to think there is nothing wrong with net curtains?

[Pipbin]

I'm watching 'Selling Houses' and people looked and one house and said 'oh no, net curtains. Look the whole street has nets'.
Now I know that there are some nets that are a bit old fashioned but are they such a sin?

I don't like nets but have them. We're right on a throughpath and have teenagers walkingbhome from school etc so we do need some privacy. Everyone had nets or blinds. The blinds look sightly better.

I was thinking about the frosted panel stick on things... Any thoughts on that. We honestly need something. Id love to live somewhere better but can't!

'I was thinking about the frosted panel stick on things'

I'd consider these if my windows were right on the pavement. They look a bit more modern but somehow seem a bit drastic, you can't exactly pull them to one side.

I'm not keen on vertical blinds. My mum has them and they block out light. You have to have them mostly shut to get the same effect of stopping people nebbing in. They're a bit 80s office style.

We have sheer roller blinds from John Lewis.

Stops people prying and we can roll them up when we want to live in a goldfish bowl...

Yes. I never pull my voiles back but could if I wanted to. We are about 5ft from the pavement so not right on it. I think the film would be too harsh.

Maybe ill grow some bamboo in the border between the drive and pavement!

Roller blnds wouldn't work for me. We've got a massive bay window and the voiles are only in the bottom half which I like. I wouldn't really want something over the whole window.

A view through nets

I was thinking about doing a stock on panel about half way, then a thin line, then another thin line sticker with no sticker at the top third. No idea what it would be like inside but would at least let light in the top.

I was thinking just frosted look rather than patterned as the pattern is made by gaps and I don't want people seeing in.

It's not the best located house in all honesty...

Fold back Shutter blinds spilt into x2 sections. So covering top window and bottom window. In the day fold the top ones completely back so nothing there and full light gets in. And choose whether to do same at bottom or to jut open slats so light in but people can't look

I personally don't like them - my mother and grandmother have / had them, so to me they do seem terribly old fashioned. But it would never put me off buying a house. In fact, the house we bought had very heavy (and expensive) net curtains in every window. I gave them to my grandmother when we moved in .

But each to their own, and I can see the practicality of them if you live close to a busy road.

please tell me what an alternative is then. I can't think of one, I really can't.

Why do you need anything? Just have nowt.

I don't understand caring if someone looks in. [Confused] Look and be damned i say! It always makes me think of the twits not having any windows, as they don't want people looking in. But missing the point that they are there to look out of.

LtEveDallas The houses opposite you look EXACTLY the same as the last house we lived in. Pretty much down to the car in front. We've put stick on panels on the windows in this house, but our own home, we can do what we like in.

I like my very simple very fine ones (JL Venice). They attract no more dust than anything else (and wash and lot easier), provide privacy (front window only 6' from the footpath) and diffuse light, rather than making the room dark.

What I do find ugly is vertical blinds. Only provide privacy when they're closed and look like they belong in an office.

We have to have nets as our sitting room and bedroom face a very busy road with many people walking up and down - how else to stop them looking in! My MIL lives in rural Ireland and has nets on one kitchen window to stop her only neighbour who is quite far away seeing in her house - now that is mad

We have nothing but I feel judged by passers by who see my dreadful parenting and cleaning skills.

I need nets.

These look quite nice.

What is it like inside with the sticky panela. Anyone any experience of them.

Mrs k we need them as we'd have teenagers closer to us (sofa is next to widow) than the person in the room we're talking to. Tiny room fronting a path that teenagers and drunk people walk down. No way can we have nothing.

I've never had nets by choice before but on this estate we need them in the living room. Oh to have a house where they weren't necessary!

This? But just the bottom half maybe? I don't need anything on the top but does it look better with full height?

I can't have nothing Mrs Koala. I have nosey neighbours that also happen to be my work colleagues and and bosses. I need my privacy.

The house we are moving to is closer to the road and directly opposite a kids play park, so I'll have to have something there too - my living room and both main bedrooms will face it too.

Like Eve I can see out pretty well from mine - possibly more clearly actually. But my house would be like a goldfish bowl otherwise, it's a little narrow lane (not even a road+pavement, just a road that you walk on) so everything/one that comes past is very close. And the local parking wardens stand outside and smoke, as do all the people from the office round the corner. I wouldn't feel comfortable with a bunch of random strangers seeing me topless, and with the layout of the street they wouldn't have to be deliberately looking.

Those are lovey Viva, colonial style.

Viva that looks lovely! Lovely big light room too.

Ours is a tiny boxy house.