Treehouse staring into our living room

fluffnutter

Person_one wrote: »

Some people really need to live in isolated farmhouses or get over themselves.

Some people need to get a sense of humour. You can be unattractively pompous at times.

patchwork_cat

Going on from London Surrey's remark. Call around and say to teh parents, we are naturists and like to walk around our house naked, now we don't care if the kids see us, but you might!

What about putting up some muslin curtains or some organza as an alternative, particularly on a track and then draw them if the kids bother you.

Person_one

fluffnutter wrote: »

Some people need to get a sense of humour. You can be unattractively pompous at times.

Meh, it wasn't particularly funny and I suspect there was a fair bit of truth in it.

Desperado99

I do get why the OP is peeved by it....... but that's because we had a neighbour with a trampoline, except the child used it to climb onto the fence to sit and stare at us. When I eventually told her to stop staring into our garden (after a year of it) we were graced with a rock through our window.

Anyway, I would ask (nicely) if the treehouse window could have a bit of net curtain up......... no harm in asking.

lostinrates

Person_one wrote: »

Some people really need to live in isolated farmhouses or get over themselves.

I got an isolated farmhouse, doesn't stop tractors gping past though.

We are naturists, and fundamentally beyond that i enjoy my privacy and frankly, have no desire to impose on others privacy either. Imo planning things like where tree houses go and what you plant in your garden for privacy pruposes are part of ensuring my comfort and my neighbours. This is a huge part of why for me a leylandi hedge here was removed. Althugh its frustrating for the few years we are without privacy there, long term we will have a more beutiful screen that is private but allows us to garden, unlike those brutes which make gardening at their feet impossible.

I wonder whether my polite and considerate like of privacy is more or as offensive and necessary to get over as other potential causes of neighbourhood discomfort?

McKneff

Trouble too with walking round naked in the garden, the neighbours might charge admission to the treehouse to all the other neighbours. lol

warehouse

I think it's wrong to build anything overlooking a neighbour without the common decency to talk first. I'm currently building something similar for my kids and my very first thought when designing it was NOT to overlook any neighbours. I've planted bushes, shaped other trees to hide it etc, but then I have been planning it for a year or so.

It's called having a bit of respect.

Person_one

warehouse wrote: »

I think it's wrong to build anything overlooking a neighbour without the common decency to talk first. I'm currently building something similar for my kids and my very first thought when designing it was NOT to overlook any neighbours. I've planted bushes, shaped other trees to hide it etc, but then I have been planning it for a year or so.

It's called having a bit of respect.

It is 45 feet away from their house, that's a fair distance, and its completely on their land.

I think its nice that they've made the effort to build a treehouse rather than expecting them to play on an Xbox or whatever all summer.

The OP is just borrowing trouble, if the kids start 'spying' or causing any other problems then that's the time to deal with it. It might not be a problem at all.

londonsurrey

McKneff wrote: »

Trouble too with walking round naked in the garden, the neighbours might charge admission to the treehouse to all the other neighbours. lol

But just consider, no tan lines.

aliasojo

londonsurrey wrote: »

But just consider, no tan lines.

Be realistic will you? It's the UK, there will likely be no tan never mind no tan lines.