Realtors will tell you the first step in selling your home is to update your street appeal. Trimming shrubbery, cutting down broken branches, mowing the lawn, planting flowers, and re-painting trim are all great ideas. But whether you are selling your home or not, the addition of shade solutions will add personality and polish to your street appeal. Besides helping to reduce utility costs by shielding windows from heat and direct sun, awnings can enhance and highlight the architectural styling of your home.
Consider a straightforward adobe-look or territorial style, so common in New Mexico. The look is simple, understated, and blends with the desert colors of the earth. Awnings can play off that style with neutral colors and the simple design of box awnings or sloped retractable awnings. But the rounded design of a dome awning over each window, or a long domed awning covering 2 windows brings a little play and styling to your home’s street appeal. They also help your home stand out from others, and can add charm and desirability to the street appeal. A pop of color that complements neutral stucco coloring in a sage green or deeper tones of rust, oranges, copper can also play into highlighting desert color.
Awnings and shade solutions for the home also shield areas from heat and the intense desert sun, and help to regulate fluctuating temperatures indoors. Enhance your home’s street appeal and save on energy usage too.Awnings can offer as much protection in the winter months as they do in the summer. In the warm months we look for shade, protection from the intense desert sun and the cooler surfaces that awnings provide. Awnings over windows shield the glass from direct sun, thereby reducing heat rising indoors. Covered doorways offer a protected area for guests, or staff and customers for a business. We sometimes forget what winter can bring in New Mexico.
