Window Treatments Interior

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Window TreatmentsInterior Exterior Components

• Exterior
• Awnings weather resistant fabrics, metal
  either material can be used to make
  adjustable/roll up components awnings can
  reduce solar heat gain through fenestration by as
  much as 75.
• Shutters temper light, heat, and cold secure
  windows against physical damage actual operable
  shutters are common in many parts of the world,
  but artifical shutters are typical in the US.
• Cutouts and Projecting Elements overhanging
  roofs, trellises, an exterior vertical element
  placed to shield the window/view from the
  interior.

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Overhangs for sun and rain protection,may be
used at doors or windows
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Grilles and Fences
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Pre-fabricated metal grillesused for
balustrades, fences, gates, room partitions
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Exterior Window Treatments(continued)

• Grilles and Fences masonry, wood, plastic, or
  metal grilles and fences placed close to windows
  or some feet away can control privacy, sun, and
  wind to any degree desired.
• Louvers ventilating panels of wood, metal, or
  plastic can be effective as sunshades and for
  weather protection. normally used over windows,
  they can substitute for glass completely in warm
  climates

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Exterior shutters that are hinged, and actually
open and close.
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Motorized exterior rolling shuttersby
Innovative Openings, Inc.
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Overhead rolling shutters
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Sliding wood doorsBodhinyanarama Buddhist
MonasteryWellington, New Zealand
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Interior Window Treatments

• Hard Treatments
• Shades
• Roller shades pull up and down, and are mounted
  on rollers. may be mounted at either the top, or
  the bottom of the window. these reduce light and
  give privacy in direct relationship to their
  thickness and translucency or opaqueness.
• Roman shades are attached to tapes that pleat
  the fabric when drawn by using cords. Roman
  shades pleat in definite horizontal lines as they
  are raised.
• they may unfold flat or in cascading loops.

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Roller shades
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Roller shade mechanism
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• Bamboo or matchstick, and woven-wood shades
• these function much like those made of fabric,
  either rolling or folding as they are raised.
  they differ in that they usually let more light
  through, and give a better view of the outside.
• Pleated shades made of a polyester web or mesh
  material they filter or block sunlight while
  remaining visually unobtrusive.
• Honeycomb pleated shades are paired, two layers,
  creating an insulating air pocket between the two
  layers of fabric.

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Bamboo matchstick shades
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• Thermal Shades constructed of multiple layers
  of insulating fabric, often surrounding a
  reflective Mylar sheet, are used to control heat
  loss or gain. they can either roll, or pleat,
  but require more space at the top of the window
  when opened because of their high bulk.
• Thermal shades can reduce heat loss/gain by up to
  80.
• The drawbacks of shades include the fact that
  when pulled down they cut out the light from the
  top of the window first. shades can also block a
  breeze, or whip around in the wind.

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Thermal shades left thick, bulkyright with
outward facing reflective Mylar coating
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Cellular shades
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• Blinds
• Horizontal venetian, mini, micro these are
  horizontal oriented slats of wood, metal, or
  plastic. venetian blinds are typically 2 slats
  mini blinds are typically 1 slats, and micro
  blinds are typically 1/2 slats.
• All of these horizontally oriented blinds collect
  dust and dirt, and are somewhat difficult to
  clean.
• Vertical blinds of metal, wood, vinyl, or
  fabric. vertical blinds collect much less dust
  and dirt than horizontal blinds.

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venetian blinds
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mini blinds
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• Grilles, Screens, Panels used when windows are
  unatractive, or when views are not desired.
  screens may fold back, slide on a track, or
  remain stationary. screens filled with
  translucent material are called shoji by the
  Japanese.
• stained glass, beveled, or leaded glass, wood, or
  vinyl lattice panels are all used as materials to
  construct interior window panels.

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• Shutters fixed or moveable panels or wood slats
  or louvers on a framework, hinged to the window
  frame. most louvers are 1 wide, but plantation
  shutters are a louver that is typically 2 wide.
  shutters are generally more initially expensive
  than fabric window treatments but across the life
  span of the sutter the initial cost is more than
  repaid.
• Bare windows when windows are well designed,
  and the relationship to the outside is carefully
  considered, additional window treatments may be
  unnecessary. even so, a bare window becomes a
  black reflective surface at night, and it permits
  an unobstructed view into the interior
  environment.

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plantation shutterstypically made of wood
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• Soft Window Treatments
• in addition to flexibly controlling privacy,
  light, , and heat, curtains and draperies soak up
  noise in proportion to the area they cover, the
  thickness of the fabric, and the depth of the
  folds.
• Curtains usually of lightweight, unlined fabric
  that filters and diffuses light. curtains are
  used either alone, or under drapery, hung next to
  the glass.
• Sheers thin, often sheer or semisheer fabrics,
  hung closest to the glass.

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• Sash curtains a type of curtain hung on the
  window sash. they can be stretched taut between
  rods at the top and the bottom of the window
  sashes, or hung in loose folds. they are often
  used on doors that contain windows.
• Draw curtains usually of translucent or
  lightweight opaque fabrics, are mounted on
  traverse rods that provide a pulley mechanism
  that allows the curtain to be drawn, or pulled,
  open or closed.
• Casement curtains open weave fabric usually more
  opaque than a sheer. may be used alone or under
  drapery and may also be mounted on traverse rods.

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sash curtains
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• Draperies are any loosely hung (not stretched)
  fabric. (this term really includes all curtains)
  generally, draperies are thought of as heavy,
  opaque fabrics that can be drawn or that stand
  idly at the sides of windows purely for
  decoration. draperies should be lined if not used
  with sheers.
• Cornices rigid horizontal bands several inches
  dep placed at the window top to conceal curtain
  tops and the rods from which they hang.
  constructed of wood, they are somwhat
  architectural in feeling and relate window
  treatment to walls and ceiling. upholstered
  cornices are padded and covered with fabric.

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• Valences made of fabric draped across or
  covering a rod or shaped form at the tops of the
  windows. they are more closely allied with the
  drapery than with the wall, and are decorative in
  nature. valences are open at the top.
• Portieres these are currtains or draperies hung
  in open doorways or arches between interior
  spaces, often tied back or let down for privacy
  or insulation.

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valences
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Measuring and Estimating

• Rough estimate of fabric needed
• measure the width of the window, including any
  wall space to be covered. multiply this figure
  by 2, or by 3, to provide adequate fullness (the
  lighter weight the fabric, the fuller it should
  be)
• divide the width of the fabric that is to be used
  and round the answer to the next larger whole
  number. (common widths for drapery fabric are 45
  and 50 inches
• the result is the number of panels of fabric
  needed.
• Next measure the height of the window in
  inches, including the wall space above, and below
  that will be covered. add 16 to 18 inches to
  allow for generous hems (a double 4 heading at
  the top, and a double 4 hem at the bottom).
• the yardage required for the window is the
  product of the number of panels needed multiplied
  by the total length needed.

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• divide by 36 to convert inches to yards.