South facing windows finally shaded

Hi everyone.  I have lots of south facing windows and I finally completed window shades for most of them.

A few years ago I hung a long piece of shade fabric from my south overhang fascia, trying to keep more solar gain from getting into the house. It was a disaster and got blown down by the wind right away.

Now I have repurposed that fabric into individual window shades. The shades cover the entire surface of all but two lower windows. They block out some light but all of the upper windows are open and they allow lots of light, but no direct sun, into the interior rooms. The sun line is half way up the lower windows so we were getting lots of solar gain that we didn't want. These shades solved that problem. In October as the outdoor temperature drops I'll remove the shades and store them for next year.🙂

The shades for the openable windows are attached only at the top so I can hold them to one side to open the window. I have upper openable windows also so when they both are open that natural ventilation removes heat and lets in cool morning air. 🙂 Thanks for listening!

Brilliant!