I liked the new house. I really did. It was bigger and in a better state than the previous one, it had more light from morning to evening, nice hardwood floors, it was closer to all amenities and it overall just gave you this relaxed easy feeling.
After 15 years of renting, we had decided to buy again. And after a couple of fiascos, we had bought with remarkably little drama the house of friends who moved abroad. It was only a quarter of a mile from the old house, so the kids stayed at the same school and our life stayed the same, just that little bit bigger, better, brighter.
There were some little drawbacks. The garage was smaller than before; I had to look for an external garage for one of the cars and my workshop shrunk a bit. The old oak floor was wonderful, but it was nailed in place and some of the nails stood out just so that it catches your bare feet in the morning.
And finally: we could no longer walk around naked in the house. In the old house, even though there had been neighbours all around (we live in the suburbs), we could walk around everywhere in all degrees of undress and even on the terrace without anyone seeing us.
Not that we exceedingly did so; it is just nice to know that early in the morning when you grab your dressing gown you can first switch the coffee maker on and THEN put the dressing gown on. Or you can have a stretch on the terrace, do your ChiGong and only then go get your dressing gown.
In the new house, that was a no-no. From across the street, the neighbours could see into our front room, into the work space (that we magnanimously called the library), into the kitchen, into the sides and into the back of the house; they could see everything a soon as it was not pitch dark outside and inside anymore.
This annoyed my more than just a little; I am a very early riser and I had taken to the habit of reading in the mornings the new stories on Literotica. This often ended with playing with myself and a joyful explosion.
In the new house, this was a bit of a problem. My wife, who knows me and my habits very well insisted for the sake of good-neighbourly relations on a test series. She sat in the different rooms with the light on, while I looked from outside from which angles she could be seen. The result was devastating. There was no place where she could not be seen. And drawing curtains was not an option, I hated curtains.
But then I found the solution: in the first floor room that served as my office, I put two computer monitors on the window sill, which covered me towards the street. I just had to make sure the neighbours on the other side of our narrow street did not open the curtains of their first floor window, which was their bedroom.
I really had an interest to get this right as the young couple across the street both worked for the police. Both were at the riot squad, him as a strongman with shield, helmet and a night stick, her at the canine squad with her big Malinois.
Both were at the end of their twenties, John dark and tall, his hair on the sides short, a little longer on top and gelled back, a big beard and his arms over and over full of tatoos and heavy muscles. If you saw him in a t-shirt and jeans, you would never have expected him to be a copper.