What is a Blinking Door? Current Types of Blinking Doors

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Ngày cập nhật gần nhất: 15/4/2026

Content

1. What is a Blinking Door?

2. Current Types of Blinking Doors

3. Materials for Making Blinking Doors

4. Pros and Cons

5. Beautiful and Common Blinking Door Designs

Blinking doors are widely employed in the architecture of townhouses and villas in Vietnam. In this article, let's explore what blinking doors are and the common types of blinking doors in use today.

1. What is a Blinking Door?

A blinking door – Shutter Window is a common door structure combined with windows, main doors, and various other types of doors to capture light and air. The design of a blinking door consists of straight slats (wood/aluminum/glass/iron/plastic, etc.) arranged parallel to each other and inclined at a 45-degree angle from top to bottom.

Flat design with parallel and tilted slats helps prevent rainwater from splashing in during rainy weather while still ensuring adequate light and ventilation for the area. Additionally, blinking doors offer better ventilation than any other type of door currently available on the market.

In Vietnam, the tropical monsoon climate is the region that maximizes the functionality of blinking doors. During the summer, blinking doors provide just the right amount of light and still allow for airy ventilation. If blinking doors are not used in the summer, your room will be excessively bright if you want natural light. Therefore, it's not difficult to come across blinking doors in Vietnam, with one of the most common places being windows.

2. Current Types of Blinking Doors

Throughout their formation and development, blinking doors have undergone various iterations to meet users' needs. Initially, blinking doors only had a fixed 45-degree angle for light intake, but later, customizable light intake slots were designed according to requirements (adjustable angles).

Fixed Blinking Door (Ventilated Blinking Door):

Fixed blinking doors are the earliest and most rudimentary version of blinking doors. They are used to bring in light and air from outside into the house with fixed door slats pre-installed during manufacturing. They are mainly used for windows, bathroom doors, balconies...

Movable Blinking Door (Flip Blinking Door):

Similar to the fixed blinking door in theory, however, the movable blinking door operates more conveniently. For movable blinking doors, users can easily adjust the air and light intake slots by adjusting the door slats.

Automatic Blinking Door:

Automatic flip blinking doors are the most advanced type today as they utilize motors and sensors to automatically adjust the light and air intake slots accordingly. However, this type is expensive due to the additional materials involved.

3. Materials for Making Blinking Doors

There are numerous suitable materials on the market for making blinking doors, with most of the materials used for main doors and windows nowadays also suitable for blinking doors. Below are some of the common materials used for making blinking doors.