What a great kitchen !! I looked at your fabric choices and I really don't think they are substantial enough to be allowed in the same room as those rich cabinets....... to me they read as very soft and very traditional, no oomph.

The Regal Antique paisley has that presence, imo, or a rich stripe ; personally , I would look at high quality woven woods for some texture, and since you mentioned it, yes a more striking pendant would bring in a touch of elegance sort of like adding the perfect necklace to an outfit.

I get a more masculine feeling from your kitchen, and I love it ; I guess that's why I can't see those soft floral fabrics.

Here's a link to the page with the fabrics.

Here is a link that might be useful: Fabrics

Oops, you already provided that link. Sorry, I was PBCing - posting before coffee.

If I were doing a roman shade in that room, I would want a rich fabric that could hold its own with the cabinets. I don't see a fabric at that site that knocks my socks off.

Have you considered a natural woven shade? It would add texture to the room and may be more contemporary than a fabric shade.

I agree with the other ladies, you definitely need a higher quality material for your beautiful kitchen, have you tried looking at the Hunter Douglas site and also the Levolor site. Hunter Douglas has life time warranties on all their curtains and shades.

Here is a link that might be useful: Hunter Douglas

Thanks everyone. My thought was to bring in some color and pattern to what is currently all wood, wood tones and metal. I did think to add texture, but would a natural woven shade look boring? By the way, I am a girl. :) I love the rich color of the cabinets, but strengthening the masculine aspects of the room may not be what I want. I don't want a window treatment to look cheap or out of place, or country or frilly, but I would rather soften the formality than make it more formal. I like rich colors, but making it a little less traditional, giving it a little modern edge would be nice, but I also like to add some contrasting elements to keep it interesting and personal. I am certainly open to keeping it rich and clean lined, but I need to add some interest and contrast in some way. I picked a faucet that that is supposed to have an organic shape from nature, it looks like a nodding flower to me. I also picked it in shiny chrome to add a little shiny sparkle and break up the brushed nickel and stainless steel bit. The light fixtures I thought were also a little like flowers and might go with the faucet but I think now they just look sort of old fashioned. I may eventually change the knobs, but have no idea to what. I think glass would be very pretty but would play up the formality even more, and to be honest, this kitchen indulges my formal side, but my house is really not super formal.

If I could add a little punch, a little color, even soft color, as well as texture, and make it a little less masculine and traditional at the same time, I would love that. I may be a hopeless cause, however. They had to talk me out of a mini pendant at the lighting store that was a small cube of crystals with a light in the center. :) LOL, I just found a piture of it:

I will save that for somewhere else, though. I have no problem adding a crystal pendant over a country bed. :) Hmmm, maybe one over each night stand... Oops slapping myself upside to get back to the current task and stop daydreaming.

If you have ANY specific recommendations please feel free. I may be wrong, but I am just afraid plain wood blinds would would be too much of the same thing. Whatever I go with, it has to be an inside mount because of the cabinet moldings that don't leave room for an outside mount in the top corners of the window.

Photos are hard to get because of the glare, but here is a clearer picture of the window area. I will have to pare down those plants to just a couple and remove the flag to clean up the look a bit:

Sue

Here is a link that might be useful: The must stay faucet that you can't see clearly in the photo

That crystal cube light would be really nice there, a little bling......

You seem to have your heart set on a print fabric; I think it's just a question of finding the right one.

I don't have my heart set on a print. How about a light sage woven blind or textured fabric roman blind? My living room that this opens into is sage. I am open to other colors also, rich or soft, I just have a hard time with adding more wood. Although, with the light wood floor maybe a light colored wood blind like the floor, that goes that the light wood in the window? I was wondering what to paint that. Do I already have so much wood tones that adding a fabric or color would be out of place? I haven't bought a new table yet, that will almost certainly be a wood, with wood chairs that have upholstered seats that I could do in a coordinating fabric/color. I really need to be kept in line with the formal thing, not encouraged. :) I ask for advise because I really want it, not to be told what I have already decided is ok, even if it seemed that way. If only wood would really look ok and there is really only one way to go here then I guess I need to hear that. I DON'T want to spend several hundred dollars on a window treatment that will look bad.

Here is another pendant I liked, would have gone with if the pole/arm or whatever it was called had just been a little less chunky:

Actually, I still like that. I like a lot of different styles. But lately I have been drawn to adding a little modern mixed in with traditional.

Sue

This is a picture sallymo did for me that had me thinking of a print roman shade. Can anyone else photo shop any of the other suggestions like the paisley or natural woven shades?

Sue

sue-I have a lot of wood too so I know what you mean by not wanting wood blinds. I have woven wood shades in my kitchen and they don't read as wood just texture. You can get very nice trimmed and valenced woven shades in many colors/woods from a lot of places. I got one for my bath from S&N and have been very happy with it. Look at some of the styles in their gallery-maybe something will catch your eye. Funny-I don't remember this pic from their web site but it looks very similar to my blind.
Example:

my blind:

The shade store has a lot of fabric options as well and the prices are similar to Smith and Noble.

Here is a link that might be useful: The Shade Store

Thank you, both. I like the texture of wovens, but I am just not ready to add more brown in that room yet. I would have to find a color and I am not sure which one. If I go with a print, what exactly am I looking for? By "rich" does that just refer to the darker colors or do you mean it really need to be a heavy upholstery weight fabric like the Regal Antique Paisley looks in the close up or can it be a lighter weight fabric with darker, richer colors? I am really not a big stripe person, although there are a few I like, usually more subdued stripes, not at all what I think mitchdesj was suggesting.

Sigh..., I will keep looking.

Thanks to everyone.

Sue