Exterior Signs
Awnings
An awning can market your company and give you the advantage of some shape and a look that you can design to be an attention grabber.
What fabrics are best for Awnings?
We prefer to use Sunbrella fabrics for our awning designs. Since Sunbrella fabric is available in over 140 styles and colors, you're sure to find numerous choices that will both complement your buildings exterior and coordinate with your business’ interior.
What We Offer
Storefront Awnings
The classic shopfront awning - shade, shelter and a second branded surface facing the sidewalk.
Entrance Canopies
Larger structures marking a main entrance and giving visitors cover at the door.
Backlit & Illuminated Awnings
Internally lit awnings that become a lightbox after dark, where the ordinance allows it.
Window & Multi-Bay Awnings
Repeating awnings across a run of windows or tenant bays, unified in shape and colour.
Awning Recovers
New fabric on your existing frame, which is normally a fraction of a full replacement.
Graphics & Lettering on Awnings
Applied or heat-transferred lettering and logos, laid out for the angle the awning is actually seen from.
Products & Solutions
The frame and the fabric are two different decisions
An awning is a welded aluminium or steel frame with a fabric skin, and the two age at completely different rates. A properly built frame lasts decades. The fabric is the wear part, taking sun, rain and grime continuously. Buying on the fabric alone is how people end up replacing a whole awning when they only needed a recover.
Why we specify Sunbrella
Sunbrella is solution-dyed rather than surface-dyed, so the colour runs through the fibre instead of sitting on it. That is why it holds colour under UV for years while cheaper printed fabrics fade unevenly and go chalky. With over 140 styles and colours available, the constraint is rarely finding a match to your brand or your building.
Laying out lettering for the viewing angle
An awning is read from below and from the side, not straight on. Lettering placed on the sloped face reads well to someone across the street and disappears to someone directly underneath, which is why the valance - the vertical hanging edge - usually carries the business name. Getting this backwards is the most common awning design mistake.
Recovering versus replacing
If the frame is sound and the geometry still suits the storefront, recovering is the right call. A rebrand, a new tenant or simply faded fabric rarely justifies a new structure. We assess the frame first and quote a recover where one will do.
Permits and the projection over the sidewalk
An awning that projects over a public sidewalk is regulated, and most North Jersey towns control projection distance, clearance height above the pavement and whether lettering counts against your total permitted sign area. We produce the drawings, file the application and handle the inspection as part of the project.
Our Work
Sunbrella fabric
Solution-dyed Sunbrella in over 140 styles and colours, chosen to hold its colour rather than fade to chalk.
Permits handled
We produce the drawings, file with the town and handle the inspection, including projection and clearance over the sidewalk.
Design through installation
One partner from the first sketch to the finished install, rather than a fabricator plus a separate installer.
Service after install
We service what we install - recovers, repairs and graphics changes on the frame you already own.
Our Process
Site survey & measurement
We measure the opening, check the mounting substrate and confirm the clearance the sidewalk requires.
Design & fabric selection
Shape, projection and fabric chosen against the building and your brand, shown on a photograph of your own storefront.
Permit drawings & filing
Drawings produced to the town ordinance and filed on your behalf, then tracked through approval.
Frame fabrication & fabric
Frame welded to the approved dimensions and the fabric cut and sewn to fit it.
Installation
Mounted to the facade with the correct anchors for the substrate, square and at the specified clearance.