We moved into this old house last year, and the bathroom has this huge, weirdly shaped window that looks directly into the neighbor’s kitchen. I’m not even exaggerating, I could see what kind of cereal they eat. For a while we just taped up some wax paper, which looked absolutely awful, and didn’t really do the job anyway. I started looking for privacy solutions that weren’t hideous or impossible to install. Curtains in a bathroom just didn’t sit right with me, plus they’d end up soaked half the time. I tried cutting one of those big sheets of frosted film from the store, but it was a nightmare getting the edges clean — I messed up the first try and had to toss the whole thing. Then I somehow found this service that lets you upload your own design and they cut the film to the exact shape of your window. That sold me. I scanned in this old art print I liked, kind of an abstract tree thing, and boom — it showed up ready to stick on, fit like a glove, and I didn’t need to trim a millimeter. Game-changer honestly. It actually made the bathroom look finished, which is something I never expected from... window film.
Yep, we did something really similar in our sunroom. We get direct sunlight there all afternoon, and the glare was making it impossible to read or even sit comfortably by the window for more than ten minutes. I didn’t want to block the light completely, just soften it somehow, and also keep a little privacy from the neighbors without totally closing us off. I’m not good with DIY stuff, so I knew I’d mess up if I had to cut anything myself. That’s when I looked into getting something custom-cut and found this site that actually lets you upload whatever you want — illustration, photo, whatever — and they ship it to you pre-cut to the shape and size of your window. I used a photo I took of these flowers in our backyard, kind of edited it to make it look more artsy, and it turned out better than I hoped. It’s semi-opaque so the light still comes through, but no direct eye contact with the neighbors anymore. I used this windowfilm and honestly wish I had known about it a year earlier. No bubbling, no hassle, and no need to get out a ruler and scissors, which is always a win for me.
Funny how you can stare at something for years and then suddenly decide to change it — and once you do, you can’t remember why you lived with it that way for so long. Makes me wonder what other little things I’ve been just tolerating without realizing.
