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Window treatments for French doors

alipetecampbell

8 years ago

Why is it that Australia lags behind? Our French doors are aluminium and no one seems to want to attach a timber Venetian or any other treatment to the door itself. In the U.S and UK you can buy venetians made for French doors , why don't we? You can also buy Magnetic ones that fit!
If anyone knows a suitable solution, we would be v. grateful.

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Tribbletrouble44152k7 Trek
8 years ago
You can buy doors here with the blind between two glass panes.
bigreader
8 years ago
Can you have one shipped from the UK?
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Rene
8 years ago
I feel your pain, alipetecampbell! I was asking the same question last year when facing this dilemma. There seems to be a lot of options available overseas but not in Australia.

In the end I went with Lite-rise (meaning you had to manually raise/lower the blind!) Luxaflex Duette Shades with the smaller 10mm honeycomb cells. The problem with the french doors is that there is not a big enough lip where the glass is set into the aluminum frame. So the blind has to be mounted onto the frame rather than within the frame. While it is not an issue when the door is open, you have to be careful not to push the door too far back against the wall, otherwise the protruding head rail will hit the wall on the inner end.

I like the translucent duette shades I went with & they do the job but they are not the perfect window treatment I was looking for. New products are coming onto the market all the time so I hope you are able to source something that really appeals to you.
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Zone Interiors
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
Hey alipetecampbell have you considered a DIY option, like our Venetian and roller blinds? You can pick them up from Bunnings or Mitre10.

Adding some blinds to French doors definitely improves things, we agree.

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