Net curtains

Confession time; although I do not have the despised net curtains, I do have a long and high privet hedge at the front, live in a cul de sac.......maybe a bit more Hyacinth than I care to admit.

My front garden is huge and I live in a cul de sac so it would be only the same old neighbours walking by, with binoculars, who could look in my front room, and the bedrooms at the front are for visitors. I must admit though, if I am out walking in the dark, I do like to take a quick sneaky peep through people's windows, as I pass, if they have the light on and their curtains aren't drawn. I believe they leave their lives on show for that purpose!

God, I hate nets. Bit too Hyacinth Bouquet to my mind. All prissiness and flowery sofas. I am with GabriellaG on this, give me a house with stuffed bookshelves. I assume, GabriellaG that you also subscribe to the theory that one's bookcase should be wider than one's tv?

glammanana my lovely neighbour used to do mine every week.I gifted her my tin of Brasso. She developed dementia and had to go into sheltered accommodation last yearI miss her still, not least for her Brasso abilities

My front windows are no more than a couple of metres from the pavement, so I put voile panels over them when I moved in. Now they have vertical blinds instead.

Voile panels; we have huge windows and I don't want the neighbours seeing our muddles!

Alishka My mum was the same also with the brass ware on the front door it had to be gleaming.

Haha ?? very droll Mrs phoenix

My mum used to judge people by their net curtains. She'd be over 100 now

How very dare you Gabriella! I'll have you know that the room we retire to once we have eaten our evening meal is the sitting room, we have napkins (never "serviettes) and only use the word "belly" when referring to a certain cut of pork!

Humph!

A salesman must have had a really good day when he arrived at my cul de sac as all the other neighbours all have vertical blinds of the same colour and pattern all too uniform for me,I have white cotton lace nets to the windows and in the lounge voils that are left open they are fitted on a gold pole which reaches from wall to wall giving the illusion of a big window it looks very smart GG54

Gabriella we don't actually have a front garden, so to speak, but the house opposite could easily see me in all my naked loveliness!

My cottage is on a picturesque lane and opens directly on to the lane, so I get (did get!) a lot of tourists peering in through my front window. I fill it with flowers and plants and seasonal arrangements so they have to peer very closely indeed! I wave to them cheerfully and they quickly disappear!

I think you're below the table, never mind the salt phoenix
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Whatever you want it to mean Charleygirl5 ??

PenE we have a vertical fabric blind in our home office, South facing and the only way to control the light that comes in, but wouldn't have them in other rooms.

It's brilliant in that room, can control how far across the window they come, also the angle of the slats!

I agree about some blinds being like office ones, but not the lovely pricey plantation shutters which I lust after.
If I was a crook wandering the streets looking to con old folk (which I hasten to say I'm not) I would be drawn to houses with net curtains, especially bungalows with nets.........be warned!

phoenix luv, what man is tall enough to stand in your front garden and get his kicks looking through your bedroom window.
Behave ?

Gabriella what do you mean- it is a class thing?

I hate net curtains - but we have them at every window! This is because in ‘normal’ times we travel a great deal and the house is empty for weeks at a time. We asked for advice from our local crime reduction officer ( no longer called crime prevention officer ?), who strongly advised them.
We never close our curtains, so if any ‘n’er do well’ is watching there is no difference when the house is occupied or empty - lights come on and off on timers, and even if someone was to get really close to the window they cannot see in.

The thing is Squiffs Squiffy, I like looking into people's sitting rooms. Terribly interesting. Especially the ones with a decent bookcase and looking homey and lived-in, you know the sort....knitting in the side, a newspaper carelessly cast aside, a half empty cup of tea and a sock on the floor.
I'm serious. I'd love to knock and be absorbed into their lives for an hour or two.
Rummage through the books, ask about their lives. I really would.
It all looks so jolly, especially at Christmas. I can dawdle for hours like a secretive dogger.

Erm, have plain type net, but only on our bedroom window, nowhere else!

So, Gabriella G54 does that make me "below the salt"?

Just to add, on that window, also have a blackout blind, and voile curtains that are there as just window dressing!

(I also do something a bit different with those tasselled curtain hold back things, and NO I don't twirl them!)

Oh I have them. I value my privacy. Do not want people staring into my living room but I like to see who is going past!I'm never tidy enough to have my rooms on view to the neighbours!.I hate the blinds that a lot of the homes near me seem to have instead I would feel to closed in.Think they are more suited to offices,

I dislike them but can see they have their uses. I'd have a vertical blinds or plantation shutters for preference but like to see out and I dont mind people seeing in - it's only us!

Yes I love mine. Have an older house I think it fits