Is privacy an issue?

yes, privacy is an issue as our house overlooks another house and we are in a city with close lots

Is the bottom of the chandelier 8' above the rim of the tub? If not 8 feet above the top of the rim it must be at least 3 feet away from the tub side.

You don't have room for draperies which would have to stack back on either side. Sconces are in the way.

The window over the tub is basically screaming for partial cafe curtains on the lower half. Leave the upper portion open for light (unless your neighbors are close/high enough to still see in the top part of the window). I was going to suggest a pinch pleat on a brass rod - just like that inspiration photo!

Lovely bathroom!

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top down option?

you could do a roman shade

zebra

mini blinds

cafe

a type of woven bamboo

Thank you all for the feedback!! The chandelier is in front of the tub.

I'd get a solid color roman type shade in the same color as the walls so as not to compete with everything else going on in the room.

Erika, electrical codes/building codes state that if you stand in the bathtub and are able to touch the light, then it is unsafe. For obvious reasons.

I like the shutters pictured above in the comments by the tub.

Curtains seem odd. You could do the top up/down with a valance I suppose.

Beautiful bathroom!

I love Heidi’s style, too, as well as a certain European aesthetic. I would absolutely do cafe curtains. Besides fitting your style well, they’ll allow the pretty windows on top to show. (Unless you need total privacy, of course.)

You can hang cafes higher than the middle:

I think vintage style shutters would be charming, too.

Curtains can be beautiful in bathrooms, and if you used a french return rod, they’d clear your lights.

But I think for your set-up, cafes or shutters would be my choice.

Roman shades and other types of shades might be a pain to mess with over the tub, I can’t tell from the picture..

You don’t want to take away from the charm using something utilitarian like solars, et al.

I vote for cafe curtains.

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For bathroom privacy, I'd try inside mount blackout in up/down cellular [I guess]. Then whatever type fabric over...

Thanks Jinx!! I think you and JP L are right that the cafe curtains fit my style, and I should have mentioned that this is a 1930 Tudor cottage that we added onto so I think it works with the house as well. My husband loves minimalism and MCM so he is not a fan of the cafe curtains, but I think I needed someone else to say it’s ok (haha!). However, cafe curtains are relatively inexpensive compared to other window treatments so is easy to change if it don’t like it. I did my daughters windows in Schumacher Huntington garden; sons in sister parish serendipity; and my office in sister parish dolly so I am at a loss with what to do when it’s not chintz haha!!

Thanks to everyone who has posted with your ideas and comments!!!