Net Curtains

cormie

I really don't understand why anybody would want these in their house. Sure, they give a bit of privacy and let you nose out at the neighbours without getting caught, but they are the most horrible things ever. Especially on days like today when the windows could be wide open with wind shuffling through your house and the sun beaming in. The thing is, most houses seem to have them. I've always sworn, even since I was about 6 years old, that I'd never have them in my house. So who here is guilty of this interior decorating crime and why... why oh why?:eek:

Ruu_Old

Our house has them last I saw, horrible looking yokes. They get all yellow from my Dad smoking, eugh. I don't know why they are still up there, must be about 50 years old. :eek:

projectmayhem

we have them and they're quite nice. not so "netty" though, i will admit. but they do add a lot of privacy, as well as giving the illusion that there's more light coming in then there really is (well our front room is huge and without the white net curtains the sun doesn't really reach the back wall)

kizzyr

Yeah, I hate them too. My mum has them all over her house and although they couldn't be whiter (I'm sure they are too scared of her to even consider yellowing:D ) I have always detested them. In my own house I have Holland blinds on the bedroom windows, sitting room and front door and wooden Venetian blinds in the kitchen and bathrooms.

Adam

Yeah, cant stand the things. We used to have them about 10 years ago, but thought the reason we didn't after that was because they had gone out of fashion??

Though it's really more of an urban trend I've noticed, with more traffic on the footpath going past your house the extra bit of privacy is needed, they're not so often sighted in this fine county.

cournioni

I detest them.

Blinds = the only job.

connundrum

I wish I could afford nets.. poor me

Black Swan

Each to their own.

phantom_lord

I've only seen old grannys with them.

Going Demented

I hate the damn things. They are disgusting.

Myself and my boyfriend moved into a flat. It was the second story and had curtains and there was no need for anything else. Well his mother decided to get the key one day and surprise us, with net all over the place (and not even right in front of the window, bay windows, back at the start of the bay thingy). Didn't want to hurt her feelings so left it off. Hated the flat anyway and didn't really care.

Moved into a new house 2 months later. No blinds up but again there was no hurry. Wasn't anyone going to be looking in or anything. Ok so we were getting things bit by bit for the house. One evening she pops up and tells us she has more spare net in her house. She would come down the following day and put it up. Again she was gonna put it hanging from the start of the bay window. At this stage i hate to tell her <<name>> i'm sorry but i can't stand netting and i know you have it in your house and i don't mean to be offensive but this is MY house and i won't be having netting. Then i made the other half get the key back off her. Why he gave her a key to the house in the first place i dunno.

But yeah netting is disgusting.

phantom_lord

Going Demented wrote:

Why he gave her a key to the house in the first place i dunno.

So she could decorate, of course.

Jello

Yeah I don't like 'em, they're like mosquito nets or something.

Going Demented

phantom_lord wrote:

So she could decorate, of course.

If that's what decorating is. I have some of the weirdest "lamps" and stuff you could imagine. (Even came home at christmas and she had put up a tree and decorations all over the ceiling :rolleyes: ) Enough decorating for me now. Ah what harm, means well so put up with somethings but a lot easier now when she hasn't a key. Still no blinds up so the netting suggestion might be brought up again.

Sam Vimes

i like net curtains. they have the bad point in that they look minging but they add privacy. for me that's a net gain...........i'll get my coat



my neighbours don't have curtains in their living room. instead they have blinds that they never put down. i have to look at them watching their tv like fish in an aquarium every time i walk past.


and i like to walk around my house in a state of clothedness that i wouldn't like my neighbours to see

kizzyr

Going Demented wrote:

Then i made the other half get the key back off her. Why he gave her a key to the house in the first place i dunno.
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Ah yes the old spare key problem. Somehow when I moved into my house my parents ended up with one. One Saturday morning my Dad called up to give me some plants for the garden but thought it would be fine to just let himself in............only thing is he didn't stop there he (for some unfathomable reason) decided to come on up to my bedroom........he walked in on myself and my boyfriend doin' the deed. He's never used the key again:D

starman100

I was outside Buckingham Palace last weekend...........

And I could SWEAR that HM had ye auld net curtains hanging!

Looked very grotty to tell you the truth

Ruu_Old

starman100 wrote:

I was outside Buckingham Palace last weekend...........

And I could SWEAR that HM had ye auld net curtains hanging!

Looked very grotty to tell you the truth

Noticed that the last time I was there too, filthy they were and I was looking from outside the gates.:) It was when herself was away in Scotland I think.

bug

they are mouldy,
but its the frilly doylee style that are utterly mouldy. A throw off from the 1940's early fiftys.

If they were just plain, with none of the frills and no holes...

They serve to let light in to houses that wouldnt suit other types of blind, ie houses with small windows that need optimum light or houses overshadowed by trees etc...

