How would you "dress" this window?

[Pannacotta]

We have a large square bay in our DSs' room, made up of 5 individual windows.
The windows are very tall sashes (around 2m height) and don't have the nicest of views...
It needs to be practical and child proof, DSs are 5 and 3.

Am struggling to decide what to use.
The options are roman blinds (plus something to cover the lower half of the windows to hide the view) or wooden venetians or shutters which look good and would blur the view, but are a bugger to clean (am no domestic goodess).

Any suggestions?

TIA

I have roman blinds in my kids rooms and my kids have put chocolatey fingers all over them and have also pulled out all the rods and the "balls" off the winding mechanism.During our summer holiday i have asked the curtain lady to come and clean all the blinds in the house and repair them and put back up before we return.I have had wooden venetians and i don't think i ever cleaned them.But some of the rods were snapped off by my kids![maybe a reflection of my lack of housekeeping skills!].Shutters sound very kidproof to me surely.

Thanks teta, good point about the blinds, DS2 is very mucky (a bit feral really) so I need to get something which he can't ruin. He has crayoned/scribbled over most of the walls in the house, luckily we are renovating so no decorating has been done yet!

Shutters prob are the best option, also the most expensive, which is partly why I am dithering!

Can't you buy special shutter cleaning widgets?

But TBH, if your DS2 is at the mucky stage, I'd put up something temporarily and then sort something new out when he's older.

what about putting some of that sticky plasticy stuff on the window to blur the view...you can get stained glass type effect, i'm sure.

i'd be inclined to use "normal" curtains and at bed time close the bay off iykwim...it'll be much cheaper to do now while he's mucky and as he gets older, then you might like to re do his room and get some roman blinds made to fit....

this kind of thing

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happy little boy?!

last one that!!!

Thanks, yes we could wait until DS2 is older and less messy and leave the existing sill length curtains for now.

I do like window film but it is a bit bathroom-y I think (we have it in our loo and shower room).

Cant really close off the bay with normal curtains as this would mean losing a large chunk of the room - it's a large walk-in bay.

Will have to think on it some more...

what about this company for films - you dont need to go for childrens patterns www.purlfrost.com/kids-room.php

What about having some nice window boxes made to make the view more pleasant?

Automatic metal curtain rail and have the mechanism finished higher so the children cant reach. - what I have done.

Roman blinds once again have the chain shortened so that little fingers can reach but agree that these are more difficult to wash at least curtains can be dry cleaned.

There may be roller blinds that have an industrial finish so they can be wipped clean. I'm sure these have moved on since the 80's with fab designs.