If you have sliding glass doors - DON'T have vertical blinds

Horizontal? The ones that can be pulled up?

That is what we did and while I love them we still needed coverings for them. They aren’t in my kitchen so we did go with fabric.

I don't know if this would work for you but there are a lot of styles of stick on glass film. Like these

We have curtains on our sliders in the kitchen. Not sure what else there is besides curtains or verticals. 😄

We have vertical blinds. They are cream and so very sturdy. It wouldn't be my first choice, but we have dogs, had kids, and nothing else was practical. Several of my neighbors have curtains and they like the look but hate how impractical they are and how dirty they get.

They need make blinds that can read your mind.

I just replaced the sliding glass door from my kitchen to the deck. We had vertical blinds and I hated them. Now we have blinds between the glass and I love it!!

It's not a cheap alternative but it was what I wanted and it works so much better for us.

Merilee

We have pleated fabric blinds (which are vertical) for our patio door at home, and at the lake cabin we previously had a french door patio door with curtains (also fabric) that were hung with café curtain rods at the top and bottom of the windows. I much prefer our pleated fabric blinds than the icky clacky plastic vertical blinds we had at our last house that covered some large picture windows.

Other than those options or a stick on or cling privacy film like THIS from Amazon, or buying the expensive patio door with the blinds enclosed between the glass, I don’t think there are too many other viable options.

And FWIW, the french door style patio doors that we had/have SUCK big time. We still have the one door in the basement, but now that our construction is complete we almost never use that door as a primary entry point anymore. MIL put it in a dozen years ago when she had the original cabin lifted to add a walkout basement and DH and I have both hated that stupid door ever since. Knowing what I do now, I would never ever choose that style of door especially for a location that’s used frequently.

Sorry, we have curtains on our sliding doors in the family room. 

I hate vertical slat blinds and replaced ours with curtains.

I'm linking a previous thread for other suggestions and a side discussion on the limitations of French doors. 

I’ve always had curtains on mine.

We have room darkening drapes.

There's several different options! Check this out: www.blinds.com/blog/the-best-vertical-blinds-alternatives-for-sliding-glass-doors

I personally really like the wood shutter doors option and sliding panels.

We don't have anything. But we have woods behind us and only one neighbor who could possibly see in. And we do not walk around naked downstairs either so no big deal!

We had vertical blinds for many years in our home with sliders. When we sold the house, I replaced them with a curtain raid and curtains with grommets. Looked nice.

But I have nothing if you don't want vertical blinds or anything with fabric.