I just moved and the flat has zero curtains which a tad strange. But from my kitchen window I can see the KFC next door and I like people watching. I’m not a ground floor flat so I’m not too worried but will be getting curtains for the bedroom.
I live in the middle of nowhere. If you want to trudge for miles across open moorland, bogs and gorse bushes in the dark to peer through my windows, I feel you have earned a peek.
I don’t have any neighbours so don’t have to worry about privacy. I don’t need curtains as there is no light outside at night to keep out, I do have curtains in the living room but that’s for decoration and they never get closed.
Our guest bedrooms all have curtains to keep our guests comfortable.
Considering how little plots are, and that all houses have an upstairs, I dont think most people care about privacy. They are used to being seen by at least 5 neighbours at all times.
I ask this question about my neighbour, although not to her face as it is her business, but our houses have very big front room windows that are nearly as wide and tall as the room.
We are in a rural area and the passer-by’s are typically neighbours, although we do have people using our area as free parking for the airport.
Everyone bar my immediate neighbour has some kind of window covering, although very few people walking by actually look towards the houses, apart from when I used to keep reptiles and local children would peer through the gaps in my blinds when I was at work as they could see some of the animals in their vivs.
I took my kitchen blinds down. They were ugly, got in the way of stuff on the windowsill, gathered dust and just generally annoyed me. Yes, people occasionally walk past the window as it’s a communal garden, but I don’t really care if they see my kitchen. I suppose I could buy some nicer one that are pull down so don’t get in the way, but I doubt I’d bother to pull them down. And I’m not going to pull them down in the day which is when people actually walk past.
I’m in a first floor massionate with a very large living room window. I do have curtains but no nets (Renting and not allowed) Opposite us is houses. My living room window faces a neighbour across the roads bedroom windows who also has no nets or blinds. Barry, the homeowner of that house, loves to stare out his bedroom window on all the going ons in the street. He just stands there for ages staring. He also stares through our living room window at us lol. He will just stand and stare for a good few minutes and really we are just sat on the sofa usually doing nothing and watching television so it is not remotely interesting watching us. Me and my kid actually find it funny and joke about it. We don’t have anything to hide and is careful on our attire but after all these years we are just used to him. Overall, we do like him. Sometimes my kid for a laugh throws herself to the floor if she sees him staring and sometimes she just stands and stares back at him.
I got new windows installed, ones that are actually up to code and can be used to escape from a housefire.
I have curtains but no blinds because I need to buy some and it’s shockingly hard to justify even the small purchase when curtains do the job 99% of the time.
My walls aren’t strong enough to hold the curtain rails in! I have blinds but not curtains, I would love some curtains but every curtain pole I’ve put up has come down within 24 hours thanks to my rubbish old walls
I have curtains. I’m fairly certain the lady across the road does too. Is this what you mean? 🤣
(Landlord put 6 single curtains on the bay window. They’re a pain in the arse to open and close so I don’t bother unless having a shag on the sofa, although I’m not sure the neighbour would notice. She’s well into that computer.)
We’d just moved into a new house, and were still getting things set up. It was our first home, after renting furnished flats, and we didn’t have bedroom curtains (we had gauze, but not full curtains) yet. Stuff still in boxes everywhere.
We got a visit, one weekend, from the local church minister, not a Catholic priest, nor a vicar, but some kind of methodist I think. He asked if we wanted our windows cleaned, it was a side hustle he was doing, since church services didn’t pay too well.
I agreed, thinking it was nice to get a window cleaner sorted, and him being a church guy, obviously he wasn’t going to be robbing us.
Monday morning comes around. Our alarm went off about 7am, for my husband and I to get ready for work. And that’s when I saw the smiling face of the church guy, looking in our bedroom window with a squeegee in one hand, waving at me with the other hand. Up a ladder, since our bedroom was upstairs.
I grabbed a dressing gown and flew downstairs to give him a piece of my mind. And to fire him as our window cleaner.
