Whats the best way to address French and sliding glass doors?
A. I suggest panels on either side that close and meet in the middle. Those are a lot easier to use on French doors than on sliding doors. You can also put shades on French doors. When clients have French doors in a room with windows, we put the same shades on the doors that we do in the windows. Sliding doors are tricky. If you can only pull drapes to one side, you’ll have to do something vertical. In that case, you can get shutters on tracks, which are framed to fit onto a window frame and move like a closet door. These shutters are custom, so they will be more expensive, but they are beautiful and easy to maintain because you can just wipe them clean. Another option is to have a pretty drapery that stacks to one side and use a valance on top to conceal the movable track. But I would never advocate vertical blinds. They are cold and very commercial, and they provide no decoration whatsoever.
