I think this came out well. My house is built around an open air atrium. It’s like 15’ X 13.5’ , There are sliding doors into it from both the living room and the master bedroom plus a window in the entryway and another in the kitchen the looks into the atrium. It is a really cool thing to have; especially for outdoor living in the wintertime. We put a hot tub and a chiminea in there for winter and it’s great. The issue is in the summer, it gets hotter’n hades in there. So I built a shade fabric screen, two of them actually, to cover it from PVC pipe reinforced with a strip of wood and PVC clips and ... you guessed it: shade fabric, like used in many plant and garden centers. I put eye bolts in at the top to anchor the thing to and had a beam put across the top of the atriums opening to drape the fabric over. It cuts the temp in there by almost 15 degrees and gives you some good shade instead of the blazing sun. Check out the pics. First one is looking into the atrium from the master bedroom. Pic 2 shows the open air top of the atrium and the one side of the connection of the shade panel to the top of the atrium itself. Pics 3 and 4 shows the two shade panels stretched across the beam and anchored in on the eye bolts using some Godzilla-like zip ties.
I think my home made shade screen came out very well! The hardest part was crawling my old self up there and hooking everything up whilst laid out on my belly and trying not to slide off the roof. It’s really a balancing act to get the two panels aligned and requires back and forth adjustments all done crawling in your belly or scooting on your butt back and forth on that roof. But it’s done! Next year, I may pay some kid to do the labor part while I sit inside the atrium in s comfortable lawn chair with a mint julep or something and direct the attachment of the shade panels.
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I think my home made shade screen came out very well! The hardest part was crawling my old self up there and hooking everything up whilst laid out on my belly and trying not to slide off the roof. It’s really a balancing act to get the two panels aligned and requires back and forth adjustments all done crawling in your belly or scooting on your butt back and forth on that roof. But it’s done! Next year, I may pay some kid to do the labor part while I sit inside the atrium in s comfortable lawn chair with a mint julep or something and direct the attachment of the shade panels.
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