To be annoyed with people looking in my window!

[minesapintofwine]

I live in a terraced house without a front yard, so the front door opens straight onto the pavement. Have lived here since 2003 but only now getting a bit pissed off.

Normally during the day I'm up and about until the evening so don't notice it but this week I have ds off school unwell so spending more time sitting down. The amount of people who look into my house is unreal! Now I'll admit when I walk my dog I can't help but glance into warm cosy houses but I promise I don't peer like these people do!

In the last half hour I've had two full on nosy ones and the bin man had a good look too!

Last week ffs I saw a little girl up against the window with her hands cupped watching the tv!

I have got Venetian blinds which are tilted a bit. So what is the answer? I don't like nets, don't want to close blinds against the daylight. Do I need to rearrange my furniture? Stop wearing pyjamas downstairs?

Aibu to be so irritated or should I just accept its human nature to have a look. Does anyone do this? Or have it happen to them?

I don't think window film looks bad. I think it is the best solution possible when done well. I've used it on two period properties and everyone always asks about it because it's so clever and they want to copy it.

I used to love in a listed building in a busy and quite touristy place so not only did we get the peepers, we'd get people taking photos too. Once I found someone filming a piece to camera outside my front door, right in my garden!

I got photographed twice putting the film in on that house and was glad I went for the opaque stuff. In my current house we have reflective on the front window and a Victorian cut out on the back so we do have curtains and blinds too that we use from dusk.

You see window film used a lot in South West and West London because it's popular with interior designers due to the privacy it gives without damaging the windows and letting in loads of light.

The pictures on the website I linked are true to life and I always use them. I've done three windows now. Two of the windows (well three, I did one and then we had the frame replaced so I had to re-do) had four panes. One was a Victorian casement bay and the other a sash. I only do the bottom panes on the sash.

I put up window film in a small window thag gives me neighbor a view into my bathroom and it looks fine. My neighbors also looks good. I can pop round and take a photo for you

My film has been up for 4 years now and not fallen off or blistered.

Last week ffs I saw a little girl up against the window with her hands cupped watching the tv!

When I was a kid, I would peer in cars or squint through windows to see if it was time to go home, back in the days when kids could roam and I was forever forgetting my watch. I never got caught though!

You need some bottom up blinds ! Blocks the lower part of the window, allows light in from top. We bought ours from John Lewis about 20 years ago, but I expect you can get them online nowadays.

We moved house a few years ago, but the new owners have kept the blinds so they must still work.

I had exact same problem. Solved it by buying Dunelm sheer roller blinds for all downstairs rooms, made an amazing difference.

Tilt your blinds the other way. DP had to tell me this

I have Ikea Borghild voiles on my front windows, £20 and very effective. A neighbour across the road has the frosted stickers and it is very effective, you still get all the light but nobody can see in.