My house faces the Close directly opposite. The house at the bottom of the Close has no window coverings, at all. I have a direct line of sight from my front door and from my 2 front facing bedrooms. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t spend time looking into their windows, but I wonder if they realize that they are on constant display, especially now that the nights are drawing in and their lights are on constantly from late afternoon.
When I was in rented accommodation, for whatever reason every single flat or house or bedsit or whatever never had any curtains, and rarely had curtain rails.
The landlord for one of the places convinced my housemates to go halves on blinds for the house.
After that, kinda decided I would not put anything into the house if landlords were just going to be an ass about everything, never fix anything and then try and con me out of my deposit.
In a 3 year window I moved between 5 different properties. Why the hell would I go to the effort or expense to put anything up? I think I duct taped a tablecloth over the window once. That was pretty neat.
Got my own place now and got some decent blackout curtains. It’s lovely.
I don’t exactly live on a street where loads of people walk by. I have curtains but they’re hardly ever drawn – I just genuinely don’t give a shit about anyone who may want to look in.
They’re white goods working class who have money maybe second or third generation want to show off what they have are WYSWYGS i.e Performative think posh Jeremy Kyle it’s also a good way of seeing what people get up to, it’s usually not wild parties, it’s come home from work sit in front of the TV bath bed.
I live on the top floor of the tallest building in eyeline. If someone’s managing to catch a glance they deserved it for the effort and would regret the effort very soon after!
No one can see my house from the road, let alone in through my windows. I have curtains in the front facing window of the bedroom (bungalow so all on the ground floor) because obviously delivery drivers/ gardener/ window cleaner/ guests etc can see in) but the only people who could see in the back windows are burglars and I want to spot them first! I do have curtains/ blinds on all windows minus the kitchen ones but they are mostly left open.
I have those perfect fit blinds on the french doors and since I did the last part of the fence I love keeping them lifted up so I can see my beautiful green garden – so what if I’m k-naked in my k-nitchen.
Strangely paranoid about doing it in the lounge though, I love my privacy and don’t even want people seeing in.
My neighbours across the street wrote me a very polite, if not a bit awkward, letter to inform me they could see right into my flat. They seem more uncomfortable about it than I am 😂
On white light bulb – I don’t think it is common here in London – I think people always not turn on the light lol guess most of the months from 4 turn dark and people are used to it & energy crisis etc
I used to live in a flat with nothing on the windows. It was a listed building and the landlord was iffy with us doing anything. They were huge sash windows and there were no holes where fixtures had been so I assumed it’d never had curtains or blinds. Others on the row did so I don’t know why our building didn’t. We were three floors up and just got used to it. The bathroom didn’t have a window so I got changed in there.
I have blackout curtains and blinds in my rented house. The big light rarely goes on in the living room. I have a WiFi bulb in the bedroom that is rarely set above 50% brightness. The kitchen doesn’t have any window coverings, but it’s at the back of the house and there’s no access from the street to the back.
Living room had 2 blinds; 1 blackout blind, and then a privacy blind underneath. Let’s light in, I can see out but people can’t see in. It’s a mid terrace so the front door opens into the living room so there’s a blackout curtain over the window in the door.
Bedroom has blackout curtains. There’s a bright light on a telegraph pole opposite my bedroom window. Also I don’t want to be waking up before 5am in the summer.
I live in an apartment, it’s not on the ground floor. TBH if someone has made the effort to climb the building to look in I’m gonna put on a show for them.
As a kid I never drew my curtains. If it wasn’t for my husband, I’d not bother with the upstairs ones now. I like waking up with the sun, it makes me feel much better than the shock of going from dark to light with the pull of a curtain, it’s such a violent shock to wake up to. I don’t really card about peeping toms, if they want of look in, that’s on them if they see something they shouldn’t.
I do like to he lounge ones drawn at night as I like of wreck tv with no distractions from outside.
