I guess I posted into outerspace - can't find the post. I went on about shoji screens... the idea being that you have a foldable or slideable grid with - usually - rice paper or ricepaperlooking plastic. Anyway, translucent material within the grid, which, as noted, slides or folds. These might be five or six feet height or even 4' - 6"... penis or boob hiding height.
Above that, your regular glass and regular sky. A mobile situation.
Re Dag's curtains, sorry Dag, they look see through to me... maybe they aren't in reality.
it's unfortunate, kicky, but it seems there are a lot of people who disagree with each other here on this site and who dare to voice it. if you post a thread, albeit personal, you gotta expect that.
in any case, i don't know how the building being an office would make a difference. other then that there would be people during the day (while there is light outside, which is what you're seemingly concerned about) all the time, and they would be gone in the evening, when it doesn't matter, cause you can just pull down the blinds... it seems to me that would only be worse. shrug, i guess i just cannot feel your pain. i live in a similar situation and it has not been an issue at all. it's the city, that's where i CHOOSE to live. there are downsides to most everything and that's one of them.
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Re Dag's curtains, sorry Dag, they look see through to me... maybe they aren't in reality.
not from outside. well, unless you stare intently into my window for hours - then you can see a blurry me moving about. if anyone cares to waste their time that way, all i can say is- be my guest...
dagmaraka wrote:it's unfortunate, kicky, but it seems there are a lot of people who disagree with each other here on this site and who dare to voice it. if you post a thread, albeit personal, you gotta expect that.
Huh? When did I say I don't expect that?
Great then, dag.
Me, mostly I've not worried about it all, living cheek to jowl in Venice, CA. I was never worried about our teeny back yard, and the front yard had enough leaves that if anybody wanted to peer, well, hell, they could (and we lived across the street from a grade school, specifically across from the kindergarden). But the side windows... we were eight feet from an interestingly rigid older couple and on the other side, from a maniacal fourteen year old boy.
On the side of the maniacal one, we had drapes up all the time; on the side of the older couple, when I was walzing around naked I'd avoid hovering right in front of the windows at night.
Mostly I hate curtains, drapes, shojis, levalors, old fashioned venetian blinds, all of it. All I remain liking are the hefty shutters of italy, but then you'd guess that from me.
As an intermediate, I can see contriving neat trifold screens - in fact I can imagine starting a company doing that. Lots of ideas...
We could call it f'king screens, you assh..les.
Or maybe not.
I'm only half kidding. I've been thinking of painting screens as a way to make a living, with my own work of course. Sort of nouveau tryptych, or polyptych.
Kicky's problemo, though, is he doesn't have four sides of a place with daylight. To me, kicky, you need to feature looking UP and screen the rest.
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Kicky, how's about applying reflective "mirror" plastic film to your windows....
We have that on our ground floor windows at my office. Working with crims (including a fair number of burglars) in and out of the building all day, we didn't want them seeing all of our nice shiny new computers, etc.
A quick trip to the DIY store, an hour or two of peeling and sticking and..hey presto. It's the same principle as those mirror sunglasses.
Ding a ling!!!! that makes sense, Ellpus..
although of course it changes the quality of the light. Hmmm, maybe mirror whoo hah up to five feet and regular glass above? With yellow and green plasticene snakes at the edge of those....
or if you put them in from the inside, all you see is you! and who cares about the neighbors if you don't see them? that could do the trick. plus it optically doubles the room.
THEN Kicky could stand there all day, stark b*llock naked, jiggling his wiggly at them and they wouldn't know a thing about it.
well, THEY would, they could see in. But since he wouldn't see out, why would he care...
Oops! I didn't see your previous post, Dag.
'Twould be funny though, either way.
outside light is highly overrated...
Heehee...Kicky accused ME of ranting!!!
(pokes Kicky in the ribs)
C'mon, you can take it. You're a NooYawker, fer Chrissakes. You guys live to argue.
Seriously...GreenWitch and others have offered you some workable solutions. Pick one, stop whining, and get on with it.
And stop leering at the 14 year old. (Shame on you.)
(pokes Kicky in the ribs again)
Okay, so I've composed a letter to my neighbors finally. I thought it would be better to do this while I'm not home, so I won't write anything that could possibly be interpreted as obnoxious or as$hole-ish.
What do you think?
Dear Neighbor,
I am sorry to bother you, but I have a matter to discuss that involves both of us. I live in the building next door to you. My apartment is on the 4th floor, at the back of the building, directly across from the living area/dining room you have there.
My issue is that there are people in that living area all the time, and although I realize that it is your space and you may do what you want with it, I was hoping that you would get some blinds or curtains, so that we can both maintain some sense of privacy. My apartment is very small, and these are the only windows I have, so I hope you can accommodate my request.
I walked over to hopefully speak to someone about this the other day, but nobody was available at that time to discuss it. If you would like to discuss this further, please call me on my cell phone at ***-***-****.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Kicky
I think it sounds fine. Let's just hope they aren't too touchy.
It sounds very courteous, Kicky.
I just realized it's been 40 days since they moved in. Since they're Jewish, I wonder if I should play up the religious angle. Maybe I should add something about "for forty days and forty nights I've toiled with this matter..."
Most definitely you should play up that angle - I love the 40 days business... yes, yes, yes, do it. Here, let's all help write the letter... you could start with the following salutation:
Dear Family Without any Drapes:
