One way to give this look a boost is to remove entirely the concept of window coverings from the interior of your home, and opt for external venetian blinds instead. This can really elevate the sense of modern, while offering a point of geometric interest and refinement.

Not just for aesthetics though, externally mounted blinds give you far better heat reduction, dramatically minimising the heat entering your glazed windows in the first place. With less artificial cooling needed, external venetian blinds make for an eco-friendlier option than interior blinds. If this sounds like something you’d like to know more about, then Shade Factor is the company you need.

Shade Factor is a leading Australian specialist in custom-made, high-performance and durable shading products for residential and commercial buildings. Since 1998, it has been trusted to deliver comprehensive solutions for architects, builders and homeowners through years of industry experience, advanced technical knowledge, precision German manufacturing, rigorously engineered products and a focus on client-centred service. Shade Factor is also the exclusive distributor of Warema in Australia.

The German-engineered, highly innovative and premium-quality Warema range leads the world in blind and sunshading manufacturing, with internationally award-winning designs and a range of external venetian blinds for your windows. These blinds deliver a spectacular look for your home, while their insulating properties create a comfortable, energy-efficient interior. You can still enjoy the view from the inside while controlling the intensity of natural light via the tilting slats, and combined with sophisticated climate monitoring and automation, external venetians become a living element of the facade, adapting and moving to maintain optimum light and internal comfort.

An outstanding proposition, Warema’s external venetian blinds won the Red Dot Design Award 2022 for the dim-out Zetra slat, which blocks out light almost as much as a roller shutter and is perfect for when you want to darken rooms such as bedrooms or media rooms, while their innovative graduated slat ProVisio technology increases the view by 25 per cent compared with conventional external venetians, and enhances privacy from the outside looking in.

Warema external venetian blinds come in a variety of slat profiles and can be perforated to provide views even in the closed position. The perfect customisable solution available in 22 standard colours or a bespoke colour of your choice, the blinds disappear into custom-made pelmets for a seamless finish.

If your design incorporates angled windows, Warema external venetian blinds are made-to-order in Germany and can accommodate a large range of sizes and shapes. The blinds are engineered to exacting standards, with a high level of attention to detail so you can be sure the product you receive is a perfect fit.

Through design innovation, Warema has resolved a range of issues, including the question of corners. In modern architecture, all-glass corner windows are a feature and to give the glass facades an attractive shading solution, Warema developed special external venetian blinds for corner positions. With these blinds, no guide rails or tension cables intervene in the aesthetics, while unobtrusive corner joints on the slats ensure a harmonious appearance without affecting the standard tilting behaviour.

With more than 20 years of successful collaboration in bespoke projects large and small, Shade Factor is highly recommended by the people who matter most — their customers. The Shade Factor team can help with everything from consultation and product advice through to project planning and expert installation across Australia.

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Say goodbye to heat, wind and glare and say hello to a cozy and comfortable extension of your living area. With Soltis Veozip, you can enjoy your outdoor area to the fullest without any worries.

A Functional Solution

Soltis Veozip is manufactured to offer the ultimate outdoor experience. It does this by providing optimum thermal and visual comfort, allowing you to enjoy your outdoor space without excessive heat and without straining your eyes. Soltis Veozip blocks up to 95% of harmful UV radiation while still providing unmatched transparency, this will ensure that you and your family stay protected from the harsh effects of the sun without losing your view.

A Sleek & Modern Design

Soltis Veozip is not just a functional solution, but also a style statement. Made in Europe, its design provides a modern appeal. With its ZIP system for easy installation and a sleek and contemporary design, Soltis Veozip elevates the look of any outdoor space, making it look more sophisticated and stylish.

Environmentally Friendly

On top of its practical benefits, Soltis Veozip is also environmentally friendly. With a hemp-based composition, it’s the ideal choice for individuals who aim to lower their carbon footprint and have a positive impact on the environment. Hemp grows quickly and requires less water and pesticides compared to conventional crops, making it a more eco-friendly and responsible choice.

From providing superior thermal and visual comfort, to being an environmentally friendly solution, Soltis Veozip is the perfect blind mesh for you to extend your living spaces. Take advantage of these major benefits and choose Soltis Veozip for your home today.

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In order to fully appreciate all the entertaining opportunities that the warmer weather brings, we can’t overstate the importance of setting the scene for ideal comfort. That’s where Tuiss Blinds Online comes in. The latest range of outdoor window and patio blinds makes the difference between a good outdoor entertaining space, and an amazing one.