I feel like it’s a trap- but we live in a small tucked away corner on a dead end street. Barely anyone goes that way. It is also a safe place. But as to why… curtains are bulky, and get dusty and heavy to open every day and close every night. And it’s just nice to feel like the space is more open
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I don’t worry about them, they need to worry about me.
I just moved and the flat has zero curtains which a tad strange. But from my kitchen window I can see the KFC next door and I like people watching. I’m not a ground floor flat so I’m not too worried but will be getting curtains for the bedroom.
Have you ever seen a Grand Designs house with window treatments? It’s all about form and not function.
Because such things stop us seeing out of the windows, why are you looking in windows?
More importantly, people who have white light bulbs in their living rooms, not calming warm lights. Drives me mental that. Must be lîke a prison.
I like to hang dong – perfect legal and if someone looks in, legally that is their problem not mine.
My house is up a drive on a hill so no passers by. The windows are 3m high throughout and would cost a fortune
I live in the middle of nowhere. If you want to trudge for miles across open moorland, bogs and gorse bushes in the dark to peer through my windows, I feel you have earned a peek.
It’s taken years for me to perfect my nob helicopter routine. The world deserves to see it.
I don’t have any neighbours so don’t have to worry about privacy. I don’t need curtains as there is no light outside at night to keep out, I do have curtains in the living room but that’s for decoration and they never get closed.
Our guest bedrooms all have curtains to keep our guests comfortable.
They keep out so much daylight and make the rooms so dreary.
We have roll up blinds and curtains but only use them in winter to keep it warm.
Considering how little plots are, and that all houses have an upstairs, I dont think most people care about privacy. They are used to being seen by at least 5 neighbours at all times.
I ask this question about my neighbour, although not to her face as it is her business, but our houses have very big front room windows that are nearly as wide and tall as the room.
We are in a rural area and the passer-by’s are typically neighbours, although we do have people using our area as free parking for the airport.
Everyone bar my immediate neighbour has some kind of window covering, although very few people walking by actually look towards the houses, apart from when I used to keep reptiles and local children would peer through the gaps in my blinds when I was at work as they could see some of the animals in their vivs.
I could NEVER. I want to be ENVELOPED at all times.
I have blinds at the back of my house but never close them. My house is high up and backs onto woods. You could only see in if you were up a tree.
I am renovating. I have them on the two bedrooms we use. I have them on the living room but thats it.
Because i’m a psychopath and there are very few socially acceptable ways for me to advertise it.
It’s almost like people have never watched You (the series. Not the OP!)
He only stalked people without net curtains. Live and learn, people! Live and learn!
Because I had the room decorated a month ago and I have ADHD. They’ll be up again some time before 2030. Probably.
I don’t like feeling ‘shut in’, if I can’t see the threat coming i can’t protect myself.
I took my kitchen blinds down. They were ugly, got in the way of stuff on the windowsill, gathered dust and just generally annoyed me. Yes, people occasionally walk past the window as it’s a communal garden, but I don’t really care if they see my kitchen. I suppose I could buy some nicer one that are pull down so don’t get in the way, but I doubt I’d bother to pull them down. And I’m not going to pull them down in the day which is when people actually walk past.
I like people watching. Blinds would block my view.
I’m in a first floor massionate with a very large living room window. I do have curtains but no nets (Renting and not allowed) Opposite us is houses. My living room window faces a neighbour across the roads bedroom windows who also has no nets or blinds. Barry, the homeowner of that house, loves to stare out his bedroom window on all the going ons in the street. He just stands there for ages staring. He also stares through our living room window at us lol. He will just stand and stare for a good few minutes and really we are just sat on the sofa usually doing nothing and watching television so it is not remotely interesting watching us. Me and my kid actually find it funny and joke about it. We don’t have anything to hide and is careful on our attire but after all these years we are just used to him. Overall, we do like him. Sometimes my kid for a laugh throws herself to the floor if she sees him staring and sometimes she just stands and stares back at him.
