Dealing with resentful neighbour

[Notcontent]

I live in a terrace house in London and the houses are small, with very small gardens and close together. I recently extended my kitchen very slightly - something all my adjoining neighbours have done. A neighbour to the back of me expressed her disapproval on a number of occasions - no real reason really and she herself extended a few years ago. Anyway, because her house is quite close she keeps looking through her window into my kitchen. It almost feels like she is trying to make a point. I am getting some blinds soon and hopefully growing some tall bushes in the harden... I can’t put trellis onto the fence (she has objected to that) but could I put some talk trellis closer to my house, as a privacy screen? Would that be slowed?

Just draw a big cock on a piece of paper and stick it on your window ,she’ll get the message then 🐔

You can put trellis or screens in your own garden, I built a concrete container about a metre high and 3 metres long just inside the fence line and planted bamboo in it great for screening

Wear these whenever you're in the kitchen.

Thank you. I like both suggestions!

Wave enthusiastically at her at every opportunity!!

Have you considered privacy mirror film on your windows?

You can put your own fence up to 2m high in your garden.

Yes, do what you want, OP. Neighbours are the worst. Rise above it.

As an aside, please review your posts before you submit them.

Could it not be that she's just...looking our of her kitchen window?

Now the houses are closer perhaps it just feels more like she's looking into your house. Is she not allowed to look outside?

Thanks everyone. And apologies for the multiple typos in my original post.

As an aside, please review your posts before you submit them

Thanks everyone. And apologies for the multiple typos in my original post

Don’t apologise for typos @Notcontent, plenty of posts are full of them. It’s still perfectly easy to read and understand what you’re trying to explain. Some posters just can’t resist a chance to stick the boot in - but they only make themselves look ridiculous, not you!

Back to your post, bamboo in pots/planters are great for this sort of thing. We have also erected a freestanding high trellis panel across one section of our garden for privacy, it works really well. We grew evergreen clematis up it for year round colour. It’s within our boundary so the neighbours can’t do or say anything about it.

Frosted glass film on your windows would be a cheap and easy solution. Amazon sell it.

You don't have to do what your neighbour wants you to do! It's their problem they don't like trellis etc - as long as it's under 6ft you're fine. Frosted film works well - people sometimes do only lower half of a window because if that's covered there's not much anyone can see but the top half still lets the light in fully.

I've got this
www.diy.com/departments/d-c-fix-bamboo-white-film-l-1-5m-w-680mm/200338_BQ.prd
but you can go more bold too if you wish
www.diy.com/departments/d-c-fix-tulia-floral-multicolour-self-adhesive-film-l-2m-w-450mm/1071213_BQ.prd

I'd get some privacy film too.

You can buy planters with trellis attached, that sounds like it might be useful as nothing will be attached to the actual fence?

@Notcontent
OP, I was in my daughter's garden on Saturday, and I was asking about the fruit trees and spinach and tomato she was growing, next thing, the opposite neighbour's blind came down furiously, they must have thought we were peering at their property.

Put up a tall fence on your side, privacy film for your windows and ignore her!