Fun Ways to Ring in the New Year With an Awesome New Year's Eve Party!

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Celebrate the New Year right!

New Year’s Eve, the biggest party event of the year, is approaching quickly! Whether you’re reminiscing about the year gone by or looking ahead to all those resolutions, memorable parties are the best way to celebrate. Everyone loves a glamorous, fun party to watch the ball drop at midnight. The team at ABC Sun Control loves a good party, so we’ve gathered our favorite ways to ring in the new year!

To Theme or Not to Theme

Choosing a theme (or not) is the biggest decision you might make for your party. A theme defines your drinks, entertainment, activities, and more, but you also don’t need a theme to pull entertain your guests. If you do want a theme, popular choices include vintage, exotic locales, a black and white ball, or the year in review, and put your own spin on it.

Set the Atmosphere

Whether or not you go with a theme, creating a cool atmosphere is important. You can stop by your local discount decor store to pick up all sorts of NYE decorative items, but you can also take it up a notch. Think about your walls, windows, and floors, and consider getting eye-catching window and wall film that’s created just for your party with unique graphics. ABC Sun Control’s creative team will design an immersive party environment for your entire space.

Killer food and drinks

From classic cocktails to the most popular drinks of the year, great drinks make a great party. You don’t even need a huge selection—just a few that really capture your party along with high-quality ingredients. Food is important too and a potluck is a great way to get a variety of food for everyone to enjoy.

Party activities

Before the ball drops, keep your guests entertained and talking with fun party activities. Games include matching resolutions to the guests who made them, group games like Cards Against Humanity, truth-or-dare, or scavenger hunts. Ice-breaker games like year-in-review card prompts will keep the laughs rolling until midnight.

Music and entertainment

Finally, there’s no party without some great music and entertainment in the background. Whether you’re playing mixes off of Youtube or bringing in a live band, your guests will love listening to awesome tunes tailored to your party. Playing movies in the background is also a great option. Classic NYE-themed films like When Harry Met Sally…, Trading Places, or Holiday Inn really set the seasonal mood. Throwing a fun party is easy with a little planning and imagination. Contact ABC Sun Control to give your party space a face-lift for the big night so you can focus being a great host.

Seven Noteworthy Benefits of Utilizing Home Window Films

Seven Noteworthy Benefits of Utilizing Home Window FilmsWe recently came across an article published by Proud Green Home that discussed how home window films could make your house more energy efficient. However, in addition to energy efficiency, the article mentioned six additional noteworthy benefits of utilizing home window films. We have summarized them below as thought you might be interested in all of the ways that window film can compliment your next home improvement project.

Benefits of Home Window Films

  • Reduces Glare – Applying tint to your home windows can result in blocking significant amount of the sun’s glare from passing through the glass.
  • Protects Your House Interiors –The sun's UV rays penetrate through windows of your house. With prolonged exposure, your house furnishings, carpet, rugs and upholstery can become faded and damaged. Window tinting offers a great solution for fading issue as it typically blocks 99% of the UV while still allowing you to enjoy your windows.
  • Energy Savings –Window tint can act as a window insulator keeping heat out in the Summer and retaining heat in the Winter. This can help home owners decrease their utility bills by reducing how hard their heating and air conditioning system needs to work to keep the house comfortable.
  • Increased Privacy – Window films can be used strategically throughout your home to offer additional privacy through certain windows without the need for blinds or curtains.
  • Enhanced Safety – Accidents happen and a window can bet broken. When this happens with a typical home window, the glass breaks in a way that can be dangerous. Home window film can keep the broken glass in place and reduce the danger.
  • Added Security – Security home window film exists that can provide the other benefits listed and make uninvited entry into your home more difficult. This makes these types of films a perfect compliment to a home a security system.
  • Affordable Alternative to Window Replacement – At some point nearly any window may need to be replaced, but by using home window films you may be able to significantly extend the useful life of your existing windows while achieving the benefits you desire. Having a professionally installed window film applied is much less costly and far less disruptive to your home than window replacement.

We hope this list helped you understand the variety of ways home window films can help on your next home improvement project. If you would like more information, click HERE contact us by calling 800-488-5099 or emailing us at sales@controlthesun.com.