Is there any alternative to blinds?

[blobby10]

Let me start by admitting to NO interior design skills, not aesthetic appreciations or colour styling for home decoration. Not for clothes either but thats another thread!
Been in my house for 4 years - when I moved in I chose Roman blinds on the living room and master bedroom bay windows as I didn't want to block off the entire bay (not just space, there are radiators there too!) with floor length curtains but also don't want curtain tracks and pelmets. I put decorative curtains down the side of each bay but the predominant look is the natural colour blinds. Just recently decided that I really don't like the blinds and on one or two the threads keep snapping so they are lopsided,
Are there any modern alternatives? I love drawing the curtains closed rather than dropping the blinds. Has some very clever person invented a curtain pole shaped to a bay window yet? Has someone designed curtain tracks that don't need pelmets to cover up the hooks?

Shutters

If you put the curtain hooks lower down on the heading tape, the top of the curtains will hide the track

You can definitely get curtain poles for bay windows

What about voiles inside the window, instead of the blind?

Have a look at curtain pole store. If you email them a picture of your bay, they will tell you which pole you need

We had a curtain pole in a bay in our last house. Think it was from Dunelm.
This one has a square bay, so it has roman blinds.

Yes, you can get bay window blinds in Dunelm. They are Swish brand. You bend them to for the window. Our bay is massive so we got two and they go go from the middle to the end. You can see the track when the curtain is open but you can see curtain poles too.

I have bendy Swish curtain tracks that run around the curve of the bay. They cost less than curtain poles and are much stronger than they look. They are covered by the curtains and blend into the white panelling behind.

Thanks everyone - will head to dunelm and see what I can find 😀😀

I have a bendy track fixed to the top of the window surround. It’s almost at the ceiling and just blends in to that. Very unobtrusive. And when closed the curtains cover it completely. The radiator is floor mounted and set forward a couple of inches so the curtains close behind it (single central wall stay).