DECORATIVE GLASS OPTIONS
22”X64” Prairie Grills 
22”X64” Mini Blinds
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Prairie Grills
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The Perimeter grille will adorn your window without blocking your view. This delicate grille fits well within the Natural style.
Mini Blinds
The integrated aluminum mini-blinds are a time tested classic. Discretion is an easy to operate and highly durable product. It is a great way to let light in during the day while ensuring absolute privacy at any moment. Our mini-blinds are now available in two colours in order to suit any decor.
Standart Grills
Clear
Colonial grills are great for making narrow and tall doors look a little wider, or for creating a panel look.
Clear Glass
Clear
Lets a lot of light into the room and allows you to visually enlarge the space
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Garden Doors and French Doors Explained
A garden door is a hinged double door onto a patio, deck or balcony: what most people picture when they say “French doors”. Unlike a slider, both panels swing, so you get the full width of the opening as a clear passage. Norden Seal builds garden door systems in steel and fiberglass for durability and thermal performance, with decorative glass, grille patterns, integrated mini-blinds and vented sidelites available across the range.
Garden door or sliding patio door? Choose a garden door when you want the full opening clear, for moving furniture, carrying trays out to a deck, or simply the look of a double door standing open on a summer evening. Choose a sliding patio door when the deck or the room is tight and there is nowhere for a swinging panel to go. The swing clearance is the whole decision: a garden door needs roughly the panel width in free space on whichever side it opens. Measure that before you fall in love with the look.
Glass does most of the design work. Garden doors carry more glass than any other hinged door in the house, and the full Norden Seal glass collection is available. Prairie, Colonial and Georgian grills are applied between the panes so the glass cleans as one surface, with Colonial grills making a narrow, tall door read wider and Prairie grills concentrating the pattern at the corners. Integrated aluminium mini-blinds are a time-tested classic, sealed inside the glass unit for light during the day and absolute privacy when closed. Clear glass gives maximum daylight where the door faces a private yard, and semi-private or privacy textures are the answer where the door is overlooked.
A vented sidelite is worth knowing about. It is a narrow fixed panel beside the door containing an openable section, so you can air the room without opening the door itself. That is genuinely useful on a back door in shoulder season, and on any entrance where an open door is a security or pet concern. Available panel widths include 12, 14, 17, 18, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 40 and 42 inches, so a sidelite can be sized to the opening you have rather than the opening the catalogue assumed.
Hinges and locking deserve attention here more than anywhere else. Garden doors carry more weight per panel than a standard entry door and open more often in summer, which puts real demand on the hinges, so Norden Seal offers a range of hinge and multi-point lock options across the collection. Multi-point locking is worth specifying, because a double door has an inherently weaker centre than a single slab and multi-point locking is what compensates for it.
Steel or fiberglass? Both are built to the same system. Steel gives you the highest impact resistance and the lower entry price, while fiberglass resists denting and warping and takes a stained woodgrain finish. On a garden door specifically, fiberglass is worth the premium if the doors face south or west and take real sun and weather, because a garden door’s large glazed area and frequent use expose any dimensional movement quickly.
Garden Door Questions
In Canadian practice the terms describe the same thing: a hinged double door leading onto a patio, deck or garden. “Garden door” is the manufacturer’s term used across the Prairie market, and “French door” is the more common consumer term, historically describing a door glazed over most of its area. Norden Seal garden doors are French-style hinged patio doors.
They can be as secure as any entry door, but they need the right hardware. A double door’s weak point is the meeting stile in the centre, so specify a multi-point locking system that engages top and bottom as well as at the centre, and make sure the inactive panel has flush bolts into both the head and the sill. With that specification a garden door is not meaningfully easier to force than a single door.
Not inherently. A hinged door compresses its weatherstripping when latched, which is a fundamentally good seal, and arguably better than a slider’s brush seals. Air leakage on garden doors almost always traces to a door hung out of square or a sill that has settled, both of which are installation and site issues rather than product ones.
Roughly the width of one panel, on whichever side the doors swing. For a typical 5 ft garden door with two 30-inch panels swinging inward, that is about 30 inches of clear floor on each side. If the room cannot give that up, an outswing configuration or a sliding patio door is the practical answer.
Yes, and you can make it a vented sidelite that opens for ventilation. Available panel widths run from 12 inches to 42 inches, so a sidelite can usually be fitted to an existing opening without structural work, though widening the opening does require it. Your estimator will confirm against your rough opening.
