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Vertical blinds are made to measure for the wide patio doors and balcony windows common in Kidbrooke Village's new residential blocks, where a horizontal-slat blind isn't the right shape for the opening.
Vertical blinds are made for the patio doors and wide balcony screens in Kidbrooke Village, where a roller barrel would have to be very large and a Venetian is the wrong proportion. Louvres draw clear to one side so the door opens fully onto a terrace facing Cator Park.
Rotation gives glare control while the view stays. That suits apartments that want daylight across a living room without a fully bare pane onto a shared courtyard in the evening.
Louvres are weighted and linked so they do not twist on a wide span. A fabric that wipes clean is used where the door is a main route to the balcony, and the track is sized so the stack sits on the side that does not block the handle.
Townhouse sliding doors get the same logic on a domestic scale. We measure the track position against the head of the frame and any pelmet the developer has already fitted.
The louvre stack is kept off the handle side so the door onto the terrace still opens fully once the blind is drawn clear.
Slats that draw fully to one side keep a balcony door completely clear when the blind isn't needed, which matters for apartments that open directly onto a terrace overlooking Cator Park.
180-degree slat rotation gives residents precise control over glare without losing daylight altogether, which suits a shared building with different needs on different floors.
The same wide-window logic applies to the sliding patio doors found in some of Kidbrooke's larger townhouses, where vertical blinds handle the width more cleanly than a single roller.
Vertical blinds for these balcony doors start with the track length and the side the louvres should stack. A door that opens to the left cannot have the stack on the left, or the first trip onto the terrace pulls a louvre out of its hook.
Louvre width is chosen against the opening. Wider louvres look calmer on a full-width living-room screen; narrower louvres suit a shorter kitchen door onto a Juliet balcony. Both are made to the drop we measure, including floors that are not perfectly level.
Closed louvres give evening privacy on courtyard and park-facing glass without the room feeling shuttered in the daytime, because the same louvres can be rotated rather than only drawn. That daily adjustment is why the mechanism has to run freely after fitting, not just on the day.
Fabric is specified for a door that people brush past: a stable cloth, a proper weight in the hem, and a link chain that will not tangle the first time a child walks through. Moisture-tolerant fabric is used if the door is beside a kitchen.
The track is fixed into a sound ground. On a new-build lintel we check what we are screwing into, rather than assuming a timber packer is where the drawing showed it. A weak fixing is the usual reason a wide track droops in the centre.
One visit covers the balcony doors and any matching side lights. If a side pane is better as a roller or a Venetian, we split the specification instead of running vertical louvres across an opening they were not meant for.
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Vertical blinds are made to measure for the wide patio doors and balcony windows common in Kidbrooke Village’s new residential blocks, where a horizontal-slat blind isn’t the right shape for the opening and would need several separate pieces.
Yes — slats that draw fully to one side keep the balcony door completely clear when open, which matters for apartments that lead directly onto a terrace overlooking Cator Park and are used daily in warmer months.
180-degree rotation gives residents precise control over glare without losing daylight altogether, which suits a shared building with different needs on different floors, especially where balconies face slightly different directions.
Every blind is measured on site against the actual window or door opening, with fabric and colour agreed before fitting, and installed by our own team, backed by our quality fitting guarantee that covers the track mechanism as well as the slats.
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Many of Kidbrooke Village's newer apartments were designed with a balcony or terrace in mind, which means wide sliding or bi-fold doors rather than a standard vertical window — exactly the shape vertical blinds handle best.
Fitted properly, they let residents enjoy the outlook over Cator Park during the day and draw fully clear when the door needs to open, without the bunched-up look of an ill-fitting roller blind.
Demand is genuinely mixed rather than seasonal: new residents move into these balcony apartments throughout the year, which keeps our local fitting schedule busy on a rolling basis.
Because so much of Kidbrooke Village is newly built, our team is used to working around developer snagging lists and building-management sign-off.
With Kelly's Blinds, Kidbrooke Village residents get a made-to-measure vertical blinds fitting service built for the development's wide balcony doors and patio openings.
Balcony apartments overlooking Cator Park are the core of this work, with townhouse patio doors as the other regular opening. Both need the stack clear of the door and the louvres long enough to meet a floor that may fall slightly toward the threshold.
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