How to Hide Eyesores in Your Home

No matter how lovingly maintained, updated, or stylish, every home has “blemishes” – those certain little quirks in architecture, those items you use daily but wish you could hide, and other little imperfections people often try to ignore.

Wouldn’t it be nice if there were some ways to disguise them? Well, here are 10 ideas to help you do just that.

1. Add a touch of elegance to a room while hiding unattractive drapery rods or blind hardware by adding a cornice to the windows.

2. Conceal your internet router by placing it in a hollowed out, hard-cover bock or decorative box.

3. Have too many shoes and not enough places to put them? You can quickly and easily create draws in the kickboard area of lower stairs.

4. Hang a solid or pretty patterned drop cloth behind your desk to hide that tangled mess of wires and cords.

5. Turn a low drawer in your kitchen cabinet or mudroom area into a pet feeding station.

6. Encase basement support poles and finish off the top and bottom with molding to make them look like stately columns.

7. Add a custom look and seamlessly transition your kitchen backsplash into the wall area with a wooden shelf bracket.

8. This one’s a little labor and time intensive, but you can scrape off that dated-looking “popcorn” off your ceiling. Just make sure it doesn’t contain asbestos before getting started.

9. Suspend decorative lattice covers from your home office or basement ceiling to hide florescent lights.

10. Hide unsightly plumbing pipes in your basement with mini-blinds, drapes, or even painted pegboard.

Of course, then there are those items that simply can’t be hidden. You know, like a dated and beaten up kitchen sink and faucets. If it’s time for a plumbing update or two in your home, contact Your 1 Plumber for the products and installation service you need to make that bold new statement you have in mind.