Some Color and Heat Protection

The "main" picture is in our west-facing laundry room. I really like the colors. (This is the window where I intend to paint a peacock, but I am too busy right now!)

So I have been busy this morning getting windows ready for the summer sun on the west side of the house, as well as two windows on the north side of the house where we would rather have light coming in and so I just took the blinds down! (Note: The left small piece is part of an experiment. I wanted more blue, so I colored some of the stones blue. I think that the blue might be a little intense, but I like it better over all.)

I am experimenting in the garage -- you will see three windows. The left window has colored window film plus special heat-reducing film, the middle window has only the colored film, and the right window is "au natural." Then you can see the outside view, where, unexpectedly, the reflective quality of the heat-reducing film has brightened the colors of the colored film on the one window. Hmm!