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?

I hate net curtains, but out of necessity have a plain white voile on our living room window as we are immediately onto the street with no front garden.

Net curtains remind me of my Mum's kitchen nets back in the 70's/80's when everyone in the street would come and visit and sit around the table chain smoking and the net curtains never got washed. They were a grim shade of orange. Gross. I'm still traumatised by them and could never have them myself.

We live on a busy road that is a bus route. Don't have nets downstairs - I'm far too nosey, and don't really care if people look in. We do have them for our upstairs bedroom though - buses are double deckers and when someone parks in the bus stop, the buses often stop at the end of our drive. I don't think anyone really wants to see me just out of the shower 😆

Life’s too short @CourtneeLuv; wear the red shoes.

I have a bottom half voile curtain in my front room. Huge window and a busy road. Don't want people looking in.

We have nets, if we didn't we'd have no privacy because the windows have been designed to flood the place with light.

They're not the same as the nets my gran used to have, more like sheer voiles but for all intents and purposes...they're net curtains!

Plus because we rent we can't install more aesthetically pleasing alternatives.

I find it more weird that people are content to have complete strangers be able to watch them in their own home than the idea that people still have net curtains.

We do, almost everyone up the street does, we get ours from John Lewis by the metre, they are plain ones

I have them in the bedroom we mostly have pretty Roman blinds but the bedroom needs full privacy. Mine are nice ones from ikea

I do, otherwise everyone coming down the street can see into my bedroom and living room.

Actually if you look around most people have them

If I had more money I would love wooden shutters. I might save up and buy them for a guest room (that I'm really going to do you for myself to watch YouTube and paint my toes and drink wine/)

Oooh, not in our street, most people (including us have blinds).

We have plain voiles in the downstairs front room as the pavement is directly outside our front wall and large Edwardian windows. We have Venetian blinds in the front bedroom as letting light in is less of a consideration and we don't have double decker buses or stilt walkers passing.

I have a voile panel as got sick of nosey feckers rubbernecking into my lounge despite sarky waves & two fingers.

My mum has them, but she’s had them since moving into the house in 1989 so I think that’s important to note.

I do like a billowy voile.

We have them at the living room window because it's close to the street and people used to look in. A plain voile panel bounces enough light back that you can't see in during the day, without making the room noticeably darker.

If we lived somewhere off the beaten track we almost certainly wouldn't.

(Shutters weren't possible, odd shaped bay window)

I thought the curtains in government windows were to do with bomb protection…

I recently put a voile in my daughters bedroom and it’s great because it keeps out bugs etc. definitely doing it in more rooms now!

Nope, haven't seen them for ages. We and most of the street have plantation shutters, a few have frosted film. Our living room windows are almost right into the street

I do have them but like PPs they are the plain white voile type. I can't stand having flies in the house in the summer and find they help, they also help my plants to not get sunburnt.

On a side note do billowing voiles remind anyone else of Demi Moore's apartment in St Elmo's fire?

Yep, we have ground floor bedrooms and live on a busyish road. I actually bought new ones last week and did six rooms for £40 which is a good ‘for now’ solution. I don’t have them on the big windows at the back.

I have net curtains but they've definitely become quite outdated.

Very few people on my street have them. Whenever I walk along my road I can see quite clearly into their living rooms (I don't peek in on purpose, it's just hard not to notice!) I couldn't feel comfortable sitting in my living room with people walking past being able to see in.

I think the ones at No 10 are bomb curtains, rather thicker and much baggier than normal ones, and they are weighted at the bottom and tucked behind pelmets at the bottom. Supposed to shield office occupants from flying glass in the event of a bomb blast.
Many, if not all, offices in Whitehall have them. They did their job in the 1991 mortar attack.

We do but they're nice ones 😂

Not round my street - glancing through to the houses opposites, mixture of blinds, curtains or privacy stickers, oh wait I spot one house with net curtain!