You know, My STBX GC husband said the most expensive words in the world are "while you're at it." I have a different kind of domino effect. My DH left me with shoddy work, frightening electrical issues, a badly installed roof (newest estimate yesterday to repair the front, $900.) you name it. When I have the $$, I have someone over to put up and finish drywall. Unfortunately and fortunately, he's an all around kind of guy. Unfortunately, every time he moves into a new room, or I ask him a question, it turns out something needs to be redone. Most recently, a window reinstalled. Other than the continual $$, the problem for me is that usually I've questioned it from the beginning, or he shows me something where I can see what he's talking about. I face the porch rebuild, my roof has to be reroofed and the valleys done properly (2 years ago I had to have the 1st 3 courses of shingles taken up and drip edge installed), I've got plumbing issues, and it never stops. So unfortunately, I'm redoing much that could have been done once, done right. OTOH, I'm getting things exactly the way I wanted them from the start. And safely. But it's truly a domino effect.

I have verticals and they are extremely practical. The only downside is when closed, they present usually a bland wall of color. What I love about them is when they are open they take up so little wall space. Mine are mostly open when I am awake and closed during the night when I can't see them anyway. What makes them most dated I think is the mounting hardware--the track and what covers it. Lots of ways to update that. Verticals are so easy to deal with and update with new blinds if some get damaged or you want a new color. That said, I'm thinking about covering my dining room sliders with roll up bamboo blinds. They also get out of the way easily, they roll UP instead of next to the doors so take up space in a different location. The only reason I'm ditching my verticals in the dining room is we eat in there in the winter and entertain and at night we like the slider windows covered over. The windows are a big black hole on one whole wall otherwise. With the verticals closed they are a big wall of blah blue which is the color of my current blinds. So am looking for something that looks nice when closed. Really updated patterns for verticals nowdays are hard to come by. I looked. My dining room is small so the sliders take up almost one whole side of the room.

I wish I could say the problem was resolved. My glass was changed.. It was better, not perfect and then a few months in I noticed what looked like a small crack in one panel. They said it was an imperfection, they changed that glass panel again. The new pane they replaced has no imperfections but I think the haze looks worse. The issue is called white haze, a defect in the manufacturing process. You can google it. I found the problem by doing research myself. The techs that came out from the supplier I ordered from didn’t know what it was. If you look at the glass straight on you don’t usually see it, but on a very sunny day you can , and definitely if you look at it from an angle. In my research I learned that tempered glass does allow for some haze, it’s the nature of the glass but it shouldn’t have big white streaks. The supplier I bought it from dealt with Windsor for me. The glass is made by Cardinal, which is a huge supplier who makes glass for most of the big window and door companies. I just think Windsor uses a lesser quality production. I’ve learned to live with It, but next time I will not buy from Windsor.

A simple matte black knob would work. If you really want to modernize it while keeping the doors, removing the etch detail or replacing with plain glass would help. Before you spend money though, just pop them off and live without them for awhile. See how you like it.