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How Drapes Help Keep You Cool in the Summer in New Jersey

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When the summers are scorching hot, it isn't unexpected for your home interiors to feel much hotter than usual as well. The peak hours of the day might have the sunlight penetrating your windows and heating up the room to an unbearable temperature. This is when your drapes come to the rescue. While keeping your curtains and blinds closed might help, you could opt for custom drapery that would be more beneficial.

If you're particular about the interior design of your home, custom drapery lets you customize what you want your drapes to look like while making them efficient for the summers. Right from the color, fabric, and design, custom drapery will suit your decorative needs. It is possible to reduce heat gains by almost 33% with medium-colored draperies with white plastic backings.

With a backing layer, the heat gain is reduced during the summer. The backing can also be a thin foam material that reduces outdoor noises getting into the room like a sound barrier. When the sunlight during the peak hours of the day gets in through the windows, the air within your home gets warmed. If you were to use an air conditioner, you would have to keep it on for longer to cool the temperature, leading to increased energy consumption and costs. However, if you close the drapes at that time of the day, it insulates the heat from entering and ensures a cooler environment.

Drapes, unlike curtains, are made of high-quality, heavy fabric, with lining that doesn't let the fabric fade over time with constant exposure to sunlight. This keeps the light and heats out to provide a more comfortable, yet classy interior. With white or light-colored drapes, there is a better reflection of heat and light away. The thicker material of drapes makes it difficult for the blazing sunlight to penetrate or heat up your home. Regardless of your choice of light-colored or dark-colored drapes, with a white backing, the sun's UV rays get prevented from entering your home.

If you're looking for a classy, modern look, or you simply want your drapes to suit the rest of your interior, custom drapery gives you the options of colors and patterns to satisfy you and provide energy efficiency.

Window Treats Inc in Red Bank New Jersey also has a showroom in Brooklyn New York and offers Hunter Douglas window treatments including curtains, blinds, shades, drapery, and shutters. These can all be made into motorized blinds, shades, and drapery, and integrated into a home automation system. Window Treats proudly serves the surrounding areas, including Allenhurst, Asbury Park, Colts Neck, Deal, Eatontown, Elberon, Fair Haven, Freehold, Holmdel, Lakewood, Little Silver, Lincroft, Middletown, Monmouth Beach, Oakhurst & Ocean Township, Rumson, Shrewsbury, Spring Lake, Tinton Falls and Toms River. Our team is often called upon to serve the tri-state area as well including Brooklyn and Manhattan (New York City).