curtains open or closed?

just something I was thinking about earlier. what do you do with your windows and such as far as curtains blinds whatever.
mine are always closed. there are curtains on top of blinds. and the curtains are the dark light-blocking ones
they only get opened when my parents come to visit because my mom makes a stink about there being no light in the house.

I just really like my privacy and it makes me feel more secure.

I should add that I do open the verticals on the sliding glass door in our kitchen as well as our kitchen blinds, but those face the back and if I don't open the verticals and slide them to the side my kids will tear them up and pull on them. but even today I closed them way before it was very dark out.

just curious if anyone can relate, yay or nay

My curtains are down/pulled shut. I've a couple of rooms that are rather sheer that let light in.

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I have horizontal mini blinds on all my windows. They stay open except when the sun is too bright coming in a particular window. Then I lower the blind to cut the light. I also have dark curtains in my bedroom. I lower the blinds and close the curtains if I am going to sleep in in the morning because the bright light wakes me. The fact that I live in the boonies, way back off the road has a major influence on this. The only ones around who could peek in my windows are birds and butterflies.

When I stay at my Mom's house, which is in an over 55 community with houses real close to each other, I close the blinds at dark so people can not see in the house. I also have to remind myself to close them during the day if I'm wondering around the house not wearing much.

I absolutely love the dark and have those thick fabric vertical blinds (or shades?). They were actually on the windows when I bought the house and kept them. When I was a teen and lived at home I nailed dark sheets over my windows. Yea my dad wasn't thrilled. But I've ways had insomnia along with my MI so there would be times when i wouldn't fall asleep till sun light so I had to have it dark during the day. So my blinds are always closed. However in my living room on my sliding glass door, I keep them open for my cockatoo who's cage is in there.



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My are always shut, with sheets and blankets on top of them, to make it as dark as possible. I always worked 3rd shift, so everything in the bedroom has stayed the same. There is a string tied to the pull chain of the ceiling fan, if I want the light on.

Open during the day, but I have net curtaining so no-one can see in. And closed at night. I don't have a curtain or blind in the bathroom, but it faces the enclosed back yard and is private. So I have never bothered. And there's nothing in the kitchen (which is also relatively private). I love a sunny and light kitchen. But I would like to install a drop down blind of sorts, sometimes just makes me feel safer.

I'm going through the process of washing all the curtains. A project way overdue and ideal time to do it as it is still summer and they dry quickly on the line.

I LOVE the sun and now that am out in the boonies with nothing but the critters to entertain or offend depending on how you see it , the blinds and curtains are always open, except in the bedroom. I appreciate a really dark bedroom, especially working nights now as sleeping in in the morning and blocking out the light is an imperative.

However, when I lived in the city, I was much more aware of my privacy and for security. My blinds would stay at an angle during the day to let some light in but block out prying eyes or had lighter curtains for during the day to let some light in to do the same thing. I would close both blinds and heavy curtains at night. I started to feel claustrophobic and is part of the reason why I moved.

I have drapes - which are always pulled open.

I need the light.

I used to live in a really private house with no way of people looking in at me. Now I am in a house were I am surrounded by houses with windows all over looking me. I see people walk by on the other side of the road staring rudely into my kitchen. So I have to have nets and curtains shut at all time to keep them from looking at me. I don't like it because I am stuck in bed a lot of the time and my world seems to be shrinking

We have blinds. I love them to be open during the day because I love the sunlight.
At night they are shut when I know people can see in.
The sliding doors and windows in the back of the house all face the bay so all
winter long there is little chance of anyone being out there but in the summer
when all the boats are out there I am more aware of night time privacy.

My bedroom and living room windows have light-blocking curtains over blinds. I usually leave both closed in the bedroom, because I'm never in there during the day so there's no need to open them. On weekends, I open the curtains in the living room when I get up and leave them open until it starts getting dark. I keep the blinds partially closed so it's harder to see in from outside, but I need the light to come in during the day, otherwise I can never wake up and feel even mroe depressed.

My bedroom windows are covered with additional think comforters in pretty colors and are never open.
During depressing times or paranoid times my other Windows, the blinds are always down and firmly closed. Although I have no neighbors facing me I shut the blinds before twighlight so no one can see in. The blinds also have a sheer covering that makes it hard to see in. There's trees in front of the Windows too, so between the trees and the sheers it's pretty unlikely that anyone can see it....but still

I live in a rural area too though there are quite a few cars drive by during the day and night. and the living room faces the road. i just feel like it's nobody's business to see in to what we are doing in the living room and kitchen, what shows are on the tv. I'm sure no one cares but it bothers me if the occasional person driving by can see in.

I've always felt the same. It's nice now to have the blind/curtain combo so that it's not easy to see in when the curtains are open, but my parents have a huge bay window in their living room with just blinds on it. I hated coming home late when they'd go out of town with the blinds still open. I always closed them while watching tv at night, because people who drove by could see through the windows easily. It really bugs me.

I love the natural light and keep most of the blinds open in the house to let it in. But in my room, I have thick drapes that keep the room warm and barely let any light in. Since I've been in a depression for weeks, they've remained closed. But I opened them for the first time today!

Cheap, ugly, plastic, horizantal, mini-blinds with fairly attractive, custom-fit, black-out curtains that are always closed, never open.

I shun the sun.

I know that I should be getting as much sun as possible, that both my body and mind would thrive in sunlight and that my legs would grow back and that I would look 30 years younger and that my sex organs would double in size, that my intellect would double, too, and my wit and charm would quadruple while gasoline prices would fall until leveling off at 22.9￠ per gallon.

Getting sun would not only be good for me, it would be good for the Nation and not only good for the Nation and the Planet and the Solar System but the entirety of the Universe, known and beyond the abstract cedar fence that I like to call the Glen Clambell barriers. Know what I mean? Turtlenecks and cravats are just fine but no shameful dickies. No Fantasy Island storefronts.

I feel like I'm wigging out. Visiting new mindscapes and feeling frightened that I've been too cheap to purchase the good scenarios and that these 'cheap tricks' are going to turn on me and I'll pass out and die. I've already passed out twice today.

I have already passed out today - twice. I have passed out twice. Because of sudden drops in my blood pressure when sitting up. I've answered the question, I think. I sleep with my full black out currents closed. And all lights off.

I'm new, so I don't know what to do but read/answer. I open my blinds when I get up to lift my mood. If they are down, that automatically means "don't bother me, I'm in a lousy mood". I sent you a thanks for your beautiful butterfly and the quotes you list. They lifted my heart. I have/love critters too.

You've done more than I knew how/what to do in my my first month here! I suppose that's one reason I always keep my curtains drawn – "don't bother me, I'm in a lousy mood."

I spend far too much time here reading other's morbid thoughts and beginning a response that I will never spend.

Come into the light...

I wish I could afford to get electrochromic glass through the whole house.....

I keep my blinds and curtains drawn when I'm sad or ill or it's night. How I feel about light and sunshine depends what mood I'm in.....

I have no curtains, just blinds. I keep them closed most of the time.

i like to keep my curtains open, apart from if it's really sunny outside and then they are closed.

open though is what i prefer

Closed, still, most days....except in the kitchen, where I spend most of my working time.

I live in the forest, but I still keep the ones facing the driveway closed tightly. Especially if I'm in the kitchen doing something. I'm paranoid like that. The ones on the side or facing the forest, I keep open during the day if I need light or air. At night they are all shut and closed.