#Privacy planter windows

In fact, after living here a while, the only spot that we felt a little more “exposed” than we wanted was one side window upstairs, above the kids’ art desk:

#Privacy planter windows

Luckily, that house doesn’t have any windows that perfectly line up with ours – and thanks to the mature trees and the privacy fence that we added, we don’t really feel like we’re ever going to be waving at each other from inside of our respective homes. We’re also on a corner lot here, so we’re not sandwiched between two houses like our Cape Charles house was… but on this one side of the house, there’s another house that’s somewhat close: And not an inch of grass to mow, which might be my favorite part. Not too much to maintain, but still roomy enough to add a pool, work in some great outdoor hangout areas, etc. Here in Florida, our current home’s lot size is more than three times bigger than our Cape Charles lot (it’s around 4,800 square feet), but it clocks in at around eight times smaller than the one we had in Richmond (which was nearly an acre!) so it strikes a really nice balance for us. You can read more about that house’s renovation here. Even though the houses on each side of us there were nearly identical, which meant that many of our windows lined up perfectly (in fact from one of our upstairs bathrooms we could see into BOTH of the neighbors’ bathrooms on either side – but thanks to the magic of blinds it wasn’t an issue).

It’s a similar feeling to our former beach house in Cape Charles, Virginia, which taught us that we really didn’t mind being that close to other homes. One of the things that contributes to our house being extra walkable to shops, parks, the beach, and restaurants is that it’s less like a sprawling suburban neighborhood due to the lots being a good deal smaller (you can read more about why a walkable neighborhood and a smaller house/lot really appealed to our family in this post). But back to how plants can not only hide ugly stuff, they can also offer some pretty great privacy, as we’re about to demonstrate below. Hopefully it’ll be done next month and we can write one big breakdown with approximately 473 photos. BRB, just changing the name of this blog to “Solving Problems With Plants.” And I know we promised a huge pool post, but the pool is still very much in progress.