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Ways to Hide the Ugly Things in Your Home

By Simone Design Blog @HomeSpire

Poor hygiene and untidiness are the last things that people need in their home. It might affect not only your good image, but also your health. Moreover, it is extremely annoying to look for one thing or another for more than half an hour. This is why regular cleaning and keeping everything in its place are part of our everyday household routines.

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Do you live in an extremely small house or apartment, stuffed with furniture, various electric appliances, and an enormous number of useless objects? Have you been wondering where to put that ugly vase your mother brought you from Japan, so as no one can see it? Well, here are some ideas that you might find useful.

There are many other options to store everything you do not need or find unpleasant to look at, apart from hiding it in the attic. In the first place, you can install drawers all over the place – for example, under the staircase or even under every single stair. Thus, you can put away tools, cables, and all kinds of ugly souvenirs and other trifles. Speaking of drawers, you might put your pets’ dishes in them. As you can see from the picture below, you can open them when your dog or cat needs to be fed and close them when you want your home to look tidier.

Ways to Hide the Ugly Things in Your Home

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If you are tired of the sight of the always tangled computer cables, you can hide them behind a curtain, hanging from your desk. As for your router or modem, you can place those in a nice storing box or in the cover of an old book. Have you noticed that in almost every film, famous people hide their safe behind a hinged painting? Well, you might not have such safe in your home, but you might surely find the idea quite useful. You can hide cracks and holes in the wall or even your TV set and if you do not use it regularly, behind a nice piece of art.

If you find the sight of your refrigerator unpleasant, you can decorate it with a fancy wallpaper or cover it with a black chalkboard paint. To decorate your laundry machine and dryer and make them look a bit more pleasing, you can use black or colorful sticky tape. An original idea is to hide your air conditioner behind a blackboard. Thus, you not only deprive yourself of the sight of this not particularly attractive-looking appliance, but you also provide yourself with surface to write down your daily tasks, shopping lists, etc.

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If you are a keen reader, but you do not have extra space for huge bookshelves, you can install “invisible” ones on your walls. You can find them in any department store or on Ebay. They are extremely cheap, easy to install, and can hold several quite thickish books. It is necessary to clean them regularly because they gain a lot of dust. If you don’t have enough time for that you could always hire a company like TopGardeningServices Ltd.

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If you have a garden and you want to decorate it as well as hide the water pipes and other unsightly objects, you can cover them with some fake rocks. If you consider yourself a bit of an artist, you can make those yourself, if not – well, you can find them in the garden sections of the department stores.

These are only few of the countless ways to put away or hide the things in your home that you find ugly and utterly useless and you do not want to be seen by anyone else. Most of them are easy to install or create by yourself, others are relatively cheap to buy and can be found practically everywhere. It depends on you whether you will buy them on the Internet or from the nearby shop.

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