Video Highlights
0:01 – Introduction
0:21 – Common Front Door, Side windows
0:46 – Common Roller Blind Problems
1:32 – Slim line Venetians, poor quality
1:51 – Stunning, affordable Plantation Shutters
2:25 – View of the outside of the door
3:14 – Our stunning end result, with Plantation Shutters
Transcription
0:01 – Introduction
Hi I’m Jason from the brand Blockout Blinds and today I’m going to be giving some tips on what you can put on those long, skinny windows beside your front door.
0:21 – Common Front Door Side Windows
So these days it’s quite common to have your front door and to have a window to the left and a window to the right maybe about a two hundred or two hundred fifty millimetre wide. And these can be a bit tricky. A lot of people decide to put in roller blinds, or slim line venetians. But they’re gonna have problems as well, so let’s have a look at this first photo here now.
0:46 – Common Roller Blinds problems
You can see we have a roller blind in the recess of the window to the left of the door.
Now it doesn’t look very good, generally the glass on the windows at the side of the door doesn’t have any quad between the glass and the frame so as a roller blind that always have a fifteen mil-gap. You can see straight out.
Another problem with roller blinds being when they’re really long and really skinny, they don’t have any stability so they waiver around. And as you can see on this one it’s sort of hanging a little bit to the left. And what that also causes is when you roll it up they never roll up straight; you actually have to use your hand to guide the bottom of the blind as you’re rolling it up.
This is an inherent thing that happens with roller blinds, as they get skinny and long.
1:32 – Slim line Venetians, poor quality.
Slim line venetians: I don’t have a photo but we all know they’re aluminium venetians, they end up flapping around and people bump them and they get broken. So what a lot of people don’t realize is one of the perfect blinds or options to put on your side windows are Plantation Shutters!
1:51 – Stunning, affordable Plantation Shutters
So lets have a look at this first example here: you can see its on an older home, but what we’ve done here is put plantation shutters on the door and also on the little side glass panels as well.
And they look absolutely fantastic! And what’s good about that? Well one: is they open and shut easy, two, you just turn them and they’re sealed all the way around so you don’t get light coming through and through. And three, they’re fixed so they don’t wobble and move around like roller blinds and venetians do. So they work absolutely perfectly.
2:25 – View of the outside of the door
But what about the outside: let’s have a look here’s a view from the outside and they look a treat! Now of course another thing with side windows on your doors is that generally you wanted to have some privacy so with the shutters you can have the blinds tilted on a certain angle so you can see out but you cant see in! It works perfect!
Now plantation shutters they can be a little bit more pricey because they are a very complicated product, they’re solid timber. But the thing is the majority of the price is worked out on a per square-meter base. So the side panels for your doors they don’t have much area so it doesn’t work out anywhere near as expensive as you might think.
So you can get this exclusive look, looks fantastic, it has that wow factor on the side of your doors that everybody that comes up to your house just goes “wow, look at that!”
3:14 – Our Stunning End Result, with Plantation Shutters
So let’s have a look at another example; this is another door where it doesn’t actually have glass on the door so there’s no need to put shutters on the door but we’ve put shutters on the side panels again.
So I’m sure you’ll all agree that the plantation shutters look absolutely fantastic on those and on the side panels. And most people don’t think they’ll put them in there. But me personally, I will put them there nearly every single time.
So I hope you found this little tip useful, and until next time.
