Home&Lifestyle Autumn 2017 WEB

T his mild weather is still with us and Central Coast residents take great delight in entertaining and relaxing outdoors. With the benefit of a retractable folding arm awning, Ziptrak blind or Aluminium Shutters you can create an outdoor room that protects your home against the sun or light rain as well as creating a cosy and private ambiance. FOLDING ARM AWNING A folding arm awning is a retractable style fabric roof awning that projects horizontally from your home. It can be attached to the eaves, or to bricks. It offers great protection from the sun without having to move furniture into particular spots as is the case with an umbrella. This allows you more versatility with your outside space. A Folding Arm Awning offers great protection from the harsh summer sun, but allows you to retracted it in winter and enjoy the winter sun. When it is retracted it takes up very little space. A folding arm awning can be easily motorised, so you can be in the kitchen or out on the deck and can control it from the palm of your hand. It can also can be automated to be retracted in times of high wind when you are not around. The 3 best tips to create more outdoor space

ZIPTRAK CAFÉ BLINDS A Ziptrak external blind is one of the newest styles of external café style blinds. The fabric travels within aluminium side channels offering a sturdier alternative to the off the shelf café style blinds. The Ziptrak can easily slide up and down, similar to a window. The Ziptrak is lockable from the inside and/or outside. The side channels can be custom coloured to match your house exactly. The most popular fabrics are mesh and PVC which still allows you to enjoy a view. The quality mesh fabrics also give you privacy during the day. Surprisingly the new style of mesh fabric now lets in very little (if any) rain and wind through and turns the harsh summer sun into a gentle winter one and still allows airflow, unlike PVC. Ziptrak external blinds have been used to enclose decks and pergolas’ creating another room without it being a permanent wall at a huge expense. Ziptrak awnings are easily motorized and can be controlled with a remote control or smart phone technology.

ALUMINIUM SHUTTERS Aluminium Louvre Shutters are ideal for privacy and protection. Aluminium Shutters add the “Wow” factor to the external part of your home and with a few panels can modernise your home. We have had clients add Aluminium Shutters just down one side of a deck of their property to frame an outside area and create a completely different living space. They are ideal for giving you privacy from close neighbours, without blocking out light or airflow. Aluminium Shutters work well in apartment blocks where they can block out noise and more importantly create more living space that you wouldn’t always have or use. Aluminium Shutters can be hinged, sliding or bi-fold in operation, allowing you to slide them out of the way when not in use. Article supplied by Sharon Tieman. Director. Premier Shades. 18/482 Pacific Highway, Wyoming. Ph 0243248800.

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