These are the things we have done so far to harden our home. Both front and back doors are steel doors no window but a peep hole to see who is at door. Garage door is also a steel door. Our sliding glass door we have a masters lock pole in the slide and it is steel so would be very hard to get door open or out of the frame. I am going to buy another one for the top of door for extra strengh when needed. Our windows are casement windows that can only be opened with a crank handle that we do not leave on the windows. But do have them at the windows where we can get to them to open a window fast if need be. Windows are also double pane glass so if they were to try and break them they have two pains of glass to get through. Windows in garage are high up and would be very hard to get to as well as the ones on house but not as high up as garage. We are planning on replacing the storm doors with steel security storm doors later. Right now we are dealing with new air conditioner. So on back burner for now. We do need as said above need to have more lights outside. The one over garage is one that comes on at night and cuts off during daylight. Need one on bedroom side of house. So looking to replace all flood lights. Have been looking at the ones that cut on if any movement outside which at bedroom side would light up bedroom and wake us up to something going on.
Also I am making blackout curtains for if anything happens we will be covering windows so no light can be seen from outside. I have them on two of the bedrooms and have tested them. Turned on overhead lights and the lamps as well and then went outside to see if we could see any lights inside so they work very well. But also we have what they call black out blinds on some of the windows as well. Just bought some for the 2 bathrooms but not put them up yet. Buying them a room at a time when on sell.