The living area in my great room has 4 very tall/long windows, ceiling is 10’. I want a window treatment for the comfortable warmth it gives to a room, and I like color and pattern. I’ve chosen a vintage style bark cloth in a large Hawaiian print that I absolutely love, it makes me very happy. You can’t really appreciate the colors of the fabric in the picture, brown, grey, green and touches of red on a very soft yellow/cream background. The dark bamboo blinds go well with the dark fireplace mantel, the stair railing across the room, the large ceiling fan, and an old antique grandfather clock. The walls are a grey. The yellow on grey actually works quite well, and there are touches of grey in the fabric as well.

I would describe our style as eclectic – casual - traditional. We have a large sofa with chase which is also in the dark red. The rug will likely be replace with something more natural like a jute rug (it doesn’t work with the fabric), and I’ll add more pattern in pillows on the sofa. The wall with the windows will be left mostly free of furniture as we will be bringing in some large houseplants soon (now on the deck). The corner wicker rocker will be replaces with a large leather chair.

Now my question. I’m planning non-fictional stationary drapery panels on each side of the windows, probably pinch pleated and hanging from black rings on a black rod. The windows are not that far apart but too far apart to fill completely with the drapery panels without making the windows look too narrow. The windows are so tall that I worry that floor length drapes would all look to vertical and narrow. I’m considering having the panels only reach just below the window molding. I’ve not seen any pictures of this kind of treatment.
My original plans were to make a cornice treatment as in but I worried about it being too casual.

Please offer advice, suggestions, and comments. Thanks.