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Roller Blind Art

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Roller Blind Art https://mamurale.com LONGING  FOR A GREAT VIEW FROM YOUR WINDOW? Have you ever longed for a great view from your window? Does your window face a brick wall? Or worse, someone else's window? Does your apartment or condo look out onto a factory, a busy highway or road? OR maybe just onto a really, boring view of nothing in particular?  Maybe it is time to change your view . And you can. With the right illustration placed on a roller blind , the view that you have always wanted, can be yours.   What do you really want to look at? Hawaii? A jungle in South America? One of the worlds best beaches? What about a seascape or a view of the Rockies? Maybe a peaceful garden or even a field of flowers? What about a Zen garden? ILLUSTRATED ROLLER BLINDS For the more adventurous there are also roller shades that are copies of Impressionist paintings. Vincent Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, all suddenly at your window, instead of that man who is always smoking on his balcony. IM

Window film and Nanotechnology.

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Window Film and Nanotechnology mean Energy Saving. Thin Film Solar Cell Technology - Professor Chris Binns - University of Leicester   At this point this new energy delivery system is still in the early stages of development. But. It may provide a revolutionary new way to save energy at the window by creating a solar energy production system.  One more step closer to heating our homes with non renewable energy systems. Imagine.... windows that produce solar power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_NS0eyB46I New Energy Technologies    Here is another commercial developer of Solar Windows. Nanotechnology and sprayed on solar window coatings combine to create solar energy. Such technology has the potential to  save us all from global warming, lowering our reliance on fossil fuels.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BohznWrTrO8 Cathedral, Solar panels and stained glass windows. Amazing. Combining solar panels and stained glass in Saskatoon,  Saskatchewan

The future of window treatments - Sonte Film

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The Future of Window Treatments     These two videos speak for themselves. This product seems to do it all. At least from a technoid point of view. Still, it is very exciting. Window film that is a DIY on any retro window, that can change as the light changes, as you want it to deliver more or less privacy in the same day, and that doubles as a screen or monitor. It does it all. Plus you control it from your smart phone. Who would have guessed... not me!    Sonte Film     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH_cRve6SX0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1df7nkcs5nE   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPecmAL3jug     The future is now. 

Symbiosis of old and new

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The edge of things is always the most interesting place for me. Not inside. Not outside. But the in between places. The places of transition. The places where choices are made to enter. To leave. To explore. To move towards something new or old. To see something new in something old. It is worth exploring the Hespeler Public Library in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Here where the new has captured the old, both are better for it.

Greenhouses & Insulating shutters

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  Synergistic Building Technologies Insulating shutters for greenhouses may have some applications for residential homes with a view to future energy savings. With the increased interest in "smart home technologies", shutters that operate electronically may be useful for those who live in harsher climates. Synergistic Building Technologies may have several of the answers to better control of energy with window systems. Follow the link below to find new ways of providing a better life for yourself and others. Insulating shutters seem to offer a new way of looking at an old system. This greenhouse offers a giant step forward towards community self sufficiency. This technology could spark an application for homes too. At least I would hope so... homes of all kinds could benefit from such innovative light and heat control. Pocket shutters operated electronically seem like a giant leap forward. Here is the link for synergistic building technologies: http://www.syn

Change

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Change. Window treatments are about Change . Marriage, divorce, birth, death, a new home, a new apartment, a new pet, a new roommate, new paint, new wallpaper, new flooring, even new nosier neighbours all these and more are reasons to find new window coverings. Often the desire or need for new window coverings reflects an inner change. Change, whether inner or outer, can reveal itself in how we relate to our surroundings. So. What is different with you? Why do you need new window coverings? And what is it that you really want? For even the choice of window covering, curtain, shade, blind, or shutter can reveal more to you about your inner self than you might think. You will be surprised sometimes by what you really want, and inevitably it will reveal some conscious or unconscious feelings and emotions. But not always. Sometimes a blind is just a blind.