I am happiest in rooms that need no window coverings.  Our bedroom here is like that.  I can look out the windows day or night and see what there is to see.  That said, there is one room that needs window coverings; my newly converted writing room.  I know this because one of the neighbors commented on how much time I spend in that room!  I found just the thing, I do believe.  It is an adaptation of this:





http://www.shojidesigns.com/portfolio/ashihara.html


The older I get the more I am drawn to clean and simple designs.  Shoji must be part of that transformation.

In traditional Japanese architecture, a shōji (障子) is a door, window or room divider consisting of translucent paper over a frame of wood or bamboo. While washi is the traditional paper, shōji may be made of paper made by modern manufacturing processes; plastic is also in use.

Shōji doors are often designed to slide open, and thus conserve space that would be required by a swinging door. They are used in traditional houses as well as Western-style housing, especially in the washitsu (Japanese-style room). In modern construction, the shōji does not form the exterior surface of the building; it sits inside a sliding glass door or window.

Although the word shōji formerly also applied to the opaque fusuma, the two are now distinct,