Central Coast Home & Lifestyle Winter 2023

fabric travels within aluminium side channels offering a sturdier alternative to the off the shelf café style blinds. The Ziptrak can easily slide up and down, like a window. The Ziptrak is lockable from the inside and/or outside. The side channels can be custom coloured to match your house exactly. The most popular fabrics are mesh and PVC which still allows you to enjoy a view. The quality mesh fabrics also give you privacy during the day. Surprisingly the new style of mesh fabric provides shelter from rain and harsh summer sun and still allows airflow, unlike PVC. Ziptrak external blinds have been used to enclose decks and pergolas’ creating another room without it being a permanent wall at a huge expense. Ziptrak awnings are easily motorized and can be controlled with a remote control or smart phone technology. Aluminium Louvre Shutters add the “Wow” factor to the external part of your home and with a few panels can modernise your home and offer privacy and protection. Aluminium Shutters also work well in unit blocks where they can block out noise and more importantly create more living space and can be hinged, sliding or bifold in operation, allowing you to slide them out of the way when not in use.

Protection for your outdoor space

C entral Coast residents love entertaining and relaxing outdoors. With the benefit of a retractable folding arm awning, Ziptrak blind or Aluminium Shutters you can create an outdoor room that protects your home against the sun or light rain as well as creating a cosy and private ambiance. A folding arm awning is a retractable style fabric roof awning that projects horizontally from your home. It can be attached to the

eaves, or to bricks. It offers good protection from the harsh summer sun but allows you to retract it in winter to enjoy the winter sun. When it is retracted it takes up very little space. A folding arm awning can be easily motorised, so you can control it from other rooms. It can also be automated to be retracted in times of high wind when you are not around.

A Ziptrak external blind is one of the newest styles of external café style blinds. The

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