Would you like to live in an apartment with floor to ceiling glass walls?

Only if it was high enough to be above the tops of surrounding buildings.

So long as the insulation is sufficient (I don’t want to fry), we’re sufficiently high enough and there aren’t a lot of other surrounding high rises (I’d like some privacy), yes.

Unobstructed panoramic views? What’s not to love? Unless you’re acrophobic and/or agoraphobic?

And even if there are other high rises in the area, why not? Having floor to ceiling glass windows doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to cover them when you’d like. Options are nice.

Sounds uncomfortable. No thanks.

No. Thats called a greenhouse.
And the cost of curtains would be ridiculous and every kid on the block playing ball around your home will be an enemy.
It would also be hard to hide from sales man ringing your doorbell.
Uhm! Noo, I’m not home.

I think most of them have uv filters and reflective material on the glass for privacy and climate control. The entrance of high-rises would have a doorman, so there wouldn’t be solicitors.

I would love it, my fiancé is not comfortable with heights, though.

I do.

I worked in a building that had floor to ceiling windows. If I got too close I felt like I was falling. So, no, I wouldn’t like that.

It wouldn’t bother me.

After having lived four years in apartments even floor to ceiling glass walls would not do it for me. There were large glass walls in the living room of one unit we lived in that I really valued, but it did sort of leave us exposed.

Big windows, yes. Floor to ceiling glass walls to the outside, no.

If I did I certainly wouldn’t be feeling superior to others, those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

I grew up in a neighborhood where half the house were Eichlers , known for full height and width glass walls. And they were fascinating houses to go into. It broke the barriers between indoors and outdoors.

The only downside was you ended up needing to keep your rooms very neat and tidy.

Nope! I get kind of queasy the moment I get above the 6th or 7th floor in a skyscraper. I can usually handle it for a few hours, or even stay overnight on a high level of a hotel, but I usually do it by staying away from the windows. As others have said, that kind of apartment would only be practical if you were higher than all other buildings. I can’t imagine living that high off the ground. The thought of experiencing a wind storm from that point is nauseating, even sitting here in my nice one-story house.

I don’t think so. Keeping the windows clean inside (I assume the building would periodically do the outside) could be a problem. Walking up close to the window would make my stomach queasy. A hard storm pounding at the windows would be scary, I think. And the noises of the wind? Who knows? I’ll stay closer to earth, thank you.

As king, I have been holding an annual contest for goldsmiths and jewelers to craft me an ever grander and more beautiful throne. I had a glass house constructed to show off each successive year’s winner to my loyal subjects. I stored all the old thrones in the attic. Sadly, the weight eventually caused my whole palace to collapse on my head. I learned then and there that people who live in glass houses should not stowe thrones.

So no, I wouldn’t want another all glass house. Besides, with all the modern surveillance where Big Brother is watching us, and we’re in turn watching Big Brother, our houses don’t need to be made of fragile glass. We’re visible through the walls with IR cameras, X-rays, etc.

I wouldn’t want to live in a high rise, at least not any higher than the 3rd floor, because I have a fear of heights, but the idea of the floor to ceiling windows is kind of neat, as long as I had a means of covering them if I wanted privacy.

I’ve seen some really cool mid-century era homes like that that, that I loved like This One and This One and This One

I am planning on my next trip to New York to stay at the Standard a hotel over the high Line walkway with full size windows and known for exhibitionist acts against the window. No fear of heights here!

I would love that. I just stayed in a hotel that had them, and a beautiful view of the Long Beach Harbor and the Queen Mary.

Who needs privacy anyways?

I don’t really like the floor to ceiling windows in apartments, espcially of the apartment is 15+ stories high. I am not afraid of heights, but it just feels odd to me. A large tripple or quadruple sliding door to a terrace I like, but a glass wall with the “cliff” right outside the window is strange to me. But, if I loved the apartment otherwise, it would not stop me from buying or renting the apartment.

No. I get a bit of vertigo. I would hate it. I also can’t handle lifts with glass floors. Why?
I am afraid of heights.

@Bellatrix I loathe glass elevators for that same reason. They have one in Los Angeles at the Bonaventure Hotel. I think it’s about 30 stories tall. Last time my brother and I visited, I told him that I would give it a try, which I did, but I was gripping his arm and not looking out the window. The worst part is when it stops and does a little bounce.

No. Not at any height or in any environment, including facing the ocean. I’d feel all the time as if I were falling off the edge. In daylight the side away from the sun might seem pleasant enough, but at night it would let all the dark in.

@Jeruba “letting all the dark in”... I like that.

@RandomGirl, thanks. I know that doesn’t make sense, but it’s how it feels to me.

It makes plenty of sense to me. Darkness is an interesting thing. Sometimes I hate it, sometimes I welcome it. But always, I want to have control over it. An apartment with all glass walls – or even a single glass wall – would make me feel like the darkness was inescapable and enveloping.

Exactly.

IIE mean NO at Japan, I am shy, embarrass easily, like privacy, not want glass surround me. I just want regular windows and doors not have windows.