Storefront Window Film in Nashville

Window Film for Retail on Broadway, 12 South and Five Points

Nashville's retail streets are as varied as its neighborhoods. Lower Broadway and Second Avenue have historic brick buildings with tall storefronts packed with boot shops, bars and souvenir stores. 12 South has boutiques and cafes in low buildings facing a busy sidewalk. Five Points and Gallatin Avenue in East Nashville mix restaurants, record shops and small offices. Germantown adds restaurants on the ground floor of new mixed-use buildings.

On all of these streets, the storefront faces one direction all day. A shop on the west side of the street takes the morning; one on the east side takes the afternoon, which is the hotter half of a Nashville summer day. Film is chosen with that in mind.

Storefront Film for Suburban Shopping Centers Around Nashville

Outside the core, retail sits in shopping centers and strip malls along roads like Nolensville Pike, Gallatin Pike and Charlotte Pike, and in larger centers like Cool Springs in Franklin, Providence Marketplace in Mount Juliet and The Avenue in Murfreesboro. Storefronts there often face a parking lot that heats up and reflects sun at the glass.

Tenants in these centers usually need landlord approval for anything on the glass, and many centers have rules about how storefronts look. Light, low-reflective films are the easiest to approve because they do not change the look of the center from the parking lot.

Protecting Merchandise and Customers With Storefront Film

Sun fades merchandise fast. Clothing, books, boots, packaging and anything with dye loses color in a display window, sometimes in weeks. Clear UV film removes nearly all ultraviolet, the biggest single cause of fading, while leaving the display looking exactly the same from the sidewalk.

Inside, light solar film keeps the sales floor and checkout area more comfortable and cuts glare on point-of-sale screens. Restaurants use it to keep window tables comfortable through dinner service on summer evenings, when the sun is still high and hot well past seven o'clock.

• Display windows that bleach stock
• Sales floors that run hot at 4 p.m.
• Glare control for registers and screens
• Comfort film for restaurant window seating

Storefront Window Film in Downtown Franklin and Historic Main Streets

Downtown Franklin's Main Street, the square in Murfreesboro and the historic blocks of Gallatin have storefronts in nineteenth-century brick buildings with tall display windows and transoms above. Those windows were designed to pull daylight deep into narrow shops before electric light, and they still do, along with a lot of summer heat.

Historic storefronts are often in a local historic district with design guidelines. Clear and pale films that leave the old glass reading as old glass are the usual fit. We provide product data for any review, and we steer away from anything mirrored or heavily tinted that would stand out on a preserved facade. Owners who rent from a landlord in these districts should loop the landlord in early, since the building owner is the one who answers to the review board.

Security, Graffiti and Graphics Film for Nashville Storefronts

Storefront glass is also the easiest way into a closed shop. A heavy security film holds a cracked pane together, so a thief needs many swings instead of one, and the shop is not left open to the street overnight. Anti-graffiti film protects glass from keyed scratches and paint, a common problem on busy downtown and East Nashville streets.

For branding, cut vinyl and printed films carry logos, hours and seasonal graphics. Frosted bands give privacy to back offices and restrooms that face the street. Everything comes off cleanly when the store changes its look or the lease ends.