Your Partner in Privacy: Blinds or Curtains?
Window blinds and curtains are the easiest answers to the various ways to protecting yourself from intruding eyes and stalkers who like to peer in when provided with open visual access. The old vertical and horizontal window blinds are more often chosen due to their easy maintenance and decorative properties rather than with safety in mind. The popularity of blinds come from their visual appeal, light control and insulation capabilities as they can be tilted at desirable angles to allow limited amount of sun light to flood in.
All that it takes to install the blinds in place is a little manpower. The effort required to clean them is even lesser – all they need is a rough swipe across their dusty blades. However, on the security front, window blinds are far less protective than net curtains.
Why?
When blinds are left open halfway or fully, they yield a sufficient outline of what your home or office possesses. Remember, burglars always survey houses before striking, and they only strike at houses that they know have stuff they think is worth nicking. Prevention is better than cure, and you would want to wean them away from targeting your place by preventing them from looking in.
Though the most common set of net curtains are the sparkling white type, net curtains possess beautifully coloured light weight drapes layered over one another. So you can be sure to find a set of net curtains that go with the décor in your office or house.
Translucent fabrics and room darkening shade fabrics reduce the flooding of sun light in your room and at the same time completely darken over making it impossible to see what’s going on inside. You on the other hand, can look outside and keep tabs on what’s happening outside your house.
They also have an edge over blinds in the looks department, woven into patterns and contours in vibrant shades giving a delicate touch to it. Net curtains are also a nice way to change the look of your house once in awhile. This is not quite the case with window blinds. Window blinds are usually quite drab and a set of net curtains can change the mood of your rooms in ways you can only imagine!
Surely curtains provide better privacy prospects than blinds which are vulnerable to intrusion unless fully closed shut and tight! With increasing number of stalkers, some of them may even go to the extent of buying binoculars to watch their victim’s activities and in such cases, blinds offer negligible protection and shielding unless they are fully closed, whereas curtains give you the advantage of blocking their view effectively. Stay safe, and live colourful!