by Terry Coffey | Feb 15, 2023 | Architecture/Green Building, Draper At Home, Solar Control & Window Shades
What do you do when you have an angled window that requires interior shading? Our new solution for this means you don’t have to use a square shade and overlap the window opening. The Gabled Bottom-Up FlexShade can be sill-mounted in the window. It can handle angles up...
by Terry Coffey | Feb 10, 2023 | Architecture/Green Building, Gym Equipment, Solar Control & Window Shades
Four construction projects that include Draper solutions are nominated in the annual ArchDaily.com “Building of the Year” competition. Three of the four buildings were solar control projects, and two of them are home to tailored solutions custom-designed by Draper....
by Terry Coffey | Jan 25, 2023 | Draper At Home, Residential Technology, Solar Control & Window Shades
Interior designers and paint companies like to start each new year with a look at what color trends are developing and naming their “color of the year.” In 2022 various neutral shades of green were chosen, although Pantone® was an outlier with its “Veri Peri”...
by Terry Coffey | Jan 11, 2023 | Draper At Home, Residential Technology, Solar Control & Window Shades
Domes Audio Video Environments had a real problem, and time was running out. The Virginia Beach, Virginia, member of the HTSA trade consortium wanted to replace the store’s blackout shades used as demo units. “We had a store event planned in 3 weeks,” said Domes...
by Terry Coffey | Jan 4, 2023 | Audiovisual Mounts & Structures, Draper Updates, External Videos, Pro AV Integration, Residential Technology, Screen Technology, Solar Control & Window Shades
One of the manufacturing trends over recent years, especially in the window shade industry, has been to move production away from domestic facilities. This has mostly been done in the name of cost-cutting and commoditizing shading products. But Draper has done the...
by Terry Coffey | Oct 19, 2022 | Architecture/Green Building, Draper At Home, Residential Technology, Solar Control & Window Shades
Draper window shades have more than 120 years of innovation and experience behind them. But one question we are still frequently asked is, “How do you make a shade? And why does it matter?” We’ve recently completed a new video designed to take you through our entire...