Privacy curtains or film?

Buster_Danog

To keep people across the street from looking in I need to find either net curtains that let light in or some kind of window film. I have a balcony with glass panelling and my front room window is full length glass.

So I think the curtains would be easier but I would consider the window film for the balcony if it lets light in. I need to cover two separate areas on the balcony of about 4ft by 5ft, and another area of 6ft by 5ft.

Any recommendations of online curtain places to buy both a rail and curtains would be helpful.

Tosca3

Net curtains not really my thing, but bought some for my Dad as he has floor to ceiling windows. I just bought the really plain ones called Sue from John Aird on Amazon, they were great for the price but won't give complete privacy if you have all the lights on.

HTH

luvchocolate

Hi I live on a very busy main road and have what I can only describe as "strings" they come in door size panels in different lengths.
You can not see from the outside but let in light and look really nice.
Mine came from Tonys Textiles but when my son saw them he ordered them for all his windows online.

Norman_Castle

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Home-Furniture-DIY-/11700/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=white+window+film

Snakey

Do you need to cover the entire window? It will affect the amount of light that comes in. How about some screening plants on the balcony, high enough to block the neighbours' view of your flat but no higher (presumably you don't care if they can see your coving).

Vectis

We used to have a neighbour who, seemingly, used to enjoy looking through our windows. Opaque film on some of the windows stopped him and still let in light.

lstar337

The films are awful, and usually ruin the window.

Buster_Danog

Snakey wrote: »

Do you need to cover the entire window? It will affect the amount of light that comes in. How about some screening plants on the balcony, high enough to block the neighbours' view of your flat but no higher (presumably you don't care if they can see your coving).

I just need to cover the area I gave above - about 4ft by 5ft, and another area of 6ft by 5ft on the balcony. I think there are films that let light through??

How do these films destroy the window. Are they difficult to apply or remove?

As for the screening plant. They are expensive I believe, and the real ones cause a mess. The best stuff I seen was artificial fencing on ebay, but even that is a little bit see through.

lstar337

Sergeant_Troy wrote: »

I just need to cover the area I gave above - about 4ft by 5ft, and another area of 6ft by 5ft on the balcony. I think there are films that let light through??

How do these films destroy the window. Are they difficult to apply or remove?

As for the screening plant. They are expensive I believe, and the real ones cause a mess. The best stuff I seen was artificial fencing on ebay, but even that is a little bit see through.

It tends to get tatty very quickly, and when you want to remove it, you'll find you cant! Not without leaving little bits of it everywhere anyway.

jellybeans_2

There are two different types of window film that you can get, ones that are sticky and ones that cling to the window due to static and a little bit of water. I have used and removed the static cling ones with no problem several times and they still look good. Maybe it is the sticky back plastic type that give problems removing?

I_have_spoken

the sticky back plastic type that give problems removing

I've used the frosted sticky type in a conservatory to hide the 'view' of the refuse bins. They do leave a gunk when peeled off which needs petrol/WD40 to dissolve it.