Dressing a bay window without losing view of garden

[CatNamedEaster]

We can't agree on what do with our lounge bay window. The main panel of glass is 2m wide x 1.5m high and because the window sill is low down it gives a great view of the garden so I don't want to lose that by having shutters or blinds.
We need something other than the curtains though. I know someone who had film attached to their window that makes it very hard to see in from outside but doesn't cut down the light levels at all so that looks like a good option.
Husband wants shutters though. I just don't know why I'd want to have a view and light cut up into about a hundred sections of wood, and if I want to open them up they will intrude weirdly into the room (because they won't open all the way up to lay flat against the wall, they will stick out into the room if you see what I mean).
Has anyone got shutters and can convince me they don't cut light and views (or look weird when they are opened up) or had that film installed who can convince the husband that it works really well?

ThanksItHasPockets yes I like that, I think it's looking like either that or the window film as every other option has one of us saying NO WAY .

You can see right into our living room without them (small front garden) and passers-by do routinely glance in, also I don't like people at the front door being able to see right in while they stand there for security reasons. We went for narrow white venetian blinds for the same reason, we have shallow windowsills (sash windows) and shutters would stick out at the sides when open. So you can lift the blinds all the way up or half up, have them closed or open. During the day if we're not in there we leave them down but open. When they are fully up they only cover the top 6" or so of the window so don't block the view or much of the light. They are great on sunny mornings too as you can have them half down to block the sun from getting in your eyes but still see out.

The privacy film doesn't block the light but it does mean you can't see out - everything is blurred, basically. We have it on the lower window to stop DDog barking, but we have a floor to ceiling picture window in a 70s house.

What about those cafe blinds that go from the bottom to top? I guess it depends where DH thinks people can see in.

Timorous Beasties do some absolutely gorgeous lace curtain fabrics like this birch branch one:
www.timorousbeasties.com/shop/view-product/birch-wood-lace-fabric?item=4813

But if you’ve got a thirty foot garden out the front between you and people walking past, surely the answer is plants? A hedge, tall shrubs, wafty grasses (not pampas ) etc?

Anything but hideous vertical blinds! Every bloody house in my close has them and they look awful, really oppressive and prison like.
You can get really beautiful ‘nets’ from traditional lace designs to very modern, I have them because my front window is 12ft wide and my house is angled so all cars are pointing towards my window on entering the close. Mine are the linen look ones you get in good hotels.

I would try to do without anything in the day given the size of your front garden and the nice view out.
I have shutters upstairs, put in to soften an ugly view and film in a bathroom which gives privacy but blocks both light and view.
Shutters and venetians are also a bugger to dust....