With so much focus on window blinds and shades, sometimes the importance of covering your doors gets pushed aside. Blinds for patio doors and sliding glass doors are just as important as window shades. The best sliding door blinds or shades offer additional insulation, sun control, and privacy. But that doesn’t mean you have to settle for the first door blinds you find. Covering your doors with shades will give you all those benefits in addition to adding more style and modernity to your home.
Because you do have so many options for door blinds, here’s a truncated list to get you started. Can it get any easier than this?
Vertical Blinds for Doors
Vertical door blinds are the most common coverings for doors, but don’t think of them as ordinary. Long past are the days when you only had one choice: stark white. SelectBlinds now offers a variety of colors, customized options, panel sizes, and textures. Choose between embossed faux wood, textured blinds, fabric, and verticals on a panel track. Make a statement by finding your own style of blinds for patio doors.
When ordering vertical window coverings, you can choose which side the wand or cord are on. Or, you can choose to go entirely cordless, increasing safety for both your children and your pets. For a modern look, pick uniquely textured blinds for doors or even the woven paneled blinds. However, if you want a more traditional look, opt for smooth vertical-blinds, which still come in a variety of colors.
French Door Blinds
When it comes to horizontal blinds for doors, you can achieve a traditional, yet stylish look to your space. If you have French doors, you don’t want to cover up their beauty and elegance with the wrong window covering. But if you want privacy, sun control, and insulation, you’ll need to find a stylish solution. Thankfully, verticals aren’t your only option anymore. SelectBlinds.com offers French door options that look great and still let you use the door the way it was intended, without obstructing the door handles or the door frame.
Cellular Door Shades
Because of the design of cellular-shades, they can easily fit behind door handles, or they can simply cover the whole door, depending on your preference. For sliding glass doors, it’s recommended to order two blinds on one headrail. This will allow you to raise one side and keep the other lowered, depending on your specific needs.
There are many benefits to using cellular door shades. For starters, they are insulated, so they help lower energy costs. You can also choose blackout and light filtering options. Light filtering allows the natural light to come through, but it prevents the summer heat and the harmful UV rays from coming in. Because those UV rays are blocked, your furniture won’t fade as quickly. For a restful night’s sleep, choose cellular blackout door shades. They will keep the room temperature comfortable and let you sleep soundly in complete darkness. Or use them to block out the majority of the light, no matter what time you fall asleep.
If you want a softer look for your doors rather than straight lines, Roman door shades are a great way to achieve that. With four fold options, including flat, European, classic, and hobbled, you can pick one that matches your style perfectly, all while keeping your décor fresh and modern.
These shades give the feel of drapery, but provide you with the ease of using traditional door coverings. You get style and functionality, all in one product. Many door shades come with top down/bottom up option and cordless options. Roman-shades are the most versatile window and door coverings out there. They come in a wide range of colors, patterns, and fabrics, allowing you to customize and personalize beyond simple door measurements.
Roll up Shades for Doors
Roll-up shades for sliding glass doors come in many colors and designs. They’re easy to install and even easier to use. If you have children, go cordless. Not only will it keep your children safe, but it will give your patio doors or sliding glass doors streamlined, clean lines.
Keep your doors a classic style by choosing a traditional roller door shade design. Or you can add a little flair by choosing a striking, contemporary pattern and use the shade as a visual point of interest. No matter which style you choose, you’ll have a clean look that translates through your entire house.
One of the great things about all these options for patio door blinds is that you can choose the same blinds or shades for your windows. This creates a unified statement and increase the continuity of your home, pulling the rooms together chicly and effortlessly.
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Usually you can jsut replace the lock and handle. Before you do this, make sure that the connection on the frame is in the good position, sometimes that gets a little loose and slides, which can cause the latch on the door itself to fail to hook in and/or unhook. No point in replacing hardware when it isn't the problem. Either way, it is a relatively easy job, even for an amateur like me (and apparentyl you too).
When my children were young, they were little escape artists. They actually snuck outside at 3 & 4 to play barefoot in the snow; I found out the next morning -footprint evidence. This excursion was before home alarm systems were standard. I found sliding door screw clips at the hardware store. If you cannot find the clips it would be simple to drill a small hole in the upper track of the sliding glass door and slip a small nail in the track.