Finding Privacy Without Blinds

Lots of things change when you move to the city. One thing we still haven't gotten used to: 

People are always watching...

That sounds creepy. Ha! But seriously. We get texts all the time from friends who drove by the house and saw us out on the front porch, or commented on Caroline playing in the yard, or noted the progress made on the latest exterior project we had going. - We're country folk: there were no curtains or blinds on our windows at Windy Poplars, and we liked it that way.

BUT, things have changed a bit- and privacy is a good thing from time to time. ;-) While we're still living with the slowly dry-rotting mini blinds that came with the house for the most part, there was one situation that needed some attention right away: the master bath.

We have two full-sized windows in there, one of which is behind the bathtub (meaning you have to climb into the tub to open or close the blinds). There was easy viewing into our glass shower from the parking lot behind us, and also from the front apartment lawn. Many a day we'd forget to close the blinds before we hopped in, and then, dripping wet, we'd frantically grab a towel and slip and slide our way to the windows to stop the free peep show. 

Our memory was not getting better, and this was particularly problematic at night, as you can well imagine! Also: opening and closing the behind-the-tub window with regularity was just a pain - and the windows afforded so much light, we certainly didn't want to keep the blinds permanently closed. 

Enter: temp film.

This stuff is so great! It comes in lots of pattern options from Lowes. You just cut it to fit, use a very mild soap solution to apply, and voila! Privacy! And if you want to try a different solution (or a different pattern) in the future, it easily comes off - there's no adhesive used. A package was $30ish, and we had more than enough for our two windows.

Here is the view before:

And from the shower:

Aaaaand after:

We just went with a bubbly glass texture - we thought it went with the age of the house best- instead of more modern swirls, grass, or the like. - Complete privacy, yet blocks zero light, and nothing for us to remember to close before we shower!

WIN!