But yeah, mouldy. Plain...blank is the way to go if light needs to be optimised.

nah_biy!

We had them, bloody eyesore. We now have the glorigied pull down ones wth the string, but my mom has to always push home decoration to the next level, so they're eh, great

Conar

I don't know why exactly but I hate net curtains so much that I die a little inside every time I see them!

Ruu_Old

Thats it, when I get home, I'll set alight to the ones in the living room!:mad:

cormie

That's the thing... pretty much every poster here says they hate them. Yet I still see them on most houses around the place.

Is there some psycological/emotional effect these have on people? They hate them yet they feel they must have them. This goes deeper, much deeper.

tallus

I dont mind them, had blinds for years and they fell apart.

Dave!

We had them for years, and only last year my mam got rid of them and put roller blinds in all the rooms. I was appalled, because there's this house on my road that has blinds, and every time ya pass by, you can see everybody in the room, what they're doin, what they're wearing, what they're watching on TV...!!!

No privacy!!!

Tar.Aldarion

They are great for spying, especially as the girls(3) across the road like to remove their clothes by their windows at night.

Dyr

I was once informed we were called the "net curtain irish" in the states for years..

I dont mind em, they're cheap, easy and cover a thousand sins

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Cant believe im replying to a post about net curtains.... oh god im bored!


But yes i have net curtains and im not sorry!

xzanti

Venetians ftw

cormie

but do you pull the blinds up or twist them to let in the light? Twisting to let in the light is nearly just as bad as net curtains:p

brown*eyed*girl

This thread has made me laugh . We used to have them years ago but not many people have them anymore. I have venetian blinds in my house. Pine on front two windows & kitchen, plus lilac in daughter's bedroom & chrome in the bathroom. I really like them but thinking of changing the front ones to white venetians as getting a bit tired of the pine.

Have to say net curtains are great for privacy & really plain snow white ones aren't too bad especially on small townhouses with no gardens where you'd really need the privacy. Thanfully I have a front garden because I'd go mad if my sitting room window was on the main footpath. That must be a right pain.

Strangely enough my main sitting room has no windows . I have a front small sitting room, then the main sitting room, then the kitchen with a bathroom to the side. Some people would hate it but its so private & cosy. I have great light coming from my kitchen and all the doors downstairs (besides the bathroom) have stained glass they let in lots of light but are private too.

bonkey

We have them in one room. The windows start about 1' from ground level and run up to the ceiling.

On long, narrow windows like this, I think it can work.

jc

cormie

brown eyed, you'd be able to knock out part of the wall to fit in windows if you wanted to later on I'm sure:)

brown*eyed*girl

cormie wrote:

brown eyed, you'd be able to knock out part of the wall to fit in windows if you wanted to later on I'm sure:)

I know I have that option but I like having the front sitting room as its handy. Also during the day I just leave the kitchen door open and the kitchen window lights up the kitchen & sitting room & the kitchen is v big so its like one big room & at night time then its just cosy when you close the door. The sitting room also has a mirror thats in an alcove in the wall which gives the effect of a window. The house is around 60+ years old and its crazy the way they made houses then. As far as I know my current bathroom was the kitchen as its very big & the current kitchen is an extension. Sorry for going off topic.

iguana

My house has a giant bay window in the front room and my front garden is only about 2ft wide. There is no way on earth I'd be wondering around without something to add privacy. Luckily the house was done up by the owners before our vendors who were two gay men with great taste, so I have three voile panels that stretch across the windows from the bottom to the bar where it opens.

The front bedroom which has 4 windows does have nets, and as soon as I get round to doing it up I'm going to make panels for those windows as well. But the room has been half painted for the last 6 weeks so the curtains aren't a priority.

Eventually I plan to get the horrible uPvc windows removed and have double glazed sashes put in. When I do that I'm going to make transparent roller blinds that work from the bottom up. So the will go from the bottom to the sash and leave the top panel clear.

Say what you like about net curtains, but the look a damn site better than uPvc windows and they are only a tiny fraction of the cost to put in or replace.

TequilaMockingBird

Today I will proudly walk to the drapers and collect my lovely plain white nets with lead weights (swanky!!!), that I have been anxiously waiting for. The call came today that the nets are finally made!!! Hurrah for nets!!! Down with blinds!!!

fozzle

My mother brought me up to hate net curtains with a firey passion, god bless that woman, she hates them sooo much. I can understand them in houses with windows on the footpath but that's all. In daylight passers by can't see into my house and when it's dark and we turn the lights on inside we just close the curtains. It's really not that difficult!

simu

They scream old biddy that put them up in some long-forgotten decade and hasn't redecorated since tbh. I really hate when you find dead flies behind them. Urgh!

:|

I was indifferent towards them until a stayed in a mobile home with a huge front window and no net curtains that faced many other mobiles, everyone who walked by had a right gawk at us! it was quite embarrassing!