Privacy Please!

I have 2 lovely bathrooms in my new house, each with awesome windows to let in natural light.  I also have 2 great neighbors on each side of my house, each about 10 feet from my house (welcome to city living!).  Needless to say, as lovely as the 2 windows are and close as I am to my neighbors, I am not close enough to want them to see me showering or doing any other bathroom activities from my lovely bathroom windows.

Curtains are expensive.  Okay, home-ownership is expensive in general.  So curtain cost, in addition the fact that I still don't know how I want to decorate the bathrooms, but needed to get some privacy asap, led to me looking for alternative options for the windows.

If I haven't mentioned it before, my parents are wonderful (and pretty smart).  My mom recently has gotten into home related DIY projects and mentioned that I should look into window film for them instead of curtains.  You get to a certain age and you learn that your parents are probably right about most stuff - so I make another trip to Lowe's to check it out . (FYI - if you decide to do this yourself - window film is with the blinds.)

I liked what I saw, so $30 later I head home with my window film and an application kit (you obviously can't apply it without the kit - of course.) 

So Saturday morning, I get up early and start following instructions.  I get to the point when you need to "trim" the excess around the edges - and of course, the knife in the kit may as well be a spoon.  So I make my daily run to Lowe's and get a big girl blade!

The windows turned out great - see the before and after below.

So as a cheap fix - I was able to cover 2 windows (one not shown) for $30 and they look even better in person!  Now I still have my lovely windows that let in light and great neighbors - who now cannot see me shower!