This post is a collation of budget-friendly ideas on how to cover open shelves for storage in your home and hide the clutter. Summer is the time when a lot of families in transferable jobs move before the next school session starts. Someone reached out to me on Facebook asking for suggestions of how to hide open shelves in a rental home. When I thought hard, I realized, this was not an isolated issue to just rental homes. People in permanent homes face this issue, too. As I’m writing this post, I look straight into a rack of open shelves beneath our staircase that is a sea of clutter with everything from old newspapers to tool box and extra gifts. Lesser said about the mess, the better. No, I’m not going to share a picture of it. The simpler way out would have been to install a door to conceal the…
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