Whether you're looking to decrease the chances of coming home to a robbed house, or just stop a potential peeping tom, improving your home's privacy is widely accepted as a good idea. Even if someone isn't walking around looking for things to steal or for goods to gaze at, if they see something, they may act. What are some things you can do to increase the privacy of your home?

Try Window Frosting

For the external windows of particularly private rooms of your house, frosting may be a good idea. There are many different ways you can frost a window. You can buy products such as films and aerosol sprays. However, if you would like, you could still buy old-fashioned glass frosted by design, for a less artificial look.

Get Home Window Tinting Done

Unlike frosting, home window tinting allows for a better view of the outside from the comfort and safety of your home, and it often almost acts as a one-way mirror during the daytime when seen from the outside. Not to mention, tinted windows do a great job of decreasing the amount of UV rays entering your home, which can damage skin, flooring, and furniture. This blocking of UV rays will also probably decrease your air conditioner bills during the hot Australian summer.

There's also quite an aesthetic improvement delivered by window tinting, often providing what looks like a coat of paint-on mirror. Good tinting reflects the beauty of the sky and your garden softly into the eyes of an onlooker, as opposed to standard glass, which instead displays a half visible view of the insides of your home mixed with glare. This aesthetic improvement will likely improve the value of your house as well.

Grow Some Hedges

While also stylishly traditional and natural, hedges are a great way to improve both your home and yard's privacy and great if you have young children. However, if you want your hedge to grow as tall as a fence, it will probably need quite a wide growing space, usually a few dozen centimetres. If you can't provide such a space, perhaps consider growing bamboo instead.

Consider Organic Screening

If living bamboo isn't for you, perhaps try out some bamboo screening. You can cover just the inside or both the inside and outside of an unsightly metal bar or chain-link fence. You can also commonly find brushwood, java reed and bark options in most DIY stores.