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?

Yes, I wouldn't be able to rush to the window to gawp out if we didn't have nets

I think lacy nets are rare now but loads of people have pain voiles. We had them in our last house, we didn't want people to be able to see in, but blinds or shutters would have cut out far too much light.

Still? I can honestly say I have never had a net curtain in all my home owning years. 34 of them.

i haven’t seen one for years.

We inherited nets with the house, I'm not keen but I also don't like people looking in the windows.
We looked into shutters but they cost a fortune. What we have now is white painted wooden blinds, they are wide ones, 50mm slats IIRC, and they were very reasonable. We're doing one window at a time.

We do. They were left by the previous owner and we can't afford to get blinds or plain ones/ voiles

I have lace ones at the front of the house, and a lace blind in my bedroom the back - we live on a suburban terraced street with even the houses at the back not so far away. I had beautiful French lace panels for a while, but they've sadly disintegrated now.
I like the look of wooden shutters, but you need space either side of the window for them. I think the blinds that are vertical strips make a house look like an 80's office block, and plain blinds block out a lot of light. If you don't want passers-by seeing into your house, there's not a perfect solution, everything is a compromise really.

I have them, I hate them but I like the privacy and we’re renting so can’t really put anything up. But if I’d known we were going to be in this house as long as we have been I would’ve spent out on decent blinds instead.

I have them in the living room.

It's a wide window so doesn't suit blinds/shutters - not that my cats would let me do that either 😻🤦‍♀️

I also have the nosiest neighbour on the planet - she even looks in when she's reversing off her drive!

If DH is out I keep the curtains closed too🤷‍♀️

Christ no, even when I was breastfeeding twins and got fed up of closing curtains we went for an obscuring film for a few months. Much neater.

My mum has them - giant Victorian windows with proper curtains so doesn't look so awful. I would still junk them personally though.

We have a ground floor flat with the bedrooms to the front of the house and quite close to a busy road so have recently replaced the old net curtains with new viole. Blinds cut out too much of the light, especially as they are north facing. The houses on the other side of the road have the living rooms to the front.. So most of the houses on our side have nets and none of the houses on the other side. (also our side is the side the local primary kids walk down as school is practically next door)

I have made my nets from muslin, they are nice. We have them on the bedrooms. I like something on the window as it filters the light and makes the room more calm. At the front I have a frosted panel at the bottom half of the window so I can peer out over the top and then at the back I don't have anything as no one overlooks.

I am pro-nets.

Does anyone know if they just look into the lobby area?

The “business part” is all at the back I believe. You go through 2 hallways to the back of number 10 where the main offices/cabinet room is. The windows to the left of the door of number 10 are part of number 11. All joined together obviously - the back of 11 overlooks the terrace where they were sipping champagne during some of the parties, and I think 11 houses the whip’s office? I could be wrong though.

Yes, I do. I like them! I also have floral ones in the other bedrooms.

I have voiles. Cheap ones though, quite coarse, not slinky billowy ones. My bedroom window is next to the front door, and everyone coming to the door walks past it and could look straight in. I don't want frosted film because I like being able to look out and see the birds etc in the front garden, which I can do through the voile.

What I don't understand is having net curtains that go up in the middle, so leaving a big gap right where you'd want privacy.

And don't tell me it's because they look nice

Like these beauties

I think when you are sat on the sofa you'd be able to see out through that gap just enough to know exactly who was calling at no.42 without having to get up off your arse and be seen snooping

Not where I am now. In my previous home I had them in the kitchen only for privacy.

Yes as itsna busy ish rd. Like privacy without blocking light.

Windows odd size, would need made to measure. Its rented so not paying out that. We did pay to renew the nets to something less dated pattern and less yellow smelly.

I do. My windows are quite wide and my neighbours quite close so I have nets in the bedrooms. I couldn't care less if they are old fashioned!