Too cute. Hey, she's preggo. I love them.

I actually like the view from the window. To admire other building's is really nice, see other people walking the street, etc.. A great view doesn't need to be clear open space's or the Harbour Bridge, etc.. I like building's so it would be great to have a chair there and look across the roof tops. To see it all through a wonderful set of casement window's is really special. I would probably have shutters rather than curtains. Thick bladed venetian blinds perhaps. Just in white would be fantastic. I like the look from inside and out that shutters and/or venations give. Have to be the chunky timber ones though not the thin bladed ones! I'm not a curtain person so it would take a while for me to end up loving them but I can see where the others are coming from.

We've just installed roller blinds. We're on acreage so privacy is not an issue. However, we did put block-out blinds in the bedrooms (for sleep purposes) and sunscreen mesh fabric blinds in all other rooms. Re the latter, you can see through them whilst still retaining privacy. They stop 85% of the sun's heat and up to 99% UV. We moved to the northern rivers area of NSW earlier this year so we'll see how we fare in the summer. I suspect the see-through blinds will be down most of the time but because they're almost transparent they don't block the light.

Thank you everyone. Decoro, I am afraid I am in Regional Vic., but thank you for the offer. At this stage I have decided to go with sheers but not right to the ceiling - I am going to try them hung from about 70cm above the frame, which is almost level to the ceiling over the kitchen. That way, they are still higher than the window itself, but still leaves me with the 'sky' views through the clerestory windows. The other windows will have double rollers, in a dark, charcoal colour for both the sheer and the block out. Again hoping that will look OK, as most people go for lighter colours (ie white) but all of the walls are Dulux Whisper white, and the window frames are black. When the blinds are down at night, I didn't want to be surrounded by white. Fingers crossed I've made the right decision.