I bought some white cutwork curtains that cover the top third of the upper window, and have pull-shades to regulate incoming light, but wanted something more. When the WHOLE family is here for the holidays, my sewing room becomes a spare bedroom and there is a definite need for privacy. The pull-shades are white and some family members don't feel enough privacy is there with the white shades. SO:
I bought some inexpensive cloth pull-shades. Then I pieced together (for each of the three windows) 12 pieced quilt blocks with white sashing and borders of the same width as the sashing. Then I ironed a "thin-ish" fusible fleece to the back of the "quilt" and then stitched the "quilt" to the pull shade. When one or two or all of them are pulled down, it's definitely private and actually looks like a big wall quilt with the white molding between the windows looking like the white sashing and borders. I got rid of the cutwork curtains and now have a nice pop of color in the room.