THE PROBLEM

Our mid-century modern living room has a giant wall of west facing desert windows.
The mountain view is spectacular but all afternoon the sun pours in.

We used hospital track to curtain other rooms, but curtain hardware would have ruined this room's lines. But electric bills were ruining our mood, not to mention the carbon footprint that was ruining the earth, the very thing we were viewing.

Considered outdoor curtain$ (excellent for insulation) but spendy, complicated to install, plus they'd get trashed in one season because of the extreme winds.

A left over piece of this new-fangled radiant barrier, silver coated bubblewrap-esque, energy star rated insulation caught our eye. (leftover from insulating a wall we built in our garage).