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Patio door shutters in Toronto

Shutters for sliding glass, French and balcony doors in Toronto: which layout suits which door, and how they compare with vertical blinds.
Condo window wall and balcony door, level 1 (flat) moulding, paint stage 3.

Doors in Toronto's homes

23% of Toronto's homes are detached houses, 12% are semis and row houses, and 65% are apartments or condos. No city we cover in Ontario has a higher share of apartment and condo homes.

In Toronto, July averages a high of 27 °C and January a low of −6.7 °C, about 14 days a year reach 30 °C, 101 nights fall at or below 0 °C, and 823 mm of precipitation falls in a typical year.

In Richmond Hill, 16 km away, 24% of homes are apartments or condos, 41 points fewer than here.

Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population; Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020. Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.

Balcony doors

With 65% of homes in multi-unit buildings, many patio doors here open onto a balcony. Bifold panels fold back in pairs and need little floor space; check what your condo corporation allows to show through the glass.

Shutters in condos

Afternoon sun

14 days a year reach 30 °C. Louvers tilted up block high sun while still letting you see out, which a curtain or vertical blind can't do.

Older door openings

58% of homes are decades old, and older door openings settle. Measure the width at the top, middle and bottom; a mounting frame gives the track a straight line to run on.

How to measure

Patio door options for Toronto
FeatureBypass shutters (ours)Bifold shutters (ours)Vertical blinds
How it opensPanels slide on a trackPanels fold back in pairsVanes stack to one side
Floor space neededNoneA little, for the foldNone
CordsNoneNoneUsually a cord or wand
Built to lastSolid poplarSolid poplarFabric or PVC vanes

Where our shutters fit

Every Shutter Boys shutter is made from solid American poplar to the measurements you take, then shipped to Toronto for you to fit. Choose bypass or bifold as the layout in the designer and it draws the door to your sizes.

The designer shows the price of each window as you add it, in Canadian dollars.

Talk to your rep in Toronto

Call the Shutter Boys GTA line, or book a free design consultation by video or phone: we go through your windows, the style and colour, and how to measure them.

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Price your windows

Choose Canada in the designer, enter millimetres or inches, and we reply with your quote in Canadian dollars.

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