Designed specifically for patios and alfresco dining areas, the Tuiss outdoor patio blinds keep you shielded from the sun, wind and rain, allowing you to relax in comfort in your outdoor space, even keeping pesky mosquitos away.

Offering UV protection that keeps your furniture from fading and the option between motorized or a manual crank mechanism for almost effortless raising and lowering, these blinds are available in a number of stylish shades, allowing you to transform your outdoor space and enjoy it to its full potential all year round.

The screen fabrics offer both privacy and light, so that you’ll be able to shade your patio beautifully without losing touch with the world outside. A 1% opening in the weave means sunlight will still filter through so that you can enjoy the view without the glare, while at the same time enjoying a bit of privacy.

However, if you don’t want to lose any of your view, the clear Café Blinds might be for you. Specifically engineered for our harsh Australian conditions they are perfect to make the most of your outdoor areas, all year round while allowing you a full view to your garden.

Clear outdoor blinds allow you to dine alfresco without needing to worry about the wind or rain interrupting the festivities. The marine grade premium PVC offers outstanding clarity, so your view to the outdoors remains unobstructed. These windproof and waterproof outdoor blinds offer incredibly flexibility with regards to how outdoor spaces are utilized in various weather environments, while the contemporary design and premium finishes enhance the look of your outdoor areas as well.

The best part about all of this is how incredibly easy Tuiss Blinds Online make the entire process of ordering and fitting their blinds. These made to measure blinds are ordered through the Tuiss website – a process that is made unbelievably simple with their handy measuring and fitting guides. Your blinds arrive with easy-to-follow step-by-step installation instructions, meaning there is no need for specialist fitters or equipment, saving you both time and money! There are also a couple Express options if you can’t wait and want your outdoor blinds dispatched as fast as possible.

Explore the full range of outdoor blinds from Tuiss today.

https://www.blindsonline.com.au/outdoor-blinds/

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We all love a blue sky and a light breeze – but here in Australia, our sun can be unforgiving. We receive much higher amounts of UV radiation than Europe or the USA, and too much sun exposure can do serious damage to our skin.

The addition outdoor umbrella on your deck, backyard or patio this summer can help to protect you and your loved ones from harsh rays. Enjoying the outdoors all afternoon without the danger of prolonged sun exposure.

At Cosh Living, we represent luxurious Belgian brand Jardinico, who specialise in high quality umbrellas for residential homes, hotels and resorts. With more than 15 years of experience, Jardinico combine style and functionality to produce a range of umbrellas that suit every home.

There are two main styles of umbrella to decide between, based on your needs. A Centre Pole umbrella and a Cantilever or ‘Side Pole’ umbrella.

Caractere Centre Pole Umbrella

A centre pole is the classic style most would imagine when picturing an outdoor umbrella – a single, straight pole topped by a canopy, and grounded by a base.  This style of umbrella works perfectly to protect you from overhead sunshine at the hottest parts of the day. With wheels on the base, you can move the umbrella to the desired location.

It is important to keep in mind that the centre pole umbrella may not cover you when the sun is low in the sky. If you have a garden space or courtyard which is protected on the sides by walls, or fences – the sun may disappear from view in the afternoon, so the centre pole may be all you need. Thankfully this low sun is not the hot, scorching rays, but it will still be radiating UV.

The Centre Poles are available in a range of stylish, monochromatic tones. Shop here. 

Caractere Side Pole Umbrella

If you have an open outdoor space which receives a lot of sun throughout the day, you may be better served with a cantilever or ‘Side Pole’ umbrella. These umbrellas feature a large base with a pole that reaches to one side. The canopy cantilevers out, and allows maximum shade without the interference of a pole.

The Caractere Side Pole umbrella by Jardinico is highly flexible. Sitting on a base with lockable wheels, you can move to where it is needed at any time. The most popular canopy size is 3m x 3m fully open, and is enough to cover a large dining setting our lounge area. The Caractere can spin 360 degrees on the base, just push the lever with your foot and spin. One of the most exciting features of this umbrella is that the 3m canopy can also tilt left and right. Using the handle on the pole, the canopy tilts – being able to shade you from those lower rays coming in from the sides! The canopy can also be moved up and down, and locked anywhere on the pole.

