To think that pulling net curtains into the middle of the window and then tying them into a knot is never a good look?

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My new neighbour keeps doing it, I want to knock on the door and ask her to come across to my side of the street and see if she thinks it looks nice.

Kath,good point re gardens and window dressing.

So waht does everyone else do with barfing children - let them throw up on the floor?

Put 'em in the garden Iota.

I has a bucket

There's a huge difference between plain white curtains that are properly mounted (not strung up on some wire) and something like this

As we are talking about nets, can I enquire about the mn general opinion on string curtains.

Now I know that in that picture they are pink, but imagine them in a subtle ivory, gently swooshing.

I saw them in JL last week and initially was eeeewwww but then after stroking them for a bit i thought hmmm maybe quite nice???

oi! you bin in my house, OMDB?

Net curtains are bad, almost as naff as vertical blinds

(Moondog - did you like my careful qualification that I was not accusing anyone on this thread of tarmacing their front garden? I have been on MN long enough to know that otherwise this could lead to a row, see )

Re washing up bowls etc - what if you have morning sickness and rush to the sink to throw up because there's nothing else to hand, but you don't have a washing up bowl? You would have to rip out the entire sink and replace it!

lol me too but I have seen some windows tastefully done, actually.

I like the string curtains, slubbers.

~But every time I come on a thread that degenerates into a style issue, I am reminded that I clearly have no taste

So they're probably boaktastic

I quite like them.
Need a very big room for them though I'd say.
I thought you meant these

Slubber - those are lovely, but wait till your dcs decide it would be fun to try tying them in knots and you have to spend half your evenings trying to unpick them

OMDB - I guess that you get a set of those when you have concreted over your front garden so that you can park your car outside your front window

sorry Squonk, I meant to ask your permission first!

You're kinder than me then Kath.

I've got a hideous set of vertiacal blinds in upstairs hall courtesy of last owners. You are right,they have to go.

Slubber,where do you want to put those stringy things?

BigKnickers, I too despise vertical blinds in non-office situations. Our opposite neighbours have got them and their front window looks like a solicitor's office. Hate 'em (the blinds, not the neighbours).

string curtains are for my mother who has v large bay windows.

Are they too 1970's?

What, net curtains? Me? Never!! Neither will I have a concreated over front garden or own a car probably...

Thoise blinds that go all bunchy when you pull them up are heinous also.

Blinds would look silly in our house because it's an 18th century cottage. Of course really I suppose we ought to take the glass out and replace it with oiled cloth and hang a bit of old sacking over it, to be authentic.

Depends what the rest of the house and room are like slubber...they could work in the right setting I guess

Is she a funky sort or will they be accessorised by World of leather suite and nest of tables? If former I will ok them, if latter, I won't.
Obv.