I like sheers. They're really pretty. My problem with sheers is the same as it is with many otherwise attractive window treatments...you can see through them. It seems that from the absolutely bare window, adorned only with a painted border and a vase of flowers to the valance or swaf only to the beads and bangles to some of the elaborate sheer ensembles, there is no provision for privacy. Have we become a nation of exhibitionists? You can't very well hide a shade or blind in some of these arrangements either.
OH, I agree! My sheer panels are in the middle. I have solid drapes on each side. The window is about 72" wide. I also have mini blinds behind the sheer panels. They let light in, but can't see in.
The windows in that picture without drapes are probably on the 70th floor. LOL! I know, I've lived in apts where I have to have the curtains tightly closed from perverts!
I live in the suburbs, where peeping toms flourish. Believe me, I've checked, you can't see through mine unless someone stands right up close to the window and then hopefully another neighbor would see them and they'd get scratched from my rose bushes.
I can't walk around in the nude anyway because I live with two young men. LOL!