In the DR you could do shades with panels or Roman shades

What are shades with panels? A type of horizontal blind?

Rho - my guess is jck910 means shades over the windows with drapery panels on each side of windows.

For corner

Pretty windows! for the dining room, I could totally see bamboo blinds with simple panels hung on the sides like @jck910 and @Celery. Visualization, Rendering images shared - love the softness of the panels and the bamboo brings nice texture

we’ve done this in several homes with Ikea’s linen panels and inexpensive bamboo blinds, it’s a nice look without a lot of investment

Thank you so much for your responses!

For dining room:

I like the idea of panels with roman shades or blinds. You don’t think panels will be ‘too much‘ since windows aren’t very big? Also, can both panels & shades fit since outside mount is the only option?

On corner windows:

Could romans without panels also be a good look? It’s kind of a small/tight space there.

You hang panels wider and higher than the window, it makes the windows look larger and doesnt block any light

Have you measured for doing inside mount shades (in the dining room)? Brackets I’ve used for them in the past weren’t large. If you go that route, I’d use lined ones, as they can be see-thru at night when lights are on.

Another idea is cafe curtains hung taller than the usual. I think you have room for inside mount … or even tension rods if the curtains are lightweight.

Showing these as examples of being hung higher:

Outside mount:

With woven shade:

For your living room, I’d do Roman shades for sure, for a cleaner look being in the corner and near the sliding glass door.

I have outside mount roman shade with panels.

I think for dining windows you could have the panels for each window stack to sides towards corners of room / outside edge of windows. This would leave the center space open to hang art on the wall.

Wow, these are all such great suggestions & I love every single photo posted here.

Jilly, do you think simple white or ivory linen roman shades would work in the corner windows?

Thank you!

Lucy, yes, I think either of those would be fine. Or you could do a nice pattern, or even a soft solid color. It just depends on how you want the room to feel. :)

They just need to coordinate with your slider drapes. You could even use woven shades in there, too.

I meant to put in my other post that there are lots of other types of woven shades besides the usual bamboo kind … especially if you’re needing privacy. Just search ’textured Roman shades’ and other relevant terms.

Thank you so much!

One more question on the corner window: will white or ivory linen romans look ok with the nearby oatmeal color drapes? Or would that be a mismatch?

Lucy, if you’re meaning the oatmeal color drapes on the sliding door- the corner windows should be the same fabric & color. That close together using different fabrics or colors would definitely be a mismatched look. Different styles work if windows dictate using different styles but the fabric should be same.

I thought that could be the case (even though i I was hoping they don‘t need to match).

Thank you!

Lucy, these aren’t ’rules’ we must follow! 😊 Just guidelines. What I’ve always practiced & also read on this site is that window treatments that can be seen from the same vantage points look best if they’re either the same or share some common theme. Doing that eliminates a choppy & cluttered look - or, said another way - creates a unified & cohesive look. That common theme is why windows near each other can have blinds / shades / drapes in a mix depending on the window type. But they will have a common theme in color or texture. In your corner window case it’s right next to the slider. You’re using the same window treatment - panels. But, an ivory or white panel right next to the oatmeal color panel will always draw the eye because of the difference & not in a good way. You could match the oatmeal for the corner window & have a different color in the dining room. They look to be far away from each other so wouldn’t look like a mismatch.

Lucy, since you’re doing a different WT — Roman shades on the living room windows — as long as they don’t clash, they don’t have to be an exact match.

You could get some samples of different fabrics and tape or hang them up to see what you think in different lighting situations and such.

Of course if you’d prefer a very monochromatic look, you could use an exact match with the panel and Romans.

ETA: I meant to show you these before …. Roman shades with nice trim:

So many examples out there, just showing one idea of setting them apart from the panel nearby.

Three different WTs close together, but coordinate well:

Lucy - many apologies! I totally missed that the corner windows next to the slider will be Roman shades not drapery panels. So, I still believe everything I said but I agree with @Jilly that they don’t need to be an exact match to the slider panels. If you get textured Roman shades it’ll be pretty easy to find material that has, in its textured design, a color that looks the same as the panels. That will be enough to tie the 2 different treatments together.