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A french door is a door usually one of a pair with glass panes that extend for most of its length.
Sliding glass doors give you easy access to fresh air and sunshine but they can also let a little too much of those golden rays shine inside.
Hang curtains at least 4 to 6 inches above the top of the windows.
Measure your sliding doors.
But since they re pretty much just big windows they don t offer much privacy so hanging curtains is one of the options to deal with the problem.
Purchase door curtain panels that equal one and one half times the window width so you can gather the material when you hang it.
The first step involves getting to know the dimensions of sliding door.
If you are hanging the french door curtains above the doors measure the width of the french doors plus 2 inches on both sides for a total of 4 inches.
Take a pencil and mark a spot at about four inches above the door frame.
It s like the housing and curtain industries had lunch got drunk and one of them said we ll make the standard height of newly installed windows around 6 or 7 high so you just go ahead and only manufacture curtains around 84 high and they ll all buy it and we ll all become millionaires.
Bamboo shaddes will also add a texture.
Assuming you re outfitting a living room or bedroom with average ceiling height 8 feet high an interior designer s rule of.
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Measure the height and width of the french door windows.
The dimensions of my standard height french door with sidelights on which all my measurements and instructions are based are listed below.
If hanging the curtains to cover the panes of the doors measure the width of the pane of the glass and add 1 inch to each side for a total of 2 inches.
You will need a curtain a few sizes bigger than the windows on the top as well on the sides.
The long curtains can cover the entire wall not.
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Hanging curtain rods high above the window frame adds height to the wall and works best with long panels or drapes.
How to hang curtains over sliding glass doors.
You may need to modify these instructions to fit your french door windows if the windows on your doors are wider than.
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