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Do you sleep with your bedroom curtains open or closed?

My bedroom faces the sunrise. Mine stay open. I see plenty of stars and the moon too.

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Closed, I don´t want my neighbours to see the moon. Also I don´t want to be woken by the sun.

Closed, and in the winter usually throughout the day as well (we both work and leave before sunrise and arrive after sunset, so we keep them closed to keep in the heat). They are also incredibly thick to keep out the stupid streetlight across the street.

Curtains open, shutters shut. To keep the heat in, and because some of the gardeners start even earlier than I do, and have leaf blowers...

depends .. whether or not I forget to open or close them

Now this is a meaty question.

In the bedroom they stay closed, as they're probably more draft resistant than the window is, and also because I can't open them as there is too much 'stuff' in front of the window,

Depends on if I want a long lie or not.

Our bedroom is not overlooked on the window side and is surrounded by our very treed up garden so we only have voile curtains and roller shutters. The shutters are open for early mornings and half closed for long lies. Bedroom window is NE facing so although we don't get direct early morning sun, it is annoying enough to wake me if the shutters are fully open.

We have patio doors on the SW side of the bedroom which are permanently shuttered. They face a little lane and though over a wall & tall hedge, I don't like the openness of it on that side (mainly as the shutters are broken and can only be fully open or fully closed)

Nowadays, curtains and blackout blind closed. For a long time (years) I didn't get around to putting up curtains in our bedroom - I generally prefer not to cover windows and we overlook a field, but after about the fiftieth incident of flashing the postman or the bin men on our road I finally decided the time had come to get some curtains up. Our post comes later or not at all these days - I wonder if these things are related?

I didn't get the blackout blind until I had a small person waking me up at the crack of dawn.

UK closed, to keep the warmth in

Here open, to let me know when it is morning - currently 7.49 am.

Closed to keep out the street lights and to keep in the heat.

Oh, and the other reason that curtains are useful here, asides keeping the heat in, is I guess they must contribute a bit to keeping the noise from outside out... well helps muffle the screams and shouting and sounds of vandelism and breaking glass a bit I guess

Closed here...there's another house right alongside us, and the bedroom window is on the side of the building.

Last place in London - closed: building was on the inside of a rectangular U-shape, so people opposite would have been able to see into the bedroom.

Place before that in London - completely open. It was on the river, and East-facing, at the end of the civilised world (at the time) i.e. there were no other high-rise waterfront developments further East from me (possibly due to the proximity of London City Airport). I did have curtains, but they were effectively useless against the rising sun, so I didn't bother with shutting them. Blackout blinds would've helped, but frankly I like the sun streaming in through the open windows of a morning. it's not like it's such a commonplace in the UK that you can afford to ignore it.

RF

Mine are always closed all night. I've just gotten used to darkness when I sleep.

3Dots - you're a bad, bad man

I´ve actually been out buying curtains recently. There were so many places you could buy panel curtains, and so few places with real curtains. I can´t see the point in having panel curtains.

panel curtains? What are they?
My curtains are very un-good.... when I moved in I needed curtains for all the rooms, and as the windows are floor to ceiling in pretty much every case, it was way* too expensive for me at the time to buy decent ones... I do plan to replace them all at some point though, and have a feeling it'll cost a small fortune to get the decent ones I'd prefer to have

Funny, I´ve had problems finding curtains that were short enough. They all seemed to assume you had windows from ceiling to floor.
Panel curtains are thin strips of fabric, like a foot wide, that hangs on either side of the window. They may look nice, but the don´t cover anything so are quite useless.

Closed to keep the draught out.

Room is North facing so I'm never bothered by that pesky yellow ball in the sky. I'm usually woken by the 6.00 Belfast-Bangor train, or the 6.45 flight to Heathrow instead

Double glazing helps with the noise a bit, but the curtains have no effect there.

Preference? Open. But I look out over a tree-filled valley and the nearest neighbours who could possibly see me would need a telescope and a lot of imagination because of the trees and the angle they'd be trying to see through the glass at. Quite frankly if I'm that interesting, they are more than welcome.

I like being woken by the sun (I only get sun in my room in the early morning. By eleven it's gone past the big bay window that is my living room and is warming up a big blank wall with one small window in it and doing sod all else. I love to see the moon (he's very friendly) when I'm off to sleep and having the moonlight flooding the room on a fullish night is just gorgeous.

Unfortunately one of my shutter windows doesn't work and has dropped and it's all too fragile to mess around with at the moment so it's too damn cold for open shutters so in the winter it's a case of top shutter sompletely closed, bottom shutter half open for light and some air (he calls it a draft. Hmph) and a curtain pulled across to dissipate the worst of the blustery winds that get up when it's a bit stormy and stop too much heat loss.

I love having the big window open when it's warm enough though. Means you have to cosy up under the covers and it's fresh and light and airy all the time. Last year the tits were coming and sitting on the window frame and stealing wood for nesting