Privacy for Beveled Glass Front Door?

[alexsungar]

One another option is that you can use pleated curtains as they are available various transparency options,if possible leave that door as it is.

[NOLA2SGF]

Originally Posted by NOLA2SGF

I made some decisions and so I thought I should update this thread for those who are curious.

Good idea, and this is going to be my first approach to the problem. I ordered a cheap room panel divider/screen from Amazon, using rewards points so that it didn't cost me anything. My plan is to try to figure out some configuration of screen and furniture that will allow me to answer the door quickly and easily despite the screen without bumping into furniture on the way. Like some of you mentioned, I really don't want to cover up that door! It is so pretty.

I am hoping to make the screening of that door a higher priority than furniture placement. Once I actually have the screen in hand, maybe I can figure out a way to still have room for the screen.

If that doesn't work, I plan to look into either curtains or blinds for the door, which would be my second choice. Thanks again for all your great answers and decorating expertise. This thread really helped me to shed my "analysis paralysis" and start wading through possible solutions.

This worked out really well! I like the cheap screen I got from Amazon. Once I had it I was able to push the furniture a little bit this way, and a little bit that way, in the rather small entry/dining room until there was enough room for the screen to be placed about 6'-7' from the door. Surprisingly, there is even enough room to get around it easily without bumping into anything. The addition of the screen blocked most of the view from the outside, and closing the door leading into the kitchen blocked the rest.

Thanks for all the ideas. This thread is a treasure of creative, wonderful ideas and hopefully will help others in the future who read it, too.

[imagardener]

Just saw this thread. I have clear glass double front doors (patio type) installed by previous owners. When we bought this home the first thing we did was call local police dept and ask if this was a safety issue (break-ins). They sent someone who looked at all our doors and windows and made suggestions about the sliding glass doors but said the glass front doors were not a problem as we were in a low-crime (non-HOA) neighborhood.

But it bothered us that anyone coming to the front door could see us in the living room, day or night, and we'd be forced to answer the door even if we didn't want to. We have some energetic Jehovah's Witnesses as well as salespeople we wanted to avoid. I bought magnetic curtain rods and a pair of white cotton (not sheer) curtains. Problem solved. I decided against frosting because people could still see shapes moving inside.

Now I can watch TV day or night in the living room and not worry about being seen.

In the years since I've noticed several other homes, one on our street and others in gated communities also have a glass front door. Not something I'd ever choose to install but it's being done.