Blackout Cellular Shades – Top Down Bottom Up With Outside Mount

If you have a sliding patio door with a view into a busy street, here is what you can do to maintain your privacy, block light, and keep the view – all in one.

In the idea below, you’ll see an actual example of choices a customer made to accomplish the three features stated above:

• Maintain privacy
   
• Block light in a bedroom
   
• Keep and vary the view during daytime 

 

Blackout Honeycomb Shades – An Outside Mount – Sliding Door

 A typical sliding patio door faces a busy street. There are two blackout cellular shades (side-by-side) across the width of the sliding door. The shallow door depth prevents the honeycomb shades from being mounted inside of it.

Therefore, both blackout cellular shades hang on the outside of the window frame in metal brackets.

An Outside Mount Cellular Shades Detail

Spacer Blocks And Holding Brackets Blackout Cellular Shades

In the two pictures, you see the shades installed as an outside mount. To compensate for the extra thickness of the wooden window casing, each metal bracket sits on a clear plastic spacer.

Since the cellular shades are more than 45 inches wide, THREE brackets support each of them.

The spacers make the brackets sit flush with the window casing. Once the shades lock into the brackets with spacers, any major rubbing of the moving rails against the wood casing is eliminated.

These (honeycomb) cellular shades now serve day and night in an enjoyable, yet triple-practical way.