There is a new estate being built on the outskirts of a local town, where the houses on one perimeter have a wonderful view, so all the houses built over looking the view have huge staircase and downstairs windows. They are completely unoverlooked from anywhere and the road they are off is several hundred feet away.
Nevertheless quite a number of them have thick net or other curtains, seemingly drawn all the time or have venetian or vertical blinds seemingly always shut and I cannot quite understand why, if they do not want the view and/or have privacy issues, they bought the houses. There are 2 new estates, on each side of it with similar sized houses, but no big windows and at least another 6 new estates with large houses being built in and around the small town.
Yet there is nothing exceptional about this. You can see it time and again, even with architect designed houses. The house is designed with huge windows, and they are immediately, smothered in curtains or blinds.
In our village a developer squeezed two houses where there was one house on a smallish site. As a result one house, which is on a corner, has a paavement 6 feet from the house on two sided. The moment the new people moved in they fitted thick lined curtains to every window and shut them, and only oopen them an inch or two at most, although after about 5 years, they ahve installed one plantation shutter.
But the query is, when there is plenty of alternatives, buy a house with huge windows and cut out all the light by blocking them with heavy nets, curtains or blinds.
I am aware that a few people are allergic to light, but if there were as many as houses with large windows blocked. It would be widely discussed.
