Do you need to have total privacy (no light escapes) at the eating area windows? Or moderate light penetration? or just a sheer-type barrier?

Any priority for holding in (or out) heat?

Sun control issues? Day / Night variation in treatment?

Are the various windows needing a coordinated treatment or do you want to keep the French door treatment and the adjacent room treatments separate?

How close are the "attached room" curtains and color scheme(s)?

Where is the french door in relation to the rest of this?

Are the plant shelves in the garden window fixed along the glass side or can a curtain be placed out there? Would you really want a curtain on this window at all or just a treatment at top?

Do you sew or will you be buying? Is your budget set at this time or are you being hypothetical in anticipation of future?
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FWIW, SelectBlinds online which carries shades/blinds/more has offered 4 for 3 sales twice this fall and I suspect there will be another special like this again, perhaps weekend after Thanksgiving but maybe before that. Also, they have a 30% off sale very often, but it's great if you can get both deals in combo.

They have a product I've recently purchased but hasn't arrived yet--a double honeycomb shade which runs in a track, allowing it to qualify for the federal $1500 Energy Rebate until the end of the year--no air leaks around the edge in cold climate. Plus, I was able to get "bottom up/top down" feature, which I need for privacy and sun control. I don't know what climate you're in, but if you're looking for this kind of a treatment, this might be an attractive option to grab the rebate plus coordinate windows in a number of adjacent spaces.

Here is a link that might be useful: SelectBlinds home page

the attached room is pretty much part of the kitchen. is a very small den with a fireplace and 2 windows. the french doors are on the same wall area as the large window in the pic. they are literally 3 ft to the right of the large window.

colors of curtains (target curtains) are burgundy, olive green, gold, deep gold.

i wanted treatments to finish off the room. for the large window... pretty much wanted something to pull down that would look nice, so I could have some privacy. there is only one house that can see in our windows.. but at night i feel better closing up the windows. heat/light coming through not an issue. would like whatever I have on the window to look nice when down.

i would like everything to kind of coordinate.. but the blinds in the doors are hidden most of the time (they are a honeycomb type... slide all the way up inside the windows.

for the garden window... if i had a blind there.. it would come down in front of the plants.

i don't sew! wish I did!

budget isn't too big... lots of other things need to spend $ on.

I should post pics of adjoining room.... and thanks for the tip on the website!

Stephanie

Sorry this is long.
Glad for explanations. Gotta think on this. I would urge you to have complimentary or same or semi-modified treatment on all suitable windows if possible. This would coordinate the look from "room" to "room" and if done well, would add a classy look. You don't have to do it all at once, though. Something modest now and save up for the custom look you crave?

Are the existing curtains something that you want to keep? If so, is there a way to coordinate them with additional windows? Is the fabric still available? Can you find a solid colored fabric that is a suitable match in fiber and texture that could be used to link the window areas--a band of solid or print trim on the romans, for example?

I wonder what others who have greenhouse garden windows do about window coverings? It is possible to drop a roman between the bump-out window and the room. There may be moisture issues with plants, though, so you might not want the window to be too tightly isolated from the air circulation in the room: mold, rot for woodwork.

I am also thinking through the window covering issue for our house and want to be ready if the "4 for 3" sale comes again soon. Have put up tension rods with semi-transparent half-curtains in new kitchen for light and privacy temporarily (see below). DH is in hunting season mode and hasn't finished exterior work, which means that the new honeycombs that just arrived won't go up for a while, and the windows in new kitchen and lobby area will not have sills and mouldings for many months yet, I fear. So I keep designing and redesigning my window treatments in my head. As of now, I plan to layer a strongly patterned roman shade over the single color honeycombs, which will allow me lots of flexibility for all seasons and will give a graphic punch to a window wall that lacks cabinets.

Like you, we have purchased a door with miniblinds within the window panel. It's the front door in our new lobby and am glad we did buy it because of light issues. Am not sure how I'm going to coordinate it with the new high, wide window a few feet away, though. A quandry: Should I buy a very narrow white metal blind to match the door's blind? Even if I don't particularly want white? Belligerently, I'm tempted to use a different product altogether, to add color and texture depth and undercut the mod-ness.

It's important to know as much as possible about the room before you choose your long-term window treatments. If the backsplash is to be a pattern or a real attention-grabber, you don't want windows to be competition. Same with strong colors, etc. If you're still dithering on the backsplash, try doing what I have done and get a cheap tension rod for the eating area and put up something temporarily.

Sewing curtains and valences and roman shades can be very do-able. It's most work on the flat and the seams can be made straight if you use a seam guide on sewing machine. (I have a battered piece of tape that guides me.)

Here is a link that might be useful: semi-transparent half-curtains on tension rods for temp privacy and sun control