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 ?

I only have blinds in the bedrooms, and on the theatre room. The house sits in the middle of 13 acres overlooking the ocean on one side and a beautiful valley and national park on the other. There is no way anyone except the sheep and cows could see in. I'd rather not have my view obstructed by anything over the window.

I love having a sneaky peak in someone’s window when it’s dark outside. I often find myself thinking, oh what a gorgeous lamp and such.

Best of all is being on the top deck of a bus in Edinburgh in the winter and seeing into the tenement flats.

Have nets. Wouldn't be without them or shutters. HATE people looking in

And they're called Voile now. Much posher 🤣

I prefer net curtains to people who use the term common.

I love net curtains also
Sadly I seem to be rather adverse to the washing machine or I would get some,and even when I go to the utility room it seems to be full of laundry belonging to the horses (which I put in there a few weeks ago and forgot about)
I digress, only people who are embarrassed about something or have something to hide give a shit about who is looking through the windows

I don’t think nets really protect you from being seen. I suppose a bit. But once lights are on people can still see you in your jammies.

You close the curtains when you put the light on. Nets or voiles only work if outside is brighter than inside.

I love people who leave the windows open on cold winters mornings and evenings. There is nothing nicer than seeing warm, golden light spilling from windows into darkened streets and wondering what’s going on inside. I blame the pictures from Lucy and Tom’s Christmas and the descriptions of the Large family in A Little Princess for my feelings!

When I was growing up only common people had no nets.

It was also common people that didn't open their curtains early in the morning.

I couldn't live with no window coverings unless in the middle if my own fields. I certainly couldn't lounge about in pyjamas if people could see in.

The house sits in the middle of 13 acres

Well so of course you don’t need anything. However many people live in the middle of cities with many random strangers walking past.

We have nets. We’re in a 400 yr old cottage in a rural village, and rural burglaries are through the roof. They’re up as an added layer of uncertainty as to who is/isn’t in. We have an alarm as well but visual deterrents are part of making your home look like possibly too much bother to break in.

We have bay windows, so you have to bend a curtain rail to go round them, which stops them working so well. I got so fed up of fighting with them to open and close them, that I just gave up and left them open. In the end we agreed they may as well come down.

So get some decent tracks up. Blimey, my mum has massive bay windows, as do many people on her street, she just put up good tracks, I’ve never had an issue closing her curtains.

I don’t know where people live, but round my way (south, near London) net curtains are common. I have them on the lounge, plantation shutters and black out blinds on the front bedrooms (back isn’t overloooked).

My nearest neighbours are over the road, across a field and behind a hedge. You can't see into the house from the gate either as it's higher than the road and blocked by a caravan. The hedge is higher than even tractors can see in, and there's trees, a river and a field around the other sides. Anyone coming through the gate and attempting to look in the windows would be met by a pack of slavering dogs giving the Hound of the Baskervilles a run for his money. I'm hoping to get solid shutters for thermal reasons and to put the curtains up again once decorating is finished. They're only used as an extra layer of warmth anyway.

I do think that it's interesting that it can be very cultural and to do with styles of houses. I now live on a small island, but when I lived in Australia, the only place that would have net curtains in their windows would be grandma's house. Any modern homes would look incredibly old fashioned and out of place with nets. Even curtains don't have much appeal anymore, my place in Oz only has blinds. Anything with a net curtain would certainly be likely being sold as a fixer upper.

Big bay window, can't afford blinds for it. Tried nets but they were destroyed alternately by cats and toddler, so now I just have the proper curtains.

I don't often close those because I like to look at the sky and the tree outside even when it's dark, I love how cosy it looks from outside, I feel so cooped up with them shut, and the room is just high enough and far enough from the road that I can only be seen when standing up, not all the time sitting on the sofa etc.

Not in the UK, but we have tinted windows. It’s just like a normal window from the inside, but looks like a mirror from the outside. We use it for temperature regulation but the privacy bonus is excellent too. Can’t understand why they’re not more popular. You can see in at night if the lights are on but then that’s when the curtains can be drawn anyway.

You wonder why people don't have net curtains....?

I remember my parents commenting on those back in the 1970s, saying how 'old lady' they were.

We live in a bungalow and both bedrooms are at the front, so we have plain voile curtains in both bedrooms. They reduce incoming light slightly, but it's worth it for the privacy and the convenience of being able to change clothes without drawing the curtains.

To those saying that nets/voile curtains often look grubby/turn yellow, there's no reason they should be, as they are very easy to take down and wash. The sort of people who leave their nets to get filthy are often a bit lazy generally about housework/cleaning, or are too elderly/ill to keep on top of these tasks, so if their nets are filthy the chances are the rest of their home isn't much better. I wash mine a couple of times a year (which is enough as we don't smoke or have pets) and let them partly dry before straightening out any creases and rehanging them back in the window to finish drying. Much easier than cleaning slatted blinds. Another advantage with nets is that they keep out flying insects during the summer.

We also have curtains at every window, and close them once it gets dark. The privacy makes us feel more secure.

OP, YANBU to find it puzzling that some people have nothing at all covering their windows. I couldn't live like that, I'd feel like I was in a goldfish bowl, regardless of where I lived. To anyone implying that people who have nets are "common" or "chavvy" - YABU.

I value my privacy and don't like the idea of stranger's being able to see the inside of my house unless invited in.

Forgot to say, I have both normal curtains and net curtains. For everywhere except the bathroom which has privacy screen.

Has everyone without window coverings watched You?

I live in the middle of a village and to stop the goldfish bowl effect, I have a number of beautiful stained glass fire screens on my downstairs window sills, which cover the bottom and f the windows, so don't block much light. Of course, an occasional rider or lorry driver can still look down into my rooms...

Some folk, i e me, just really dont care

I didn’t have any curtains in some rooms for a couple of months simply because I couldn’t afford them straight away!

I don’t like the old school style net curtains. I guess I don’t love the newer style sheers either but didn’t have a choice - we live in a house with 2.5m floor to ceiling windows so it’s basically living in a greenhouse.
I wouldn’t want to keep the curtains closed 24/7 as you need natural daylight so I got these instead www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/matilda-sheer-curtains-1-pair-white-10111984/