area: Indoor Air Quality, or IAQ. This is...
by Jeff Miller | Jul 26, 2016 | Draper Updates, Solar Control & Window Shades
There are many reasons window shades make good sense. Often we focus on their benefits to the bottom line, through energy savings and reduction in the size of HVAC systems. We also discuss solar control’s impact on the health and well-being of employees. Today I...
by Amy Madden | Jun 28, 2016 | Draper Updates, Home Theatre, International Update, Pro AV Integration, Solar Control & Window Shades
One of the questions we often get from AV and home theatre dealers who are starting to work with shades is: how do we go about measuring for shades? On the surface, this sounds like a simple question, right? “Well, you find a window and you measure it.” As...
by Jeff Miller | May 17, 2016 | Draper Updates, Solar Control & Window Shades
There are many reasons people choose a particular company’s window shades in their projects. It may be long-term preference based on familiarity; product quality; price; breadth of product offering; or any one of a dozen other factors. One factor that may not always...
by Jeff Miller | May 6, 2016 | Architecture/Green Building, Draper Updates, Solar Control & Window Shades
More and more, we are finding customers in need of custom solutions. An ongoing project-a very large project-serves as a perfect illustration of Draper’s custom capabilities. It’s the subject of a new case study entitled “Custom Shade Brackets Solve...