Nets or no nets

I was just thinking the same, baubles. During any hot warm weather we get it is cooler inside our house than out. I suppose that means the walls are effective insulators. We don't do hot here.

No nets!

We are lucky in that all our front windows are tall rather than wide but I hate the feeling of being closed in that comes with nets!

I'm amazed that so many of you need to keep the sun out to prevent the house getting too hot.

#coldscot

I have blinds of various sorts wooden slate, roller and vertical depending on the room and the need for privacy or light filtering (to be able to see TV). Like most people I used to have nets for much the same reason but they were a chore to take down every month - which they needed to keep them white and get rid of insects. I like the idea of some expensive lace panels wafting around French doors overlooking a beautiful terrace and walled garden. We juts have to be practical- if we didn't have blinds in the conservatory for example it would be unusable in the summer.

Yes merlot and I think the term now is 'sheers'. Sounds less bourgeois than nets, doesn't it.
I have them at all our windows, partly for privacy and partly to regulate the amount of sun coming in. I can pull them back if I want a lot of light and draw them if I don't.
I think in the winter they reduce heat loss too - our sitting room has two big picture windows.

Aren't voile panels just posh nets?

They probably filter the sunlight too. I have vertical blinds so that I can tilt them when the sun is bright and save the carpet from fading.

Someone on the telly years ago said that net curtains deterrered burglars.

Nankate
Privacy is the answer.
I don't have nets but vertical blinds.

My house is in a close with three roads and our front window faces straight out down the central road. Open plan front gardens and no hedges.

We have a through living room with a big window at each end, which makes that room just like a goldfish bowl.

Add to that we face west and need to shut out the evening sun or we can't see the television and you get the picture.

I like certain amount of sunshine but blinds or such are also useful in keeping the house cool in hot weather, you can keep the worst of the sun out and stop the bedrooms from getting too hot. The alternatives are drawing curtains which makes it too dark.

In the hot summers we had a few years ago I went continental and closed the blinds as it got hot.

I only have net at the sitting room window and our bedroom. The first because it is a full length full width window and I feel like a goldfish without them. The second because I don't want an audience when I pull back the curtains while in my 'night clothes'

You've answered your own question, NanKate - obviously it does worry some people if people can look into their windows from the front garden or road.

I have wooden slatted blinds, more to keep the sun out of our big windows than anything, it gets so hot.