Besides a fresh coat of paint on the walls, minimally inspired windows shades are the first thing you should invest in to get your house or room looking, well, minimal.

Best Home Fashion, the maker of these flat linen window shades offers four different colors and plenty of sizes to meet your homes needs (listed below). These shades have two features that a minimalist’s shades should not be without. The first is a single draw cord that revolves (doesn’t pull to become longer like traditional blinds), which is mounted to the vertical window frame. The second is the roller cassette itself, which rolls the linen window shades up, ensuring that they will always come down unwrinkled and flat. These features ensure that your windows will look clutter free.

The linen on these shades is thick enough to provide privacy, but not so much that all light is blocked. The lighter colored shades will let a bit more softly defused sunlight in.

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