To wonder why people have no blinds/ nets at the window ?

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I’ve always grown up with news and curtains at the windows and have always had nets and curtains or blinds at my window however I have noticed when I pass other people’s homes some homes don’t have anything covering the window.

Surely if your house is on ground level and people pass by they can stare and look right inside your house ?

Do you ever worry about privacy ?

I get it’s not invasive during the day but surely when is nighttime and the lights are on indoors it must feel like everyone can see you ?

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[FermatsTheorem]

I personally hate nets because they make me feel claustrophobic. Also hate vertical blinds - like PP said, why would you want your house to look like a 70s office block on a Slough roundabout?

But if you like nets, crack on OP. The main thing is to feel comfortable in your own house, rather than worrying what other people think about it. (My mate thinks TV cabinets are hideous and can't understand why I have one; I can't understand why you'd take a beautiful Victorian period sitting room and slap a wall-mounted big screen TV on one wall like she's done - but each to their own. Doesn't stop us being friends!)

[littlemissdynamite]

I don't think nets are common or chavvy (very rude to say that!) But I do think they are VERY old fashioned. Last time they were relevant was around 1989.

Don't see what is wrong with blinds though! Loads of people in our village have them! We have curtains across our windows, but no nets or blinds, as our house is elevated around 10 feet above the level of the road, and we also have a 36 foot long front garden and driveway, so no-one can see anything from the public footpath except our ceiling really! (And maybe the top 2 feet of the walls.)

I do think it's weird when people don't have blinds (or at least close the curtains,) when it's dark, when they have a house that is the same level as the road and footpath, and only 6 to 15 feet or so from people walking past. You can see straight in when they have the lights on when it's dark, and it's a bit weird.

[Yika]

I like looking out of the window and I like my house to be flooded with daylight. I don't care if passers-by can look in. They can hardly see very much just glancing up as they walk. When it gets dark I close the curtains.

[PinkSparklyPussyCat]

To those poster who think that nets are common or old fashioned - what do you suggest I do as I live in a ground floor maisonette and my bedroom is at the front?! I'm not cleaning blinds and I think shutters look awful so no other choice really!

[PookieDo]

@YoTheGinPussyOfStMawesOnThigh

My cat would enjoy a running jump to put her claws through them to the bottom and then I would have giant net holes

I can block her from the upstairs window with a roller blind when I need to

[Smellbellina]

I don’t because the view out the window is lovely and people rarely walk by.

[CTRL]

Thanks for the input guys

Nice to be able to ask a question on here and get some different opinions. Not quite sure what the condescending posts were about though... then again - this is Mumsnet

[PancakeAndKeith]

Exactly, Pink.
But no, according to MN rules you should just not care if the world sees you in the nip.

[ParrotsForLife]

I don’t care if someone looks in. They’d likely only see my fat ass putting something in my face whilst watching police interceptors.

[PookieDo]

You can get roller blinds that have a kind of see through panel on them, they look quite nice. More net like but less old fashioned

I just don’t like nets, they get dirty and never stay clean looking for long. They also need cleaning as do blinds! I have roller blinds that seem to just be wipe clean. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[RB68]

I loathe nets and blinds to be honest so have none, but also we are not at street level visible to anyone except people that walk up and down our private road which is not lit at night. Upstairs if lights on curtains are pulled but the back of the house is visible to no one less than 100yds away, The only people who would be on our private rd are neighbours - there are only two houses further down. They just are not necessary. If I lived on a new estate i might consider having blinds within the windows at the front of the house downstairs and a blind in the kitchen but that is all

[WitsEnding]

I live on a bus route and double decker buses stop outside my bedroom window at least twice an hour. Happy to say I need nets in the daytime for privacy and curtains at night to keep the room dark. Downstairs, don't bother too much who can see my tatty furniture.

[Nonnymum]

I don't have nets because I don't like them and don't have blinds because I think they are too dark. I close the curtains when it's dark. If people glance in when they pass I don't think they will see anything interesting.. But why do they look in anyway. They would have to turn their head to see in and stare for a while to see anything surely that's just rude!

[StarlingsInSummer]

We have our sitting room at the back and wooden shutters - we don’t always shut them when it gets dark but no one can see in unless they’re in our garden. I’d definitely be shutting them if the sitting room was at the front, even though we live in a quiet close. Otherwise I’d feel like I was living in a goldfish bowl at night.

[2018SoFarSoGreat]

I have nothing on my front windows - this is the second house in which I have chosen to keep it bare. Lovely big windows, great view. We are the second last house in a cul-de-sac, and street is quite wide, but people across the road could look in, if they choose to. DH insists that 'everyone can see me' if I dare to go from a room all the way in the back and cross the hallway even marginally uncovered. Claims I am an exhibitionist. Perhaps, I don't care.

We do have a ground level garage though, so are not on street level.

I absolutely love walking and looking into other houses, especially love seeing the bustle of lives being led - just the glimpses are delightful.

[MonstranceClock]

I don't know anyone who doesn't have net curtains. Blinds look horrible.

[WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll]

We once rented a holiday cottage where the bathroom window, which was overlooked by the backs of several neighbouring properties, had no curtains or coverings whatsoever.

It turned out that it was owned by a celebrity*, so maybe having no privacy whatsoever is just her normal.

*We discovered that when we had a problem and tried to contact her. The only number we could find was that of the cleaner, who informed us that she (the owner) was far too busy to be trouble herself with trivialities like us that. Not that we'd ever heard of her back then when the cleaner told us her name, though....

[lotusbell]

I have net curtains, live on a busy main road. What I don't get is people who sit in their front room of an evening watching tv, with their lights on but don't draw their curtains! Plenty of people do it round here.

[berlinbabylon]

Net curtains are hideous. I love looking in people's windows, especially in nice houses Agree.

[50shadesofblackclothing]

I live in a very, very rich part of London- the same part that Noel Gallagher just complained about because he lives between 2 housing (council) estates and needless to say I'm on the LA part. I LOVE walking my dog of an evening through the streets, I have a good nosey into every house I pass and don't give a fuck if the residents are looking back at me disapprovingly. Christmas is the best, they all have beautiful trees, lights outside, the works. My husband goes mad if we walk around, he can't understand why on Earth they'd allow 'lookers'. I'm glad they do. We're overlooked on both sides by neighbours higher than us as we have the ground floor flat and it's small so if I don't have nets my bedroom can be seen, I can't dash from the bathroom to bedroom topless if I've forgotten a bra (I dress in bathroom), can't wander about waiting for my tan or hair to dry without being looked upon. Kids can't get dressed in their bedrooms with privacy. So we have nets. We love them! They might be chavvy but so are we, we're working class and all our family members in the same situation use them too.

[Ffsnosexallowed]

We often forget to put our blinds down. We're not doing anything that we wouldn't want anyone seeing. However... We have no window coverings on our kitchen window and I have been known to come down in middle of the night for a glass of water forgetting that I'm practically naked...

[RoundOf]

I don't know how people can feel settled and cosy at night with nothing in the windows and anyone being able to see in.

[MonstranceClock]

You have to be a whole new level of weirdo to actually actively stare into peoples houses.

[BrendasUmbrella]

We have voile panels up, so pretty much nets but no pattern. I even have them on windows that are not overlooked. I dislike "naked" windows, they make me feel like the outside hasn't been shut out iykwim. I would be a nervous wreck in one of those modern houses that are more glass than brick.