Oh decorating, how I love loathe you!

Remember when I said I could get the basics done.  The paint, the larger pieces of furniture...you know...the boring, easy stuff?  The accessorizing... not so much!

So the problem I'm dealing with is curtains.  Or, lack of curtains.  I need some curtains.  When we moved in there were some funky, nasty, straight from the '70's curtains with sheers.  We tore down the heavy curtains immediately and lived with just sheers until I could no longer stand it.  I wanted matchstick blinds with curtains.  After we scraped the shiny, striped, straight from the '70's wallpaper off and painted I nabbed some cheapo matchstick blinds from Menards to "tide us over".  They were literally $7.  They are fabulous, no?  I realize that they are way to small for the windows...but it was just "for now", remember?  Two years later I still cannot figure out what to do here.  Pathetic, I know.

Sorry, bad picture....but you can see what I'm talking about...

I've decided to make this my next goal.  I should be able to find something to work here, yes?  So I've begun my hunt.  I love the curtains in the family room on this blog.  It was featured on YHL on their last house crashing.  I was so stoked because they said the panels were JCPenny and I thought maybe they'd work...probably too yellow...but definitely discontinued! so it didn't matter anyway.

So here are two I'm considering.  Feedback please.  Our walls are close to the blue color on the bottom there and our couch is a chocolate brown {scroll up and check it out}...so, I was considering either the pebble or latte...but, maybe too modern looking?

Then, I'm liking these too.  They are similar to the striped ones I liked in that one family room...but, could be too shiny looking, therefore more formal...I cannot tell for sure.

So, what do you think?  Am I way off?  Too boring?  Too ugly?  On track?  Really cool :)?  

I'm scared... :)