I generally like my windows naked but we live in a more urban area now so we have curtains on the first floor in the living room, kitchen and sunporch. All the bedrooms have window treatments - black out curtains in the master and blinds with curtains in the other bedrooms. My favorite window treatments though are in our master bath and closet - top down roman shades in a really pretty material pattern. Eventually I want to replace the kitchen window treatments with something similar but they were too pricey to do all over when we first got them.
Our only drapes are in the bedrooms, but we live on 2 1/2 acres in the woods.
We have no window coverings in the living and family room. We have blinds in the bedrooms. When we remodeled we added a couple solar tubes to the kitchen/dining area. I really like them and my plants LOVE them.
I have professional Roman shades in the kitchen. One of the bedrooms has wooden shutters. In all the other rooms I delight in making curtains. Well I work in a fabric store. At the moment I have frosted overlays on my downstairs windows because weāre having work done on the front of the house and I prefer not to be living theater but I want the light. Canāt wait to peel those off.
We have sheer Oatmeal colored shades with fabric blinds between the 2 layers in our big living room and dining room windows that look out on the street. It gives us a lot of options re light and view outside vs privacy. We have regular mini blinds in the upstairs bedrooms. There are various curtains upstairs in the bedrooms but not downstairs.
I live in Texas so I have blinds to block out the heat. I also live on a corner in town, so I need them for privacy. I have curtains over the blinds in many rooms.
I went to an open house a few months ago. It was a very expensive home, new construction. I was actually there to get ideas for our remodel. In the master bath, there were several large windows. There was a light switch on the wall. When you flipped the switch, the windows converted from clear to frosted for privacy. I LOVED that. There is no telling how much those windows cost!
No curtains except in the kidsā old bedrooms. We also live in the woods, and really, no one can peak in anywhere. We like the light.
No skylights. Everyone we know who has had them has had leak issues eventually. This even with high end construction and supposedly excellent quality sky lights. We have plenty of windows.
I am a custom window treatment fabricator so I have roman shades and drapery panels I have made myself all over my home.
I seriously donāt know how people can afford custom treatments! I just finished some multi-width Ripplefold panels to cover a slider in my parents master bedroom, and it was $1500ā¦ That was fabric and hardware at my cost and free labor! Ouch.
My house is a mix. The double hung vinyl windows in my bedrooms and baths have fake dividers in the windows. My french doors out to the deck have wooden grid dividers on the inside (so one big piece for the entire window) which is pretty easy to take off and put back on if I want (they are stained wood to match the door frame). My other windows donāt have dividers (patio door, smaller double hungs, picture window, greenhouse window, etc.)
Although we would have privacy if our windows werenāt covered, I hate looking out at blackness (maybe I should put that in the strange phobia thread). Every window is covered at night and I go around the house closing things when it gets dark.
I have vinyl mini blinds in the family room, beds, and baths (some have cute fabric valances also), I have a pleated shade on my green house window, I have those big horizontal blinds on my patio door windows. I have heavy lined drapes (that go to the floor) on my living room and dining room large windows. They keep out the draft and the hot sun to help keep my house a comfortable temperature.
I have a simple sheer on the ground floor windows facing the street. The guest rooms have roll down black out shades. (Good quality ones.) Our bedroom has blackout honey comb shades that cost a fortune. My office used to have cheapshades from home depot, but I had to climb on my desk to pull them up or down and the cord was always popping out. I replaced them with something totally low tech. I have two push pins at the top corners. Then a piece of Hawaiian cloth my SIL gave me that I was supposed to wear as a sarong, but never did. Itās attached to the two pushpins with binder clips. When Iām not being blinded by the sunset, I kind of fold and roll up the cloth in the center and hold it together with a binder clip so I can see my backyard. It sounds totally ridiculous, but I actually like it quite well.
Currently looking for 4 matching tablecloths with particular colors for use for guest bedroom curtainsā¦the right shower curtain would work also.
The skylights if done well provide a different light and brightness to a room IN ADDITION to windows - certainly not something that is always a doable project but I felt even more like the room was āsunnyā. And awesome in a bathroom.
But yeah, I remember the leaking stories.
We got rid of the heavy drapes several years ago in favor of plain panels. The bedroom windows have room darkening shades to pull at night but except for that (and bathrooms) I like letting the light in.
So if the lights are on you canāt look out the window even if you want to? Even from my bathroom I enjoy looking out the window at birds and squirrels in the trees - plus can see whoās coming down the road if I hear a car. I wouldnāt want to lose that. Itās free entertainment for me and no one can see in easily (2nd floor).
Today Iāve been lightly steaming and putting a light finish on my main floor wood floors. A good reminder of how much I need a new living room rug! I love HomeGoods for rugsā¦but have not been in a store since March. On cleaning breaks Iām looking on Wayfair.
My style is old home with new twists - clean line furniture, pops of color, comfortable leaning on casual. I want to bring some mid-century modern touches in.
Is there an online rug resource you like? My budget would be like Pottery Barnā¦Outlet. 
No drapes. Never had them and donāt like them. Weāve used mini-blinds, vertical blinds, and cafe curtains or panels that only cover the lower half of windows of our family area, which gives us privacy, but always allows light. I typically sew my own 1/2 curtains so theyāre very simple.
Mini blinds are no longer popular, but I like them. They allow me to adjust to whatever the light situation is at the time Iām in the room. Our earlier ones still have the cords, but newer ones are cordless. Our home is about 10ā + higher than the street, so if adjusted correctly I can have full privacy while still allowing light.
The window controls are independent of the roomās lighting controls. They have their own switch to flip between clear and frosted independent of whether the room lights are on or off. You get to decide when you want them clear or in privacy mode. Look up āeGlassā for an example.
I have a kitten and a cat.
Kittens (and sometimes cats) seem to like to climb curtains.
I have very inexpensive window coverings in my house.
I remember being shocked that my aunt spent $10,000 on plantation shutters for 3 rooms (and she didnāt have the 10,000 bucks to spare, but thatās another story).
We had our house painted at the beginning of COVID, and now I need new bedroom curtains, but donāt want to order on-line because itās hard to judge colors.
@abasket, on occasion Iāve found nice area rugs at Overstock.com, eBay, and Home Decorators (now Home Depot). Unfortunately, with one particularly destructive senior male cat, weāre using indoor-outdoor rugs instead of wool Pottery Barn-style rugs at this time. Our downstair wood floors are due for a major refinishing and some board replacements. Hope your floors turn out well!