Perfect Blinds for Bifold Doors
Bifold doors are by far becoming one of the most popular door choices for homeowners across the UK, affording you unrivalled sightlines, natural light, and energy efficiency. While people love the natural light, bifold doors offer sometimes you want to completely close-up your home to give it that added cosy feel in the winter months. Bifold door blinds are perfect for this, giving you controllable blinds that can cover every window of your new bifold doors. This article will discuss the benefits of bifold door blinds and which choice you should be looking at.
Some Bifold Door Blind Retailers That We Recommend
Waterloo Blinds – Local Blinds Manufacturer
Waterloo blinds located in Waterloo, Liverpool are a local blind manufacturer who can bespoke make blinds of any shape and size for you. You can drop into their showroom at any time to feel the fabrics and get a free quote for your new bifold blinds.
Blinds 2 Go – Online Retailers
Blinds 2 Go create custom bifold blinds in a variety of styles perfect for any bifold doors. You can browse their site and see the variety of colours and textures they offer. Many of their products are available with next day delivery.
Dotcom Blinds – Online Retailer
Dotcom Blinds also have a huge range of bifold door blinds available to you. You can order blinds from their website and request free samples to feel your blinds before making your decision. Currently they are offering £30 off certain products.
The Benefits of Using Blinds for Your Bifold Doors
While curtains are still the go to window covering for many homeowners, blinds are becoming more popular as they are cheaper, easier to maintain and offer you much more control over how much light you let into a room.
Blinds are easily controllable
A new set of blinds for your bifold doors will afford you maximum control over the amount of light you allow into your home. You can adjust the closing position of your blinds to have them fully up or ¼ or halfway down to allow some light into your home without having to have the full glare of the sun beaming into your room.
Blinds are lightweight
Blinds are incredibly lightweight making them easy to close and manage. Larger curtains will require thick heavy individual fabrics to offer the same result as blinds will achieve while using much less material.
Blinds Require less maintenance
Bifold blinds are also much easier to maintain than traditional curtains. While many large curtains are a pain to pull down wash and dry many blind types are wipeable and can be cleaned in their position saving you a lot less time on your window covering maintenance.
Cheaper
Many bifold blinds will be significantly cheaper than curtains as your bifold doors surface area is larger you are going to need a lot of fabric to cover the surface area which will cost significantly more than blinds would cost you.
Integrate technology
Blinds can also integrate technology into their function making them much more user friendly. You can get blinds that can be remotely controlled for closing and opening. In addition to control, you can also add lighting to your blinds to give extra ambience when closed.
Uses less space
Blinds are fitted to your windows and will require significantly less space than larger curtains will require with an external rail.
What Types of Blinds for Bifold Doors are Available?
You will be spoilt form choice when is comes to blind coverings for your bifold doors with a wide variety of fabrics and styles to choose from. Roller blinds, venetian blinds, roman blinds, and pleated blinds are all great choices for bifold doors each offering you full control over light flow within your home.
When it comes to blind materials you will have a few options while some are easier to maintain than others, they are all cost effective.
- Wool & Cotton
- Linen
- Plastic
- Wooden Blinds
Each of these materials are perfect for bifold door blinds while plastic and wood will be much easier to maintain than their fabric counterparts.
In Conclusion
Overall, we believe bifold door blinds are a much better choice than conventional curtains. Blinds in our opinion look much better and offer you more control over natural light. Blinds for bifold doors are also cheaper than larger fabric curtains meaning you can change your bifold door blinds more frequently than you could curtains. At Mersey Bifolds we believe that bifold door blinds are the option you should choose for your bifold door covering.