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Want to Extend your Outdoor Living Space? Open Up with Breezway!
Breezway Altair Louver Windows can be used to enclose outdoor balconies so you can create extra year round living space for the whole family to enjoy. Not only do Altair Louvers in outdoor rooms provide extra living space, but they can also act as a primary noise...
If You Can’t Stand the Heat Get Some Louvers in the Kitchen
Keep your kitchen smelling fresh with Altair Louver Windows. With blades that open close to horizontal you can flush out cooking smells quickly and easily. Not only do they keep your area smelling fresh but they are aesthetically pleasing to the eye so you can feel...
Sleep Comfortably at Night with Breezway Louver Windows
What every bedroom needs is a breath of fresh air. And the best way to get lots of fresh air inside your bedroom is with Altair Louver Windows. Fully open, Altair Louver blades are close to horizontal, thereby allowing maximum ventilation in through the window opening...
Generate Fresh Air in your Living and Dining Rooms
Altair Louver Windows in the lounge room ought to be compulsory. Okay, we might be a little biased about that. But think about it. Is there a better, cheaper or more stylish way to have complete control of the air flowing through your living area? We think not. And...
Automated Windows are best for High Level Natural Ventilation
The fact that air rises as it heats up has been used for centuries as a way to draw fresh, cooler air into a building. This is one of the prime reasons that double height voids and windows positioned close to the ceiling are common features of naturally comfortable...
Cleaning Louver Windows Made Easy!
Cleaning windows. It’s not a very exciting topic. But no-one wants their view obscured by dirty windows so it’s a topic worth considering nonetheless. Cleaning the inside of a window is straightforward but, if you’re not on the ground floor, cleaning the outside of a...
Obscure Glass Louver Window Blades
One of the best reasons to use Breezway Altair Louver Windows in bathrooms is their ability to offer both privacy and ventilation simultaneously. I've written about this before in the news article titled Two practical reasons why Breezway should be used in the...
Usable Outdoor Living Space with Breezway Louver Windows
People love being outdoors. We love outdoor sports. We love barbecues. We love camping. We love the beach, so it’s not surprising that we love our homes to include outdoor living spaces too. These outdoor living spaces always have some form of protection to create...
Louver Window Handle Positions – Six Things To Consider
One of the aspects about our business of which we are particularly proud is that we custom-make every order. This allows us to offer a variety of customizing choices to meet the varying needs of our customers. Not all of our customers make use of these customizing...
Light and Shadow when using Breezway Louver Windows
Light and Shadow when using Breezway Louver Windows
With almost the entire eastern façade of the Breezway Head Office (in Australia) made up of a wall of Breezway Altair Louver Windows there are two characteristics of our building that most visitors comment on….1) How pleasant it is to feel the breeze and 2) How much natural light streams into our building.
There’s another aspect that I really enjoy which few visitors get to see because it only happens first thing in the morning when the sun is low in the sky – and that is the light patterns caused by the angled, open blades.
Our Breezway Louver Windows have green tinted glass blades to reduce the amount of heat entering the building in the form of sunlight. The sunlight passing through the tinted blades and the sunlight passing between the tinted blades forms geometric patterns on the walls and floors.
Comparing the energy efficiency of ‘Esky’ buildings
Years ago I attended a week long training course in the conference center of a large hotel right on the beachfront. The food was pretty good but the conference room felt a bit like a dungeon! There were no windows at all and one of the presenters had this cruel theory...
Enjoy the day while reducing your electricity bill
Enjoy the day while reducing your electricity bill – open your office windows!
It’s a beautiful winter’s day in Brisbane today: blue skies, 23C with a breeze blowing from the west. Unlike most other office workers around the city today, I can actually feel the breeze. It’s not because I’m working outside though, it’s because the air conditioning is off and the office windows are open. No, I don’t work in a small home office, the Breezway head office here in the suburb of Coorparoo has a floor area of 660m2 spread over 3 floors.