I added sheers to mine with a top and bottom rod when it was a family room. When It was used for a bedroom, an opaque curtain was used. Not sure about that look with a farmhouse style, though. If you're up for the expense, adding sliding barn doors could be neat.

There is no wall space for sliding barn doors. Thank you for your suggestions. I appreciate you taking the time to brainstorm with me!

French doors often had lace curtains.

I just remodeled and have glass doors with stiles and mullions for all interior doors. My doors have a completely opaque glass which smooth but you could always have any kind of frosted or opaque glass added which are less opaque. It wouldn't be terribly expensive to have a local glassmaker retro-install new glass.

Shutters are a nice farmhouse touch.

Either mounted on the wall:

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Or louvered shutters mounted to the doors:

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There are frosted sprays and films that can be cut as well as blinds toadd privacy. Or you can put laser cut "screen" on top. I have also seen curtains say in a flowy chiffon like fabric.

Well.You will either have to add a privacy film to these, or the MOST minimal shade to drop only when you need it, and sized mounted to cover the glass and mostly disappear when not in use.. Or replace the glass doors with solid, ........... and leave them hanging open until you want the privacy.

Forget sheers, flowy anything. Not your LOOK. A privacy film can work, cuts easily. Depends how MUCH privacy or darkness you need

do you want privacy from visitors seeing your messy office, or privacy for a guest room?

if the first, films and things can work. for total privacy, i ended up sewing rectangular panels that had black out lining in the middle and i put them up on the inside of the sunroom door when guests are staying. hung on a tiny rod on cup hooks, velcroed by dots to the back of the door so they don't swing around and leave gaps. most of the time they're folded in the closet and nothing is obvious on the back of the door.

people keep coming to stay so they must be ok with it.

Thank you all for your great ideas - some I hadn't ever thought of or considered (mirrors)! So all comments have been helpful and educational. Loved your descriptions of how you've solved it and your pictures, that helps me visualize (and trust me, I need help visualizing!) Now I have some ideas to discuss with my husband and can move forward. Yes, ninigret - messy office! Ü Jan, I think your top picture is the perfect solution for us, as I would hate to have to mess with taking the glass out and putting in different glass at this point. Would you tell me a little more about the privacy film that is shown in that picture? Where to get it? What's involved? Etc. (Sorry, I'm clueless!) Thanks again to all! I really appreciate the help!

Anastasia -- we didn't take the glass out -- we just put the mirrors on top. Our glass guy cut them and them just used some adhesive to put them on top of the glass. If we ever want to go back to the original all we have to do is pop out the mirrors. It was a fairly inexpensive fix for us.

Martha, great to know! Thanks for the idea and taking the time to share. Love that it isn't permanent and leaves options down the road.

I have privacy film on the side lights of my French door and just use bamboo roman shades on the actual doors. But my french doors lead out to my patio.

Martha, can you tell me if you put the mirrors on both sides of the glass? I have interior french doors throughout my house and am trying to get away from the curtain paneled look.

Privacy film is at JoAnn Fabrics, hardware stores, and others.