In a message dated 05/10/2000 10:22:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> Anybody got anything nominally objective about the relative merits of
>  interior window shades (especially modren, glare filtering plastic woven
>  ones) versus real, no-shit honest-to-God awnings?
>
>  My local Nat'l Register Arboretum, on the board of which I roost, wants to
>  reduce glare in our newly-restored 1889 sunporch, which had awnings in the
>  Olden Days.

Ralph-
I have a lovely picture of a local Victorian (1870s vintage currently, may
have some earlier stuff underneath, since the styling is rather wacky...
anyway) with good awnings that shade the wrap-around porch. Would you like
for to have a copy? Picture is worth a thousand words-- show them how cool
they look, and perhaps you will have better success?

Other than that, Roger Moss' book onVictorian exterior design has a good,
readable chapter on awnings.

Let me know.

-Heidi