Why Lincoln
Big Glass Faces Big Sun
Lincoln's modernist houses share one design decision: a long wall of glass facing the land, and on the houses that call us, a deep roof overhang above it. That overhang was meant to handle the sun, and it does in June when the sun is high. In September, and on every afternoon when the sun drops toward the tree line, the light comes in under the overhang and across the whole floor. The room heats up, the furniture fades, and the view you paid for ends up behind a curtain.
The overhang is also the answer. It gives an exterior shade something to mount to. The housing sits along the fascia, the mesh drops in front of the glass, and up to 90 percent of the solar heat stops there because the sun never reaches the glass. From inside, an open weave looks like a pair of sunglasses. The woods are still there. Details on the fabrics and hardware are on our exterior roller shades page.
Older Lincoln is farmhouses and colonials near the town center by the commuter rail and along the roads that run out to the conservation land, many of them with a screened porch on the west or south side. Screen stops bugs and does nothing for heat. A mesh shade on the outside of the screened wall turns a porch you abandon at three into a porch you eat dinner on.
Those glass walls are wide in the literal sense, and anything over about eight feet should be motorized. A motor also lets the shade retract for winter in about ten seconds, and a wind sensor pulls it up on its own when a gust comes across the fields.
