I gave up.

I made Dave take the curtains and curtain rod down, spackle up the holes and Barb will hopefully touch up the paint tonight. God bless them both for bearing with me through this whole thing. I just couldn't do it. While the curtains do look nice in the pictures below, they just didn't fit with the rest of the house.

Our house has an extremely open floor plan, and it just wasn't working. So...I'm starting over. I'm going to start in the breakfast nook, per my MIL's wise suggestion, and do something small and light for those windows.

I will then work my way into the LR and probably do roman shades on the windows of the french door and maybe (MAYBE) something on the arch windows. The DR needs curtains too.

Here are the fabrics that I love. The paisley will be in the LR, the check will be in the breakfast nook, and the tweed and maybe the paisley will be in the DR. These pictures look a little yellow, but they are NOT yellow in person.