Use a curtain rod that is long enough to extend beyond your sliding door.
How to cover a sliding glass door with curtains.
You can hang the panels either on inside your home or on the exterior of your home for added protection of your sliding glass door from strong weather.
Now that you know the length and the width you ll be able to choose the proper curtain rod and curtains.
If you have sliding glass doors for your kitchen you can try combining your window blinds with the curtains.
Curtains help you to create privacy and also work as an extra insulating layer.
Drapes can make any living space beautiful.
With the drapery window treatments you can design the best look for your home.
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Not all sliding glass doors are huge but even the smaller ones need curtains if you value your privacy.
If i only had to make two panels to cover one door i would have had this posted sooner but i had 4 doors to cover and i lost my production line mojo back in june.
The panels can be made of window screen plexiglass metal fabric stone wood or most any other material.
Since the width of most two panel sliding doors is 72 inches choose a curtain rod that gives about 4 inches of room on each end past the door frame to bunch up the curtains when they re drawn on either side.
When i started researching ready made white drapes for sliding glass doors all i could find was ugly custom made ones that costs over 1000 per door.
The long curtains can cover the entire wall not just the sliding glass doors.
Areas such as the kitchen don t need those heavy curtains like bedrooms do.
This way curtains are out of the way and don t impede traffic.
You can make your own custom bypass panels to cover your sliding glass patio door.
Measure the length of the window and door combined then buy curtains.
Curtains are one of the simplest and most cost effective ways to cover sliding glass doors with windows above or beside them.
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