It seems most homes* have one “hot room”, that by accident of design (contradictory, I know), keep higher temperatures and are more difficult to cool than other areas of the building.

Our current hot room faces West, and seems to be at the end of the of the duct-work of our apartment’s air conditioning; a great combination for combating the blistery-cold summers of Las Vegas.

So we’re blocking out the sun in the hopes that it’ll make the some of the heat go away, which in turn should lower our a/c bill.

* Drawing only, of course, on my experience of places in Las Vegas that I have lived.

Quite plain, yes?

Pencil, stud finder & level not pictured. Toy trains just for fun.

Brass leaf-ended curtain rod.

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