AIBU to love looking in people’s windows!

[LittleRa]

I’m on maternity leave and my baby loves the pram (was a surprise as older DD hated it!) and naps well it, but wakes up when I stop walking. I also do the school run twice a day for older DD. So I find myself wandering around the streets, exploring parts of the neighbourhood I haven’t been to before. I love looking into people’s front windows! It feels so nosy What they have on their walls; art work, photos etc, how their furniture is arranged, where their TV is positioned (and how big it is!) have all become a source of fascination to me. Has my baby brain turned to mush and I need to get out (of the nearby streets) more? Is is terribly bad manners? Anyone else like a good nose into front windows?
Disclaimer- from the street! Not entering gardens/yards and pressing my nose up against the glass! And also not stopping and gawping- always moving along (aforementioned sleeping baby!)

Please don't do this. And that's on behalf of everyone whose home is their private place. Thank you.

@pinkoctopuss

Please don't do this. And that's on behalf of everyone whose home is their private place. Thank you.

😂

@pinkoctopuss

Please don't do this. And that's on behalf of everyone whose home is their private place. Thank you.

Oh apparently we should keep the curtains shut at all times if we want privacy.

@pinkoctopuss

Please don't do this. And that's on behalf of everyone whose home is their private place. Thank you.

Prepare to be laughed at and told you should keep your house in darkness especially if you live in a council estate.

YANBU

There is a fine art to doing it discreetly as you walk past as nothing worse that making eye contact with someone in their living room. This why I prefer winter just before curtains closed. I like way one of my neighbours has placed their sofa. Am glad another has moved fish task from busy area of room as frightens the fish

I desperately trying to find wide blinds for my gold fish bowl for this reason also

@pinkoctopuss

Please don't do this. And that's on behalf of everyone whose home is their private place. Thank you.

Agree but people will laugh and tell you to buy blinds or curtains. Complete disrespect for other people's privacy.

That's interesting that you think people 'display' their front gardens for the eyes of others -- that genuinely hadn't occurred to me. All the garden, front back and side, is planted and laid out for our benefit, and to make pleasant sightlines when looking out from the house, and not with any thought to being on display to passersby.

The people who benefit most from my front garden are the people who live opposite me. We've joked that we should plant each others' gardens, so we can choose what we want to look at.

@SallySycamore

That's interesting that you think people 'display' their front gardens for the eyes of others -- that genuinely hadn't occurred to me. All the garden, front back and side, is planted and laid out for our benefit, and to make pleasant sightlines when looking out from the house, and not with any thought to being on display to passersby.

The people who benefit most from my front garden are the people who live opposite me. We've joked that we should plant each others' gardens, so we can choose what we want to look at.

The used to be a man who would be stalk bollock naked who would walk back and forth or standing at window with light on, which trust me I did not want to see. I closed my blinds as was not a sight wanted to see.

Seriously those uppity about privacy do you ask postman & delivery person to close there eyes and not look.

Yh I make no apologies that my eyes lack ability to on have tunnel vision and not notice your house that like gold fish bowl.

There's a woman in my area who does this and it properly pisses me off, I don't half find it rude.
I have blinds and curtains and she still looks right through the house if I'm sat on the couch watching TV, pottering round whatever it may be I just am so irritated by the fact she looks right through my house and everyone else's. To me & DH she's been known as 'nosy hole' for 2/3 years.

GloriousMystery

That's interesting that you think people 'display' their front gardens for the eyes of others -- that genuinely hadn't occurred to me.

Look at everybody who happily join all the 'garden display" / garden of the year/ garden in blooms local or national competitions, there are some very proud gardeners around.

I think it's nice, and they improve the neighbourhood.

Agree but people will laugh and tell you to buy blinds or curtains. Complete disrespect for other people's privacy.

some of us manage to have privacy without living in the dark!

If you want privacy, keep your space... private. When anyone walking past can see inside, you are hardly bothered about privacy are you.

Same as most people living in their back garden, not their front. Because they like their privacy!

@LittleRa

I’ve noticed a lot of people have the same artwork up around here- it’s a coastal area and lots of people have the same prints of the coast at our area, or of the distinctive lighthouse. People think their decor is original and unique I remember when BIL was house-hunting few years ago, he said every house had a print by Pete McKee (a popular local Sheffield artist, where he was house hunting) and the Wire DVD box set on the shelf Its interesting spotting trends and fashions.

Semi-related, I’ve noticed so many houses on rightmove etc with the Dishoom cookbook on their shelves! I don’t normally notice bookshelves that much as the pictures are too small but I seem to notice that spine a lot for some reason. That and Harry Potter.

OP, I like seeing it too and I agree it’s normal human nature to do it! I don’t see a problem with people seeing into my house either - obviously stopping and staring or going up to the window is too far but just glancing about is fine. We need to get a new front door and I’ve been walking about the neighbourhood to see what front doors other people have to get inspiration, probably they all want to call the police on me now going by the responses you’ve had 🤷‍♀️

When one of the neighbours puts house up for sale or rent via estate agents it’s even better I get to see whole house