for the most part, i prefer to the floor or just above. i'm trying to plan draperies for the new house now but they will be nothing like what we had at the old house... when i did the downstairs at our first place we did puddled curtains. my bff is a decorator and has been in the business for a thousand years. he knows EVERYONE. so they were made by a woman he stole from a professional work room and expertly hung by two specialists who spent over nine hours at my house steaming, fussing and arranging the draperies. this was not a weekend job for them. they told me they had been at the douglas-zeta jones residence the day before. i paid them $500 (not bad considering the time spent) and was asked in advance to provide six different flavors of ben & jerry's ice cream. seemed fair to me. plus it was august, after all. when they finished, the drapes were perfect and glorious. everyone commented on them. they were stunning. and then, one day i decided to pull out my vacuum cleaner and do a quick once around. so i picked up one side of the drapes and vacuumed the floor behind and below. and then i tried to puddle them in the exact, picture perfect arrangement as styled by the ultra fabulous team with the ice cream obsession. i was heartbroken. it wasn't easy but after a long time (...who knows, maybe an hour?) i finally brought them back to an acceptable state. from that point on, i never touched them, they never moved. i vacuumed AROUND them, always careful not to disturb their perfectness again -until the day we moved. so, no more puddled anything for me. romans or to the floor. that's about as dramatic as i'm ever going again.

What a lovely room and large space you have to work with! If it were me, I'd do a layered WT with 2" white wood blinds for light control/filtering and stationary panels framing the window. Then I'd center the storage cubbies on the wall so the panels fall to either side--or even move the cubbies to a different wall. Children's preferences change rapidly and what she loves right now might look to kiddish in a few years and then you'll have to change it. The wood blinds will be something that will last through several room makeovers and then you only need to change out the stationary panels as she gets older--which is a fairly inexpensive change. I've just finished doing room makeovers for my two DD's (ages 9 and 15). I did their rooms previously 3-years-ago. Both rooms involved different paint colors, bedding and WTs; yet the wood blinds stayed.

I think part of it depends on the sil itself . Mine protrudes out about 2inchs. I think curtains hung at the bottom of it would protude out at a funny angle . If I were to put curtains on it I would hang them right at the sill because of this protrusion.

Hi Patty! The curtains should go to the floor. Do not stop them at the baseboard length. I think curtains should always go to the floor. Otherwise, it looks too choppy. The full length curtains will help your space to feel taller and look more grand. Good Luck!