I have better things to worry about
I live on the fifth floor with no buildings in my immediate area.
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I ask myself this everyday!
In a world where people have cameras and are generally pretty fucked up, you’re happy to have them glare into your home?
We were going to get some, but it was simpler just to sue Tate Modern when the common people started looking in.
I have blinds and curtains.
I got new windows installed, ones that are actually up to code and can be used to escape from a housefire.
I have curtains but no blinds because I need to buy some and it’s shockingly hard to justify even the small purchase when curtains do the job 99% of the time.
I’m in a first floor flat, and only overlooked by the job centre. I’m also not especially shy about my tits.
I will avoid wandering around topless during office hours. But other than that I don’t really care.
My walls aren’t strong enough to hold the curtain rails in! I have blinds but not curtains, I would love some curtains but every curtain pole I’ve put up has come down within 24 hours thanks to my rubbish old walls
Honest answer: can’t afford them
I have curtains. I’m fairly certain the lady across the road does too. Is this what you mean? 🤣
(Landlord put 6 single curtains on the bay window. They’re a pain in the arse to open and close so I don’t bother unless having a shag on the sofa, although I’m not sure the neighbour would notice. She’s well into that computer.)
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We’d just moved into a new house, and were still getting things set up. It was our first home, after renting furnished flats, and we didn’t have bedroom curtains (we had gauze, but not full curtains) yet. Stuff still in boxes everywhere.
We got a visit, one weekend, from the local church minister, not a Catholic priest, nor a vicar, but some kind of methodist I think. He asked if we wanted our windows cleaned, it was a side hustle he was doing, since church services didn’t pay too well.
I agreed, thinking it was nice to get a window cleaner sorted, and him being a church guy, obviously he wasn’t going to be robbing us.
Monday morning comes around. Our alarm went off about 7am, for my husband and I to get ready for work. And that’s when I saw the smiling face of the church guy, looking in our bedroom window with a squeegee in one hand, waving at me with the other hand. Up a ladder, since our bedroom was upstairs.
I grabbed a dressing gown and flew downstairs to give him a piece of my mind. And to fire him as our window cleaner.
Because I’m in prison 😁😁😁
Flashers
No curtains or blinds because my damn cats will destroy them. The worst thing that could happen is I bore a peeping Tom to death
I don’t like sleeping in a room where I can’t see the sky when I wake up
My house faces the Close directly opposite. The house at the bottom of the Close has no window coverings, at all. I have a direct line of sight from my front door and from my 2 front facing bedrooms. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t spend time looking into their windows, but I wonder if they realize that they are on constant display, especially now that the nights are drawing in and their lights are on constantly from late afternoon.
When I was in rented accommodation, for whatever reason every single flat or house or bedsit or whatever never had any curtains, and rarely had curtain rails.
The landlord for one of the places convinced my housemates to go halves on blinds for the house.
After that, kinda decided I would not put anything into the house if landlords were just going to be an ass about everything, never fix anything and then try and con me out of my deposit.
In a 3 year window I moved between 5 different properties. Why the hell would I go to the effort or expense to put anything up? I think I duct taped a tablecloth over the window once. That was pretty neat.
Got my own place now and got some decent blackout curtains. It’s lovely.
I don’t exactly live on a street where loads of people walk by. I have curtains but they’re hardly ever drawn – I just genuinely don’t give a shit about anyone who may want to look in.
I want people to watch
I don’t have them on the back of the house because I don’t really care if my neighbours see me in the kitchen, dining or office rooms.
idk why they dont just buy curtains
I was poor and the towel was wet
Someone’s got to be the naked neighbour, why not the fat ginger guy?
