Why Hudson
Afternoon Sun In A Mill Town
Hudson grew up around the Assabet River and the mills, and the housing near the center still shows it: tall Victorians, capes, and two-families set close along the streets that run out from Main Street. Those houses were built with porches because a porch was the air conditioning. The porch still works the way it was designed to, right up until the sun drops low enough in the west to come in under the roof. After that it is a heat lamp.
A mesh shade mounted at the porch opening catches that low sun before it reaches the seating or the front windows behind it, and the porch stays a porch. The fabric is an open weave that reads like sunglasses from the inside, and it rolls up into an aluminum housing along the header when you do not need it, so the house looks the same from the sidewalk for most of the day.
Out past the center, along Route 62 toward Stow and on the subdivisions near I-495, the problem moves to the back of the house. Decks and patios sit off the kitchen with a slider, and the sun comes across the yard straight through the glass. Putting the shade on the outside of that slider blocks up to 90 percent of the heat, because the sun never gets to the glass in the first place. No interior fabric can match that. Our exterior roller shades page covers the hardware and fabrics in detail.
Then there is Lake Boon, which Hudson shares with Stow. Porches on the water get glare bouncing up under the roof, and a slightly tighter weave on the water side takes it out while the view stays. Everything else we install in town is on our Hudson window treatments page.
