well you can put shades under sheers if you like, but i really like having curtains at all windows. you really need to finish the room decorating then have the curtains smile at each other. they do not need to all be identical

question,,,why do you have that sofa against the windows, when the wall opposite has nothing? Right now if you were to do any type of drapes, they'd get bunched up behind the sofa.

can you flip it and take another pic? (that sectional is actually too large for that narrow space, but lets see how it looks on the other wall). do you have a rug for that space or a coffee table or ottoman?

this is a similar long, narrow room like yours. look at how it's arranged

for the windows next to fireplace, they are too narrow for drapes, so i'd do your woven wood blinds there. just do an inside mount.

(and you don't need to cover every window)

some ideas for woven woods, and drapes if you want to try a combo on the others.

this would be nice near the dining table.

you could also do Silhouettes or Pirouette blinds

Plantation Shutters

patterned drapes over plain white blinds.

cellulars.

if you move your sofa to the other wall, you could drapes like these on those windows

Thanks for your ideas! I wish I could move the sofa to the other wall, but unfortunately the long end is too long for the open space! We had this sectional in our other home and love it so don't want to replace it at this point...I definitely agree with your sentiment though and ideally it would be on the other side of the room. I do plan to move it off of the windows a bit to allow for curtain panels to hang and not be bunched up, because I specifically DON'T want that...We have some accent pieces to buy still so the room is no where near complete...for instance I plan to get two sitting chairs for the opposite side of the room, an area rug obviously, and a round coffee table. Then, I'll have to figure out how to decorate that empty two story wall...it never ends! I'm happy with our progress thus far though...here is what the room used to look like before we bought it...

If you don't want to get new furniture, would you be willing to take the tv down from over the fp? You could get a nice, long console that takes up most of that empty wall space. May be better viewing over there anyway? Then you can get a great piece of art for over the fp?

Though you would most definitely need blinds for the windows as there would be glare on the tv at certain times of the day...