Who still has net curtains?!

[TheChosenTwo]

Ffs trying to peer into the windows at number 10 and finding the net curtains infuriating! Would love to see the flapping going on behind them 😂
Does anyone know if they just look into the lobby area? Are there screens behind the nets? Can anyone look out of the windows?

My neighbour does. They are awful

What's wrong with net curtains??

I have them on one window. It is a massive 8ft wide full height window and we are on a corner so everyone walks very close to the window. Net curtains ensure we benefit from the light but no one can see in.
No other window has this proximity so no other window has net curtains.

No. Do they even exist anymore? I've not noticed any for ages now I come to think about it.

My mother.

She wants privacy. She also lives rurally, without neighbours, up a long private drive 🤦‍♀️

I do.
If I called them voiles, they would be highly fashionable.

My next door neighbours do. Our houses are identical and if I do say so myself, our house with Venetian blinds looks much nicer from the outside.

We did, growing up in a hot country. They got all dusty and harboured the odd dead fly.

I have net curtains because I want privacy.

My mum does. I do not. Couldn't deal with another special set of things to wash and hang! And yes I like to be nosy, publicly😌

Yes, I do, on windows facing the street otherwise people could see straight through my living room, dining room and a long way down my garden.

Fabrics and design have come a long way. I wouldnt call mine nets, I have lace curtains downstairs, very sheer voile upstairs.

Not in this house but have in previous houses which have had large, unusually sized windows. Usually plain or minimal pattern. Easier to keep clean than other options, smell lovely when hung up damp from a wash and cheaper than custom made blinds.

We have nets on the windows facing the road. What’s wrong with them?! Blinds don’t give privacy as unless you keep them permanently closed people can still see through the slats.

I don't have nets, I have frosted film halfway up the window so I get the light and people can't see in.
Those floating blinds can look lovely too, but frosted film is cheaper :-)

Loved a comment earlier saying Carrie would be trying to steam the wallpaper off 😆

We have cafe-curtain voiles in our sitting room bay because it faces a main road. About to move somewhere on a quiet street with a front garden and bay raised above the road and I am RIDONK EXCITED to live the net-free life. Particularly as the house we’re buying has full-window nets on every window and the thought of tearing them down and letting the light in is giving me life!

Lots of our neighbours have nets.

You wouldn’t see anything very interesting behind the number 10 nets - it’s basically a massive lobby area.

No, not seen any around my street.

I don’t like them but can see that they can feel like a necessity if you have windows right on the street, or a tiny front garden.

I was only thinking yesterday that the ones my neighbours have look awfully old fashioned!

I was brought up being told only skanks have bare windows.

The sort of people that wear red shoes, smoke and eat in the street and don't open their curtains until the afternoon.

Probably don't make their beds either.

😂

I have half nets on the ground floor window close to the street.

I also wear red shoes. I don't smoke, but I have been known to eat in the street. And there have been times when I haven't opened the curtains till after midday. Though if I never opened the curtains, I wouldn't need nets.

I shall be polling the neighbours to see what they think of me having a gentleman* caller in my street-facing bedroom. 😉

*It's probably the lack of gentlemanly behaviour they'd object to...

Back when I was a civil servant, we were told that the nets on office windows were special ones that would stop flying glass in the event of an explosion. Not sure how true that is, especially these days, but I expect they're a good way to stop journalists peering in.

I have nets at the front and at my bedroom
Nearly everyone on my estate has them stops people seeing everything you are doing in you house and as I have a bus stop outside people tend to wait outside my house for ages for buses etc

Yes. But mine have flowers on that matches the colours of the curtains. It's slightly twee but gives much needed privacy for looking at what the neighbours are doing

Yes we have plain white voiles. They look really nice, in my opinion (which is all that actually matters!)