Thank you everyone for helping me with some ideas. Ashef thanks so much for the Cote de Texas website. Wow, some of those curtains are amazing. I'm really wanting to do my kitchen and the morning room in a country feel. And I found a pic of my red gingham curtains on that website, that I think just may work. Now just to find a deal on them somewhere. I haven't bought any curtains in a few years and forgot how expesive they are.

I have different opinion than houssaon. I don’t think rod on picture window is too long. I think you have rod length placed so that drapes stack completely off window when open. And I like look of drapes hung close to ceiling. Not sure if there’s room in corner to have two rods with extended finial at ends. Also, I think you told us that you keep smaller windows covered 100% of time because otherwise you’re looking at the next door house. It looks like you already have one sheer panel on those windows. I think houssaon is after the same effect though - a unified window treatment for all windows in the room.

I like the table you have in the graphic- kind of breaks up the space in a nice way. And would also be handy to use from the laundry or the fridge side. Considering the utilitarian nature of the room, you might want to keep it fairly simple with blinds or shades rather than using curtains. Keep the ceiling basic with a white tone. Depending on what kind of crafting you do, you might want that room to be as basic white as possible so you aren't throwing color on your projects. You might want/need to bump up your lighting too.

Unfortuately old windows were not really a good insulator so often needed storm windows which IMO are real PITA to deal with. Maybe have them redone with douuble panes for better insualtion and then work with the architect to get the most out of the windows . Maybe just on the front of the house with new ones that come close to matching style wise. BTW 9’ ceilings are perfect they also save huge on heating and cooling compared to higher ceilings that BTW really serve no purpose and in your case will also look a bit out of proportion with the pieces you are trying to save,I think that set of door and windows would be fabulous as the front entry to a home and IMO would be the ones worth redoing to be better at weather protection so I would design my entry to embrace those.