Friendly neighbours?!

I say friendly and I'm sure they would be if I actually met them face to face! I will explain. I live in a very nice flat in a nice street but at times I wish I was in the depths of the country. It is like "Big Brother". I feel that the entire day someone is looking at me. No, I'm not going bonkers! Why I feel this is because opposite me lives someone who obviously enjoys smoking and, at fairly short intervals through the day, they open the window and lean right out with their cigarette and have a good look around. The first time is when I am sitting at my dressing doing my face and hair right in my own bedroom window! And the last time in the day is when I'm sitting in a wing chair in the drawingroom with the light over me reading my book. You will say, if you can be bothered to read all this, " Why can't I move my dressingtable and chair"? But I can't, there's no other place to put them! You will say "Net curtains"? No Way!