We recently sold several Markilux 730 Drop-Arm Window Awnings to a customer in Portola Valley here in the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. Our customers had acquired a Markilux 990 full cassette awning last year for their deck, and loved it so much they came back to us for exterior window awnings to help protect their interior rooms from the sun.
The Markilux 730 Drop-Arm Window Awning is a very sleek design, and perfect for situations where you want to shade a window from the sun without completely blocking your view, and also allowing ambient light and the breeze to come into your house - a perfect "green" solution to keeping your house cool! This type of exterior window treatment is used all over Europe and provides a very nice, elegant solution for shade. What’s nice about them is that the fabric rolls up completely into the cassette, which is mounted above the window on the exterior of the building – making them very unobtrusive when retracted.
The Markilux 730 Drop-Arm Window Awning can be had with a remote control motor, or built to operate manually with a winding handle that allows the operation of the awning from inside the building through a very small gearbox that comes in from the outside into the interior of the house. You can read more about this great window awning here: http://www.markiluxawnings.com/Markilux-730-830-Drop-Arm-Cassette-Window-Awning
In the case of our customers on the Peninsula just north of Silicon Valley, they choose to motorize the window awning which was the largest of the three, and to have the other two smaller window awnings operate manually. They choose to match the awning fabric and cassette color of their existing Markilux 990 full cassette deck awning, so all of their shade solutions match beautifully.
The deck awning and the window awnings provide a really nice look to their house – check out some of the photos of the installation on our Gallery: http://www.markiluxawnings.com/Photos-Of-Retractable-Awning-Installations .
Our customers are thrilled with the beautiful look and the shade the awnings provide - look for their customer testimonial on our website soon!
