Knowledge Base

There’s a range of different options that you can use in front of glass doors. The most popular option for blinds in front of sliding glass are motorised roller blinds You can see from the video that the blinds move up and down automatically activated by remote control. The fabric being used on these blinds is a screen fabric which basically means that during the day, when the blinds are down, they protect the property from the damaging rays of the sun. You can see through the fabric into the garden. People are not able to see in through the blinds from outside during the day. These are easily our most popular solution for bi folding doors.

This video shows a set of shutters in front of a 3 panel lounge window. There are different ways to configure your shutters and the video shows some options.

This video shows how to configure a set of shutters in front of French Doors in a Bloor Home. This installation consists of eight shutter panels that all open and stack to the right. Its possible for them to be designed so that they all stack left or they could be split with four going left and four going right.
The shutters are made up of 63mm louvers and a midrail to match the transoms on the side windows.
The customer opted for an offset tilt wand. Tilt wands can be in the centre on the right or on the left. The shutters can also be made with no visible tilt wands.

This short video gives you an insight into how shutters operate.
You can have different opening configurations and this video shows bifolding shutters in a shallow three sided bay window.

This window bay projects outwards from the house. The customers wanted to add shutters within the bay. This video shows you what we did and how the shutters work.

This installation shows how we have fit shutters to a corner bay with leaded glass windows. You will see how the shutters are designed to match the windows to limit the impact on light entering the room.
These shutters have hidden tilt wands, which means there is no visible rod to move the louvres up and down. All the louvres are connected together by a mechanism thats hidden within the panel frame. When you move one louvre, they all move together. See on the video.

I think one of the primary considerations is the sort of fabric being used in a kitchen. Fluffy heavy textiles will hold cooking smells so we wouldn’t recommend Roman binds or curtains in a kitchen. The most popular and practical solution is a roller blind. Our roller blinds come with cassettes which create a built in valance at the top of the blind. This can carry the same fabric as the main blind or it can be a complementary fabric. A bright colourful roller blind can brighten up a kitchen, patterns, stripes or plains.

There’s a range of different options that you can use in front of glass doors.The most popular option for blinds in front of sliding glass are motorised roller blinds You can see from the video that the blinds move up and down automatically activated by remote control. The fabric being used on these blinds is a screen fabric which basically means that during the day, when the blinds are down, they protect the property from the damaging rays of the sun. You can see through the fabric into the garden. People are not able to see in through the blinds from outside during the day. These are easily our most popular solution for bi folding doors.

This video show double pinch pleat voile curtains, in white, hanging from a motorised curtain track. The voiles provide privacy during the day when they are closed. You you cant see into the bedroom during daylight. In front of the voiles is a pair of blackout wave curtains . Again these are hanging from a motorised track. When these are closed they make the room very dark and ideal for sleeping. We worked with the builder to design the pocket that the blinds are fitted into and an LED strip has been fitted inside the pocket that washes light down the curtains when they are closed. It looks fab.

This tier on tier shaped shutter shows how its possible to control shade and privacy in front of a particularly challenging Tilt n Turn window.

This motorised lantern blind is made from a high quality cellular fabric. The pocket of air within the fabric slows the passage of heat in both directions. So when the blind is closed it slows down the ingress of heat coming in or in the winter it slows down the escape of the heat that’s currently using the lantern as a chimney.

This is a Markilux awning we fitted on the rear of this extension. We had to use spreader brackets to spread the load of the awning down the wall, as it was a single storey building, and there was minimal weight to support the awning above the position where it needed to be fitted.

The brackets were specially formed to step out in front of the barge boards.

The customer chose a Markilux 990 awning in anthracite for this installation.