Patio screens in University Park · Texas
Deep lots, close neighbors, and a loggia that wants shade.
University Park patios are built into the house: a covered loggia off the kitchen, a pool a few steps away, and a neighbor’s wall not far beyond it. Screens there do three jobs at once, sun, insects and privacy, and more of our work is in the Park Cities than anywhere else. We measure, make and install from Farmers Branch, about twenty minutes down the Tollway.
The houses, and what suits them.
Limestone and painted brick on deep, narrow lots; two-story elevations with the patio under a balcony or a loggia; pools close to the house; openings framed by stone piers or arches. The screens go between the piers, inside the arch, or across the full width of the loggia, and they are often the only thing between the patio and the neighbor’s second-floor windows.
Light on light, dark for the view.
Light fabrics, alpaca and stucco tones, on the limestone and the painted brick, so the screens read as part of the house from the pool. Black where the opening looks out over the yard and the view is the point.
Compare the fabrics →Five steps, one firm from the first call.
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The call
Fifteen minutes about the patio, which way it faces and what you want from it.
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The visit
We come to University Park with the samples, measure every opening and check power and the slab.
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The design
Fabric per opening, screens or panels, how they are controlled, and one written price.
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Made to measure
Each screen is made in Richardson to your openings, three to four weeks.
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Installed
The same people who measured install, usually in a day, and set every screen to stop at the same line.
What University Park homeowners ask us first.
Will screens give us privacy from the neighbors?
Yes. A 95 or 97 fabric reads as a solid wall from outside in daylight while you see out through it, which is why so many Park Cities loggias have them. At night, with the patio lit, the effect reverses, so the screens are a daytime privacy answer and a full-time sun and insect answer.
Can a screen fit an arched opening?
It mounts above the arch and covers it as a rectangle when down, then disappears into its housing. The limestone arches in our gallery are a University Park house.
Can screens go on a house that is already finished?
Yes, and most of our work is. The housing surface-mounts above the opening and the side tracks go on the face of the posts or jambs, with 120 V brought to the motor end. Recessed, hidden housings are for new construction, planned before the ceiling closes.
Can the screens run on the house system?
Yes. Blue Note A/V, our parent company, programs ELAN and Control4, so the screens sit on the same keypads and app as the lighting and the interior shades, with a wind sensor that raises them on its own.
How long does it take?
Three to four weeks from the deposit to installation, most of it the screens being made to your measurements in Richardson. Installation is usually a day.
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Start with the free call.
Fifteen minutes tells us both whether screens are the right answer for the patio, and roughly what they involve. No payment, no obligation.
Telephone
214 865 9936Showroom
11410 Mathis Ave, Office 1, Farmers Branch, TX 75234 — our showroom. Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm, by appointment
Send a few photographs of the openings and which way they face. That is usually enough for a first answer.
The inquiry form →Screens on the same keypads as the rest of the house, programmed by the same firm.
Blue Note A/V →