Blind Options for Bifold Doors: What Types Are There?
Bi-fold doors have the unique feature to really bring the outside indoors, with their wall-to-wall design and their flexibility. However, the need for shade arises to protect the space from glare and heat. Blinds for bi-fold doors help to achieve this but do you find yourself asking, which are the best blind options for bifold doors?
We offer an extensive range of blinds for bifold doors, such as Duette®, Pleated, Roller and Pinoleum blinds. They are all purposely designed for our customers’ needs and preferences. Keep reading to discover our recommendations for bifold door blinds!
Totally Flexible Blind Options for Bifold Doors
Below you can see this wonderfully flexible solution using our Duette® system, allowing you to operate the blinds according to your needs. For example, if extending the blinds from the bottom, this provides privacy, shade and protection from glare. Alternatively, if extending blinds from the top, this offers shade and protection from glare. Overall, this option offers a perfectly flexible solution. Even better, these blinds are available in a number of fabrics and colour options and can be colour matched to your door frames using our in-house RAL powder coating facility.
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Duette® Blinds for Bifold Doors
Duette® blinds for bi-fold doors have proven to be the perfect way to add shading to a room. Their sleek and modern design allows for a neat fit into the frame of each door. They also contribute to making the space more comfortable, as their Duette® fabric dramatically increases the privacy in a room. Moreover, our Duette® blinds fit effortlessly into the recess of each panel of bi-fold doors, without affecting their operation. This allows for fully-folded doors even after we have fitted the blinds.
The main advantage of the Duette® blinds is their capacity to control the temperature of a space. These pleated blinds offer an additional degree of insulation, thanks to their innovative cellular honeycomb pattern. The Duette® blinds act like a thermal barrier between the room and the glazing, making them the ultimate energy saver!
The Duette® fabric also allows for Tru Fit blinds, a range of drill-free blinds. They are attached via two rails, which stick to the sides of the beading of the window with an adhesive. This offers total control over the shading, enabling the blinds to operate both from the bottom up and from the top down.
pure™ Pleated Blinds
Our pure™ Pleated Blinds are a superb pick for bifold doors, thanks to the small profile of their rail. We often install pure™ blinds into the recess of each door by fitting them onto the frame. Therefore, we can mount pure™ blinds onto doors that open internally since they don’t restrict the doors’ operation. Nevertheless, our pure™ Pleated Blinds will retract away neater than any standard blind system, thanks to their progressive design. Our pure™ Pleated and Duette® blinds can also be adapted to fit other more unusual shaped windows such as gable, triangle and angled.
Roller Blinds for Bifold Doors
Roller blinds contribute to create a chic style, while offering high performance shading for bifold doors. They are available with solar reflective fabric and an optional cassette to conceal the rollers. We fit roller blinds for bifold doors above the doors and cover the area with just one blind. This, in turn, offers the flexibility of keeping the doors open while the blinds extend to prevent light entering the room.
A common option for shading bi-fold doors is using two different blinds at the same time. The most popular combo is Duette® blinds in each panel of the door, and one large roller blind covering all the doors. This is a very flexible shading option and one of the best ways to insulate a set of bifold doors.
pure™ Pinoleum Blinds
Pinoleum Blinds are a type of Roman Blind so they can prove rather difficult to recess-fit into a set of bifold doors. The size of the fabric stack when the blinds are retracted would not allow the doors to properly close. However, we can fit our pure™ Pinoleum Blinds above the doors, so they hang just in front of externally folding doors. This allows the blinds to be lowered even with the doors open, shading the room while maintaining a lovely airflow.
Other Blind Options for Bifold Doors
We can use other types of blinds, such as vertical, or Venetian when shading bifold doors.
Vertical blinds are a great way to cover wide areas of glass with a stylish design feature. Our child-safe vertical bifold door blinds ensure the safety of any child. Their design with no looped cords also creates a distinctively modern style that sets any space apart. Our bespoke vertical blinds come in a stunning choice of colours and textures that simply exude style, allowing for originality when coordinated with the décor.
Venetian blinds offer excellent window shade and privacy to your room. Our range of venetian blinds includes real wood, as well as aluminium bespoke blinds. Venetian blinds for bifold doors can be tilted while open to control glare and allow for the garden view to be visible.
Motorised Blinds
Our blinds are available as motorised bifold door blinds, offering not only the comfort of the shade, but also the ingenuity of modernisation. When we fit the motorised bi-fold door blinds, our customers can easily control them, with just the touch of a button. We have several motorisation options available, including mains operated, battery operated and solar powered.
