DR has 2 small windows flanking a door. Between the bay shape and the porch roof, little light actually makes it beyond the alcove.
In good weather with long hours of daylight I am happy with the scarves you see and nothing else. If the black glass bothers me at night I turn on the white Christmas lights on the porch. This is an every day room even though it is the formal dining room. I don't want it to feel at all untouchable.

But the good weather is over and it's dark early - very early; we are at the eastern edge of our timezone. We won't open the door until spring. I want to warm up the tone in the room. The room is very small, and the windows are small.
The picture shows a long, trim colored panel on the left, and, on the right, some shutters. I have glass for the shutters -- one panel is propped up.

1. Apron length, trim-colored panels on the windows. I like the idea of short panels because everything is so tiny. It's not even easy to manuever around to clean. But what do I put on the door?
Would it look off to have trim-colored panels on the windows and something else on the door? What?

2. Shutters on the lower window. With this - use existing colored glass inserts? Get new glass inserts? Shutters should be trim color/an accent color?
Use fabric inserts? With shutters, would short panels (long enough to cover the top of the window and meet the shutter) look good? I'm thinking trim-colored raw silk tab tops -- would want them to be full at the bottom, billowing out where they meet the shutters.

I'm liking this option best, but the details escape me and I still have no idea how to coordinate the door.

3. I could use a single, longer panel on each window pulled to the side, but that seems to make the door even more the center of attention and I don't know what to do with the door. And I don't want to emphasize the door in the winter.

I'm leaning toward a cream color raw silk, or a nice polished cotton for fabric. The living room has cream/trimcolored colored linen panels. They are long and droopy on taller windows. This room seems to call for something with more body and less scale, albeit in a small home cohesiveness from room to room is very important. But this IS a different room.....

The available space is the space within the alcove. That's why I'd like a fabric that comes into the room a bit, like a petticoat. Does raw silk have the body to do this? Would I have to have some netting or something sewn into the bottom half of the curtain to avoid droop?

Thanks for any thoughts you care to share.

(edited to correct photo)

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