Rich people don’t use curtains / nettings, trust me look at all normal houses then look at £1m houses and none of them will have nettings
Your ma has towels for curtains, I’ve seen it
You don’t need to say “UK folks”, when you’re posting on AskUK. There shouldn’t be anyone else answering…
They are Dutch
They’re white goods working class who have money maybe second or third generation want to show off what they have are WYSWYGS i.e Performative think posh Jeremy Kyle it’s also a good way of seeing what people get up to, it’s usually not wild parties, it’s come home from work sit in front of the TV bath bed.
I live on the top floor of the tallest building in eyeline. If someone’s managing to catch a glance they deserved it for the effort and would regret the effort very soon after!
No one can see my house from the road, let alone in through my windows. I have curtains in the front facing window of the bedroom (bungalow so all on the ground floor) because obviously delivery drivers/ gardener/ window cleaner/ guests etc can see in) but the only people who could see in the back windows are burglars and I want to spot them first! I do have curtains/ blinds on all windows minus the kitchen ones but they are mostly left open.
I live in the countryside where there’s a beautiful view and not many people to look in. And they’re bloody expensive
I have those perfect fit blinds on the french doors and since I did the last part of the fence I love keeping them lifted up so I can see my beautiful green garden – so what if I’m k-naked in my k-nitchen.
Strangely paranoid about doing it in the lounge though, I love my privacy and don’t even want people seeing in.
People choose to not have curtains or blinds?
We have miles of fields behind the house. There isnt a window covering on the bathroom, 2 back bedrooms, family room or kitchen windows.
The only windows that have a blind are the front lounge and one of the front bedrooms because they get the sun.
My neighbours across the street wrote me a very polite, if not a bit awkward, letter to inform me they could see right into my flat. They seem more uncomfortable about it than I am 😂
Because my cat decided the curtain rail shouldn’t be attached any more and I haven’t got round to fixing it
I once visited a friend in his Croydon sharehouse and his bedroom “curtain” was a towel he had sellotaped to the window frame.
Apparently the landlord didn’t want to install a curtain rail and didn’t allow my friend to install one himself.
On white light bulb – I don’t think it is common here in London – I think people always not turn on the light lol guess most of the months from 4 turn dark and people are used to it & energy crisis etc
My windows don’t face the street and have frosted glass, so no need for it really. I prefer waking up to light coming into the room as well.
I used to live in a flat with nothing on the windows. It was a listed building and the landlord was iffy with us doing anything. They were huge sash windows and there were no holes where fixtures had been so I assumed it’d never had curtains or blinds. Others on the row did so I don’t know why our building didn’t. We were three floors up and just got used to it. The bathroom didn’t have a window so I got changed in there.
I have blackout curtains and blinds in my rented house. The big light rarely goes on in the living room. I have a WiFi bulb in the bedroom that is rarely set above 50% brightness. The kitchen doesn’t have any window coverings, but it’s at the back of the house and there’s no access from the street to the back.
Living room had 2 blinds; 1 blackout blind, and then a privacy blind underneath. Let’s light in, I can see out but people can’t see in. It’s a mid terrace so the front door opens into the living room so there’s a blackout curtain over the window in the door.
Bedroom has blackout curtains. There’s a bright light on a telegraph pole opposite my bedroom window. Also I don’t want to be waking up before 5am in the summer.
I live in an apartment, it’s not on the ground floor. TBH if someone has made the effort to climb the building to look in I’m gonna put on a show for them.
Your point being🤔🙄
As a kid I never drew my curtains. If it wasn’t for my husband, I’d not bother with the upstairs ones now. I like waking up with the sun, it makes me feel much better than the shock of going from dark to light with the pull of a curtain, it’s such a violent shock to wake up to. I don’t really card about peeping toms, if they want of look in, that’s on them if they see something they shouldn’t.
I do like to he lounge ones drawn at night as I like of wreck tv with no distractions from outside.
I feel like it’s a trap- but we live in a small tucked away corner on a dead end street. Barely anyone goes that way. It is also a safe place. But as to why… curtains are bulky, and get dusty and heavy to open every day and close every night. And it’s just nice to feel like the space is more open