It sounds like budget will keep most things from happening, but at least you can have goals and get to what you can. Trimming of trees is a lot easier/less costly if one keeps up with it and ANTICIPATES what's to come. 1.) A branch that's 10" in diameter is hard, time consuming and troublesome to cut. That same branch was once only 1" in diameter and could have been removed in about 10 seconds. 2.) As branches grow longer and thicker they hang down further. So branches that are only 4 or 5' off of a roof now, will be resting on it in a year or two. 3.)There's a store of energy in a tree that is in relative balance between foliage and roots. When the roots contain a surplus of energy relative to the foliage, the foliage will have a growth spurt. (For example, if one cut off all the foliage, the tree would have a major growth spurt. I'm not suggesting do this.) However, the growth spurt will most likely not to be channeled into what was cut... but in what remains. Therefore, A tree can be shaped much better, faster, and more efficiently (less waste of the stored energy) if it is pruned judiciously right along from babyhood. The wrong way is to let it get too out of bounds in places and ways it shouldn't, and then try to fix it long after it was needed. I understand that you are using the maple tree to solve a problem, but it looks like a case of using a hammer to kill mosquitoes. Why not consider some sort of screen close to, and wrapping the corner of the lot that will obscure traffic? It could possibly be combined with fencing that was mentioned earlier. I'm thinking along the lines of lattice or some kind of grill work with wines growing on it or some such thing. There's lots of possibilities. Just a thought. Hopefully, you don't want to grow the globe arborvitae as two separate balls. The house does not seem to be asking for any. I'd move the right-most globe leftward, as shown, to at least give these hope of growing together. The Euonymus coloratus is the shaggy reddish plant. I'd move it over to the Maple and start making groundcover out of it. I've marked up one of your pictures to suggest a bed line. And to show where you should have pruned the Maple.

The shelves on the left will have baskets to hide most of the stuff. Like I said, we just rearranged. Each of my kids has a cabinet and the open shelves work well for them for now. I'd love it if I could have doors on everything. That said, I don't think leaving the door off the closet will work for me, even though I know it's the easiest option! I think I will go with second easiest and just get a tension rod for curtains. I'll play with tie backs and curtain lengths and post a picture when I figure out what I like. Thanks for all the feedback!!

I would put a top down, bottom up opaque shade, mounted on the cross piece below the arched window. With a remote control, you could raise the shade when you need privacy and lower it when you don't. It would be almost invisible when open and folded down and looks like it could be raised almost to the upper corner of the wall. Then I'd have a romantic cornice board or valance made to hang just over the top of the arch, filling in the whole top of the wall, so that when the blind is closed it fits up under it to totally cover the window. It would also hide any blind hardware at the top of the arch. You might lose a tiny bit of the view from the very tippy-top of the arch window where the valance hangs down, but not much. Kind of like this, but more in your romantic style - without the draperies: Or look at this! adjust a view!

We have a window like this in a bedroom. We’ve replaced the whole window bottom and half moon once because the seal broke on the half moon due to the hot sun shining on the half moon and rotting the window frame. Then we just replaced the half moon part with new glass and that room gets unbearably hot or cold now. We can’t pick up our house and turn it. lol I’m not sure what to do to fix this. The builder should have never put that half moon window on the house. Only a regular two panel window. I wish there was an easy fix to just get rid of the half moon and still make the front of our house look nice.