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An outdoor shade is a vertical fabric screen mounted outside the house – over a window, on a patio edge, or across an opening – that blocks sun before it reaches glass or people. Where an awning shades from above, an outdoor shade works face-on, which makes it the answer to the one problem overhead...

A fabric awning collects everything Denver's air carries – dust, pollen, cottonwood fluff, bird droppings – and the wrong cleaning method does more damage than the dirt. After 45 years of installing and re-covering awnings on the Front Range, we have seen more fabric killed by aggressive cleaning than by weather. Here is the method...

A west-facing Denver deck can hit unusable by 2 p.m. from June to September. The internet's cooling lists treat a misting fan and a shade structure as equals; they are not. Here are the seven fixes ranked by degrees earned, from a company that has been shading Front Range patios since 1979. 1. Put shade...

"Awning" covers everything from a hand-cranked window shade to a motorized 40-foot pergola roof, and picking the wrong type is the most expensive mistake in shading. Here are all nine types we install or get asked about, what each does best, and the four questions that sort out which one belongs on your building. The...

Air conditioning fights a battle it should never have been in: sunlight pours heat in at the glass all afternoon, and the AC pumps it back out at your expense. An awning intercepts that heat before it gets inside – and the numbers on what that is worth are better documented than most home upgrades....

What if I told you there was an investment you could make in your home which would increase its value by hundreds of thousands of dollars? Maybe a million? If you’re wondering whether the professional installation of a beautiful new retractable awning could increase your home’s value by a million dollars, I’m here to tell...