A little pricey than most of our DIY projects for what they do, but gorgeous, and inexpensive compared to what you’d pay to have someone else custom make them, let us present, Apartment Therapy’s “How to Make your own Rice Paper Roller Shades”. Rice paper provides a vibrant mute on sunlight and only gets more dazzling as it bleaches with age - and this set lasted ten years before the paper needed to be replaced (whereupon it could be composted, natch). $85 USD per shade. [GT]

Apartment Therapy’s “How to Make your own Rice Paper Roller Shades” [via Ecofriend]

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