Window Covering Answers

More Art at the Window I found this delightful new window covering using old slides. Who knows how long these slides would keep their colour in the window but it is worth a try. The effect is quite interesting and lively. Here is the link: http://gizmodo.com/5472389/old-film-slides-give-your-windows-a-stained-glass-effect

Art at the Window. So. Branching out a little, let us look at other more unusual ways to cover a window. I get a particular thrill when an artist uses a window to cover a window. Or when an artist uses ART to cover a window. In the small photo below -  artist, Bea Moore, uses glass and beads to transform a window. For some views this piece of art with the light shining through it would transform the mundane into marvellous. http://www.flickr.com/photos/onebeamoore/page3/   See another version of windows for a window at the link below on Flicker.   http://www.flickr.com/photos/klepps/3513534420/in/set-72157624796620329 And of course this surprising blind... which is quite delightful! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfJ2NNIsKc

FREE ENERGY and Window Coverings and Nanotechnology Eventually our need for window coverings will cease.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsuB-6-n-MM   Justin Hall-Tipping talks about how energy may very soon be created by nanotechnology. Scientists, creative geniuses that they are, have come up with a new style of window that incorporates energy generation. This is one of the TED talks that reminds us all how important Science is to all of us. Free energy. Imagine that. Imagine how life will improve for all of us.  So very inspirational. It has been my dream too. That one day we would have window coverings that generated electricity. Now some very clever people have been working to create just such a reality.

Great window coverings on Pinterest I find that I am spending way too much time on this site.  Addictive in nature it is also an excellent site to view blinds, and window coverings. It is all there in delightful colour and great photos. So here is the address for my board and my secret desires but don't stop there there are so many excellent boards for window coverings and blinds.... a veritable bounty of ideas. Everything from do it yourself ideas for window coverings to high, high end window coverings in elegant palaces. Even window coverings from around the world. This site is a designer's delight! http://www.pinterest.com/kundalini88/blinds-window-coverings/pins/ http://www.pinterest.com/pin/529595237403019981/   I just had to add one more.  You will find a great many other BOARDS that have a multitude of images. Enjoy.

Shutters for the Sub Arctic   Although the video is short and the information a little scanty, I thought it might prove useful to those who are interested in outside shutters that work. In other times, shutters were the window coverings of choice. Nowadays they are usually  merely ornamental in nature. Here is a product that seems to offer a different vision of how to save energy at the window.   Fairbanks, Alaska www.farrellhomebuilding.com   These shutters are moveable and completely cover the windows, which in the sub arctic is a really good idea given the wintry conditions and low, low temperatures.  

blinds that inspire     http://www.creativelydifferentblinds.com/AroundBritainBath/PulteneyWeirBathEvening.aspx   I have been wondering why we don't have these in North America. These designs and blinds are exactly what I have been dreaming of for years, and years.    Blinds that look like ART! What a great idea!  http://www.creativelydifferentblinds.com/AroundBritainBath/PulteneyBridgeBathautumn.aspx How about these? These are a miniscule selection of great designs that can be placed on a blind from Creatively Different Designer Blinds.  You can reach them here. http://www.creativelydifferentblinds.com/ Well worth looking up! Not only are the blind designs great there are so many to choose from.... what great inspiration to put something at the window that looks like these! I am hoping they come to North America soon.

Solarize Inflector Window Systems.     It gets cold in Maine. Really cold. This product is a great testament to the reality that Yankee ingenuity still lives.  I don't know when I have been so thrilled with a product. This seems like a great answer to those of us who live in cold climates and who need greater savings on our energy costs.     http://www.shoreenergy.ca/inflector_blinds.html http://solarizewindowinsulators.com/