The Caractere is now available in a contemporary base option – a beautiful grey granite.

Wherever the sun is – our outdoor umbrellas have you covered. All materials are tested for water exposure, UV resilience, mould and mildew resistance.

Wherever the sun is – our outdoor umbrellas have you covered. All materials are tested for water exposure, UV resilience, mould and mildew resistance.

If your umbrella is by the ocean or pool – chlorine and sea salt will need to be regularly removed with a hose or bucket of water to keep it looking great and functioning at its best.

All of the above umbrellas are on wheels, and must be locked at all times when not in the process of being moved.

If you need assistance choosing the right umbrella for your home, get in touch with our friendly showroom staff here. We have five showrooms Australia wide, including Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and two locations in Melbourne, Richmond and Cheltenham.

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Shade Factor works from first principles to understand the complex needs of architectural design, and apply rigorous thinking to develop big ideas, listen and understand to realise a vision.

Shade Factor has a large amount of experience and a talented design eye. Their team has proven architectural and engineering skills focused on high-level solutions. They design from the ground up, sketching and drawing, with a design that is then developed and implemented into a factory process. By thinking critically about what our customers are trying to achieve, we ensure that good concepts become good products perfectly implemented in a project’s building fabric.

With Shadefactor, you are in good hands and can be sure you are making the right choice.

Shade Factor’s relationship with Warema

Shade Factor is proud to work with one of the largest blind companies in the world – the Warema Group. Steeped in the tradition of specialised family businesses started in small Bavarian towns, Warema is a proud and passionate family-held business with more than 60 years’ experience. Warema is renowned worldwide as the industry leader in technically advanced sun shading.

Employing around 4800 staff – many from the small town in Germany where they are still based – Warema produces 3000 external venetians blinds every day. The company remains family-run with high standards of German technology excellence.

Shade Factor’s relationship with Warema began in 1998, to procure a product for a customer that was more specialised than the Australian market could offer. From this, a longstanding partnership developed.

Warema was known to be far ahead in terms of the innovation, approach, and production. Shade Factor began to work collaboratively with Warema’s engineers, designers and production teams to source premium products that are recognised internationally.

Consequently, Shade Factor could offer more variants of products that were on the periphery in Australia, and that led to more complex projects, buildings and technology in ways that were not generally available elsewhere. Today, Warema is an extension of our own team; technically rich, and highly supportive.

High-Performance Products

The requirements of the Australian market and the ever-increasing demand for sustainable sun shading products have increased significantly and Shade Factor is in a great position to continue to offer more tailored solutions for a range of design requirements.

Shade Factor has provided shade engineering for many iconic projects over the life of the company. This includes trapezoidal blinds for the famous and controversial shard of Federation Square, to a myriad of complex shapes tailored to the façade geometry in John Wardle Architects’ innovative tower in the Sydney CBD.

At the iconic Sixty Martin Place project in central Sydney, we partnered with Lendlease and Hassell architects to supply 2800 blinds over 31 levels driven by a Warema KNX control system.

These high-performance products carefully balance the panoramic views of Sydney Harbour with the thermal performance requirements of the façade. Shae Factor is proud that our response was a major contributor to the achievement of a highly energy-efficient six-star Green Star rating for the project.

Design Expertise

Projects like these two don’t simply materialise out of thin air – they are the result of our hard work and the relevant industry expertise. These projects are perfect examples of what Shade Factor does best – creative problem-solving and producing high-quality products. Across the entire team, Shade Factor gets a real thrill from testing and solving complex problems, and then using their engineering know-how and First Principles design to create the best technical solution.

From sketching designs by hand to providing rich documentation, Shade Factor is a team of passionate people that loves ideas and creative purpose. By providing a holistic approach, they don’t simply sell blinds, they sell value with a better solution.

Regardless of the client, Shade Factor’s approach is the same. They listen, learn and become an extension of their customer, and then apply the practical skill to problem-solving. Shade Factor believes this is the only way to offer a completely unique solution that reflects all considerations and requirements – regardless of scale, size and building type.

A Great Future

Shade Factor is at the forefront of a growing industry both globally and locally. They are thrilled to see the building energy performance increase in line with international commitments to address climate change.

Increased demands on energy efficiency mean more opportunities to innovate and experiment with our products in concert with better window products, better control systems and higher performance elements within many components of the building envelope. Shade Factor is proud to be a leading contributor to the buildings of the future.

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