White curtains?

[Catch583]

Our dining room is quire dark. It's decorated in neutral colours and has stripped wood floor. I want white curtains, proper lined curtains, not voile but nobody has these so is it a bad idea?
DM says it will look cold and the curtains will get dirty.

[OnePlanOnHouzz]

I had white curtains in my first ever house ! My mum and I made them out of heavy painters dust sheets ( high ceilings !) looked good for the five years I lived there !

[dinobum]

In my house they'd be clean for about 20 seconds then covered in finger prints, jam, tomato ketchup, even if Those things had never been anywhere near them