How do you feel about rooms and windows?

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I don't like being exposed by too many doorways or uncovered windows. We have blackout curtains in our house because we don't even like light to be visible from the street from the windows. This week, glass from windows fell to the street here in NYC. These floor to ceiling glass residential towers are the latest building style in NYC and I think they are the dumbest thing and I bet that the novelty appeal wears off very quickly for residents. Not only do the windows fade whatever is in the room but you are totally being watched by office workers when you scratch yourself or pick your nose. I think exhibitionsists are rare in the NT and in the aspie population so the sales of these pricey apartment seem to be lemming purchases. Mindless.

I don't think they are architectually clever and worse, they are bad for birds. Pictures of old buildings in Paris are more inviting than some humongo monolith to ego and insecurity in Asia. Sadly, New York is showing very nouveau tendencies in their palate. How embarassing, how expensive, how wasteful and how dangerous for pedestrians even the ones not dumb enough to think those buildings are of great design.

I hate those floor to ceiling windows in modern houses and apartment buildings--it would be like living in a fishbowl, I wouldn't like it, and I couldn't live like that. I like tall windows but I don't like a wall that is a window. I'd rather have that wall to put artwork on, or a book case.
Perfection is a clerestory window,which is a usually oblong window at the top of a wall; it lets in light but not too much light, and it's too high to really see out of or into, unless you have a ladder...usually.
I'd rather have normal windows I can put blinds on, and put up curtains--right now I have my dream curtains in my living room which are long, dark red, velvet drapes...
In the winter I put plastic on the windows, army blankets over that, and then drapes on top of that...but that's mostly for warmth.
In the summer, I still dislike anyone being able to see into my home, from outside, and I've always made sure you can't.

If I could I would live in total darkness. Work provides more mental stimulation than I care for each day and the last thing I need is more of it when I get home. Right now I have all the windows in my apartment blocked out with card board.

I love lights out at home. I can do that too.

The cleaner, the less-chaotic, the more serene and tastefully decorated the better.