FInally, finally, the shutters we ordered in November arrived!! So now we can have some privacy! We didnt want to cover over the stained glass so we went with the cafe-style half window option which still gives us privacy because the ground floor is so high up off the ground that no-one can see above the shutter-level. We assume that at some other time in the last 133 years that someone else had put shutters on the windows because you can see where they were attached to the windowframes. The guys who put the shutters up used the same holes which was cool. The leather pad on the window seat was made by the same Italian craftsman who restored the furniture.