to think there is nothing wrong with net curtains?

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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?

No particular view on them tbh. However, what I do think is odd is when people, particularly on a busy street, have nothing on the window. When the curtains are open people walking past can see them going about their business, watching tv etc. I would feel really self conscious and unable to relax if that was me.

I have butterfly nets on my living room windows. I like them and think they're pretty.

Ooh I like those long.

I'd like to only do half my window but bit sure how that would look.

Viva - that's what we have. Like I said top half stay fully open to the side most the time, bottom too sometimes. Otherwise shuttered tilted open at bottom. You need a company to come and measure and make for you usually

YABU, they are horrible.

When we lived in London we weren't bothered by anyone seeing into our sitting room. I think if we were then we would have gone for the shutters on the bottom half of the window. Middle of nowhere now so not a problem anymore.

I do quite like those white wooden things that you pull up from the base of the window which you often see on posh bay windowed Victorian houses.

Goodness Ours are sashes so we'll only do the bottom half.

When DS was tiny I stuck white tissue paper up on the window out of desperation - this room is like a goldfish bowl!

We have bottom up blinds. They do the trick, not as permanent as frosting, and can be hundreds of different fabrics.

Nets are hideous, fact.
I have sheer roller blinds.

We have nets. I'm happy with that. I don't like the vertical blinds - too office-like. I don't like the horizontal blinds - talk about your dust magnets and the kids seems to be happy to bend or damage them anyway by looking through them and bending them. I hate the frosted sticky sheets - I outgrew stickers years ago, thanks, I'm not going to put a big naff looking sticker on my window.

Nets are easy to take down and wash and restrict the view for people outside looking in. Works for me.

I hate those lace net curtains especially when you see them all yellowed/brown looking in someones kitchen.

We only have "net" curtains though, as full length, lovely, flowy, white curtains (i think people call them voiles and they are meant to go behind normal ones). I'm not fond of heavy material curtains and really like it in summer when the windows are open and they billow in the wind like a Kate Bush music video

We have one net curtain and it belongs to our landlord. It's on the lounge window and just cause I like to lounge about in my pjs and not have people looking at me. Mind you our house is a car and a half away from the path and we are at the bottom of the close so not exactly Piccadilly Circus here. Also thing it adds some security as people can't look in and see we have a 50" TV and a ps3 etc. I don't like them though and would prefer not to have them.

Before we got new windows, we had them on all the windows but the fittings were attached to the old wooden window frames and we now have UPVC so we just got a new fitting for the lounge. I like not having them on all the other windows as we don't need them. You can't see in them.

Would love a net curtain with butterflies on though. The landlords one is old and manky now.

I have these
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Not solved the other windows yet - I have roller blinds that I basically never open

Window film, etching sprays, sand blasting, voiles, blinds...

All alternatives to horrid nets.

Film or etching type solutions stop you seeing out.

Blinds and shutters are rather expensive

Just leaves voiles (which, we are told, are just posh nets)

Each to their own, I say (I have wooden venetian blinds but have to hoover the buggers every week as they are dust magnets)

Mrskoala I'm with you. I have really big windows and no nets or anything else. I pull curtains/ blinds when it's dusk otherwise people are welcome to look in all they want.

I want to look out without anything in the way.

Parkingfred, window film, etching sprays and sandblasting would mean I couldn't see out, voiles are just another name for 'horrid nets' (plus they would get filthy in our house touching the floor) and blinds are a bitch to clean and would make my house look like an office.

No covering is not an option, so I have no choice but to have 'horrid nets'

Not that easy is it?

We have white wooden shutters a bit like the partial ones in a pp. Tilt them slightly upwards so we can see out but no one can see in.

I remember spending waaay too much time at a net curtain counter in a certain South London shop as a child and wishing I could be somewhere else. Put me off nets for life. My DM hearts the things.

Lmfao

I live in Islington.

All the old people who have lived here for the last 50 years have nets.

All the rich people who have bought recently have white plantation shutters.

All the people who, like me, have just scraped enough money together to buy or rent here, have nothing ! Although I am saving up for the shutters!!!

No nets here.

We have a big front window, a small front garden and you can just about see into the house, cos it does look dark looking in.

We're on a cul de sac, so not masses of people looking in, and I'd rather have lots of light coming into the house (which does look nice and airy) than have nets which block some of the light coming in.

I do, however, close the curtains in the evening at the point when I switch lights on.

Do films really stop you seeing out? Might stick with my awful nets.

I think I would rather run around the street in my knickers. Windows are for looking out of, not into. I think shutters or blinds are ok.

I think nets can be beautiful done the right way, guess it's all a matter of taste and the world would be very boring if we all liked the same things.