Final pictures of the living room area

looking toward the kitchen and dining room:from the sliding doors, looking into the room:
looking from the dining room:
I really sweated over these curtains, trying to find just the right color and fabric. I wanted some kind of nubby silk, but that would have cost thousands for all these windows, on top of the couple thousands it took to get the solar shades up. So these are Ikea curtains, $30 a pair, with 50" wide panels so I only needed about 9 pairs to get decent coverage. The ceiling-mounted rods were a really juicy find - 10' wide that could go out to about 15', on clearance from JC Penney for $13. I had to make up for it with the specialty hooks with little clamps to hold the panels costing about $30 per pair of panels. So that would put the total at about $700 for nearly 30' of windows.

looking toward the sliding doors and deck - showing the remainders of the huge snow we had in January and February. I brought the patio furniture back out to the deck, but still had to wait several days before i could arrange it and put up the umbrella.