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However perfect your home’s décor there’ll always be one element causing you to struggle with the aesthetic: homes have to be lived in.
How a home is designed and decorated is one thing, but the day to day requirements of life are another. Finding space for everything can be difficult, let alone hiding unsightly items. Besides, we can't always hide ugly items away because if we need them every day that’s just not practical.
Today we’ll be guiding you through ways in which you can hide permanent eyesores in your home with a few simple tricks that you can do yourself, so let’s say goodbye to those ugly items!
Bags and shoes lying around the hallway don’t look good, but it’s hard to find a place to store these items that you use every day. A solution can be found in creating some sneaky under-stair storage to house your sneakers.
Bikes are brilliant: they can cut your transport costs, keep you fit and help the environment. However, the can be a pain to store; particularly for people living in city apartments. Without a safe place to store them outside they clutter up the place and create quite the eyesore. Instead, buy or build a better way to store them, like this storage unit by carpenters, Treesaurus.
Filling all the plugs in your home with a plethora of charging appliances can be unsightly, but sadly it’s difficult to find a solution.
Keep a multi-outlet power strip concealed in a specially allocated drawer with the wire leading to the socket hidden at the back. That way you can charge your phone and other appliances out of sight.
Cluttered, unsightly clothes storage can be easily concealed by hanging a curtain to cover the eyesore area.
Its’ essential that we have easy access to our bins, but they’re certainly not very nice to look at. Place the bin in a pull out cupboard or attach a small bin to the inside of the cupboard drawer for easy access that's out of sight.
If you have unsightly exposed pipes in your bathroom, or perhaps a vent you would like covered, then large, leafy plants can provide a simple solution. Just place plants with a lot of foliage in front of the offending area.
Computer accessories in your study may be essential, but not necessarily attractive to look at. Tidy up the space by hiding printers in cabinets or modified drawers that still allow them to be used. The same goes for your router – it can easily be concealed in a cabinet or behind a few books.
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