To thinkHE should use blinds? Or us?

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We have a kitchen extension with bifold doors since we have this done we can see the man from the house that backs into us walking around naked every night as we sit down for dinner. NO Matter what time we eat.
My husband wants to complain to him but I think it's probably his right to do what he likes in his own house and we would just be told to get blinds. ( I really don't want blinds)
It's extremely off putting and the kitchen configuration means we can't avid seeing him.

Frosted film on your windows....

Strip off too and stare him out.

I do keep waving at him but he doesn't react - maybe he's visually impaired.
I really don't want frosted windows- we've worked hard to get the gate den nice to look out at

He's allowed to walk around naked IN HIS OWN HOME!!!! It's not a public space. If you don't want to see it, don't look or get blinds.

YABU. It’s his home and he can do whatever he likes in it, including walking around naked.

If you don’t want to see it you need to find a way to fix that yourself.

Is there no way to block the view into his house outside, in your garden?

Fit blinds and just use them in the evening. It's unlikely you would see him naked during the day and it will just be when he puts his lights on.

Can't you plant a hedgerow to screen, or raise the fence?

You can point out to him that he can be seen in full glory (incase he is unaware)
If you don't want blinds then put up a high fence or screening shrubs or trees.
Unfortunately for you he can walk around naked in his own home unless he is purposely exposing himself to children or the general public.
One neighbour who can only see him due to the extension they have had built and refused to do anything to mitigate the view falls under tough shit

If you don't like the view, you need to get blinds..not him

Whilst he is allowed to do that it might be worth letting him know that you can see him he might not have realised.

Is he downstairs or upstairs? Surely there is a fence in the garden to separate the properties? If he's down stairs and you can see him then I'd put a fence or tall bushes up.

YABVU. You extended, he's probably been happily living his life without interruption before now and suddenly you want him to change. Just get some blinds, what's the problem? You can get them fitted into the panels they will be unobtrusive.

You don't want blinds but you want him to have them? How is that fair?

You extended and created a sight line into his house. If you're unhappy with that for whatever reason, you should deal with that yourself. You say that YOU really don't want blinds, that's not anyone else's problem though. It's a bit odd for him to be wandering around naked but he's in his own home and presumably it wasn't an issue before you built your extension.

Put a pleached laurel in - they grow sideways like mad and will cover up the view of his willy.

But you chose to have an extension that would allow you to see in his window. Now , you don’t like the view.
Not too sure what to say, really, other than get blinds/shutters / curtains or frosted glass or get a fast growing hedge planted.
Your neighbour is perfectly entitled to do as he pleases in his own home.

It's a bit odd for him to be wandering around naked but he's in his own home and presumably it wasn't an issue before you built your extension.

Maybe neighbour is unhappy that the Op has created a sightline into his house and this is his revenge

You built the extension, you get the blinds.

I had a young person living in my home many years ago. One day I was walking down the street and had sight of his bedroom where he stood stark bollock naked for anyone to see. I advised him not to stand near his window naked in the future. However he carried on doing it and then a neighbour complained to me that they'd also seen him. I took advise from the police who told me that if someone complained that a child had seen him nAked it could be considered an offence. I can't remember what they said but maybe something to do with exhibitionism ?

If he's walking round downstairs, get a taller fence at the bottom of your garden? You can't stop people from doing what they want to do in their own home unfortunately.

Plant some bamboo? We need a diagram really though.

You wave at him?!

Yes, the right to be naked in your own home is limited. You can't stand bollock naked in your front room while children from the nearby school are going past every day (this happened when I was at school and the chap got arrested!). But if it's a genuine oversight then maybe drop him a note just so he knows he's now visible. He might just be so used to it he hasn't really thought about it.

To be honest, you built the extension, so you created the view, so you need to solve the problem if it offends you.

However, is he a nice neighbour? If so I think I would be tempted to pop round and just mention in a jokey way that you can see him in the buff now because of the extension and you wanted to let him know just in case he wasn't aware...

I would maybe let him know that your family (with young children) can see him every night, and had he realised? If he is brazen and says 'yes not my problem' then you have to sort it out yourself. Or, he might not have realised, or you might just embarrass him enough that he stops.