How would you dress this window?

[Coldhandscoldheart]

Hi, not sure what to do with our living room window. Faces a moderately busy road, so privacy important. Made of butt ugly white plastic.
Difficult to put up a curtain rail above as we can’t drill in far enough 🙄 not sure why.

I’ve bern wondering about the one way mirror film, but I think in winter when it’s darker out that might go the wrong way.
Wondered about a plain net from under the small windows, but not sure how to fix it up.

Also this photo :) please ignore dirtiness of window.

What the fuck are you talking about, @corrielover45? Reported.

You can buy net tension rods if you wanted to put Andy up.

Net up predictive text!

No true corrielover would be so vile!

OP - whatever you do, I would make sure that it didn't cover the glass when fitted, so that you didn't shut out any light. Although I get that it's difficult re. privacy.

God, corrielover, it’s not that bad! 😂
It doesn’t have any graffiti. It’s just a fugly window with that horrible blind up.
I wondered about a tension rod, but all the ones I’ve seen are quite thick.

And aj has the problem. Privacy is really an issue, as is light.

I think there's ones that still let light through on those film things? Otherwise as pp suggested maybe a rod with voile type material?

Could you mount a roman blind in the recess?

You can also get poles that mount from above.

Wooden plantation shitter would be nice.

You could also try curtains but have a pole that extends beyond the window so that the fixing brackets are just past the window recess. You could also have a privacy/light filtering roller blind for privacy/glare.

Oh god. Terrible typo

Shutter.

Plantation shitter 😂

Have you got the right drill bit and setting. Are you drilling through brick?

Is this a new thing, window hate. I don't get the hate for slat blinds either.

@Vitalogy I think so (although setting? Not sure about that, what would we need?) We get so far, then hit something impenetrable. When we moved in the curtain rail was hanging off - I think the previous people had the same problem along with their inability to use a spirit level.

I looked at plantation shutters, but I think they might cut out too much light.
These current blinds keep out a lot of light, and also don’t work very well, because I’ve cut all the strings because babies.

Old brick often has tiny pebbles in. Impossible to drill through straight!

How about a transparent blind? We had one in DD room and it gives total privacy but lots of light.
Something like this: transparent blind

I think so (although setting? Not sure about that, what would we need?) There's a little hammer by the setting switch on the drill. Although as PickAChew said, the pebble issue. I think this was the case in my kitchen, the lintel over my kitchen door, I gave up.

You also get a type of reverse roller blind that pulls up from the bottom.

Like this www.blinds-2go.co.uk/top-down-bottom-up-duo/20224/duoshade-dove.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMInbe89pCV3AIVypPtCh0McA95EAQYAiABEgLiHvD_BwE

Ooo. @Deux, that is interesting.