To hate net curtains?

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We have recently moved house and our lounge overlooks a road. Dp wants to get net curtains, but I hate them and think they look like something my gran would have. Anyone else agree?

Well I do hope the OP has sorted it, this thread's from 2012.
Zombie!

Well, I love my nets, and like a pp have pretty butterfly ones.

I have the old fashioned Nottingham Lace curtains. They are heavier than nets and give people something to distract them from trying to look through them. My original ones came from Laura Ashley, but there is now only one Mill in Scotland making them:

www.mybtextiles.com/collections/

I also like a second pair of curtains in voile on tracks, like in hotels. My window was definitely a Nottingham lace half curtain window - tried loads of voiles and they all looked wrong.

Well done Queen :)

I think that after three years the OP has probably sorted her privacy issue

Beat me to it Queen! That teaches me to get caught up with stuff then pressing post before re-reading the thread.

Krampus, I agree. Nearly every village cricket club in the country has the equivalent and people seem to love sitting on them from May to October, yet few houses have them. When I ask my friends why houses do not have these porch type additions, I am told it is because of the weather. Yet people have decking outside many houses which are way less hospitable in the event of rain, and in my view do not at all look so good, and not so good to stand your wellies outside the back door in the rain or the snow.

She may not have, I'vebeen meaning to do something about our dining room ones for 5 years

I think a plain net curtain is very similar to a voile. I prefer it with minimal gathering, almost straight across.

Slatted blinds are a pain to clean and I find they reduce the light more. We have them in the bathroom but only because we can't find another waterproof solution - it gets wet from the shower.

I agree with what I said 3 years ago.

Nets are vile
Make me feel itchy

Yanbu. I've got to get something for the windows in my new house. Don't want old fashioned nets but I don't want the stick on film either, too nosy and want to be able to peek out.

Pah, didn't notice it was a zombie thread.

I agree with what I said 3 years ago

Whatevva

I agree the 'nets' need to be a bit heavier than nylon stuff, to manage to hang, but more importantly are a completely different class of fabric. The Scottish place you mention are the only ones to use Nottingham looms I think. I got some from ? the same place some years ago and they converted me from someone who could not stomach 'nets' to a great fan of lace blinds. I use mine like the Victorian or Edwardians did, full length, or at almost the same length as the curtains that hang from a different pole/ rail over them. Open them and close them separately from the curtains. With the windows open they slow dance in the breeze. Magic.

I need some new ones; I washed the old ones in the washing machine, NOT on the handwash cycle, and they have gone into ribbons at the bottom .

I have had lots of ideas, but am now looking for the right pattern to come up on the MYB site. It is the only answer

The old people along the road from me converted me - they had a half curtain with a matching pelmet at the top of the window. Proper lace. (They were in their 80s at the time - would be about 125 now!)

i hate them but i do have them due to having two extremely large bay windows and blinds which i will get eventually, are really expensive for the size i need them.

I have the MN dreaded vertical blinds

I have a net curtain. Function rules supreme in my house, a poorly designed housing development plan means my house and next door have windows opposite each other that allow us full view of each others house, a net curtain suits the situation and it therefore means I don't have to see ndn walking past his window in his underpants