Curtains or no curtains

[Redyoyo]

House is going on the market this week and we're in this mayhem painting etc. I've been looking at houses on the market in my area on rightmove and none of them have curtains up on Windows. I have looked out my good curtains and washed ironed all the kids curtains to dress the windows, we have blinds as well. Am i out of touch are curtains not a thing now?

It depends on the room and the view. If the view is to a pretty garden or fantastic landscape, curtains can be distracting. Also in a very modern interior, other window treatments are often more suitable.
In a period house curtains can frame an interesting window and if they are hung on the outside of the frame, make the window seem bigger.
In most cases when viewing a house, I'd expect to see curtains, but honestly I don't think it matters much.

What do they have up instead of curtains? Blinds?

Just put up your curtains. It would look weird if you had curtain poles/tracks and no curtains. I think you're overthinking this - easily done when you're getting the house ready for sale! Good luck

We are buying a house where the guy has lived for 2 years and never put up curtains, rails, blinds or anything. Seems weird to me but maybe its a style now?

It's weird to me as well I would never think not to put curtains up and spending hours ironing the bloody things. My house feel bare without them. It must be a thing with the hipsters big beard no curtains!

Curtains are essential for those that want to sleep past 5am in summer, or don't want a load of heat loss.

Not fatty frilly transparent jobs either.

It depends on whether they are essential for privacy. If people can see in when it's dark you at least need the option of having something to put over your windows, and as a pp says, you need them for light control in bedrooms. I think it looks odd, even vaguely disturbing, to be able too see people living their lives at night - you don't mean to look, but it's a bit like looking at a stage with characters on it, all carefully lit!
We don't have any window coverings downstairs at the back, but we are not overlooked at all, and the outlook is green, so I like the openess of iit, but there are no curtain rails or anything either. If you've got curtains, use them, don't be influenced by what others do.

There is a guy in a ground floor flat near us who doesn't have curtains/blinds up any of his windows. Walking past, it is like watching an animal in an enclosure.....

I don't get it, people can see straight in and there is no privacy!