- 1). Place your storage crate--or group several storage crates together--in the middle of the room. Note that if you group several crates together they must all be the same height. You can group them into almost any shape to form the base structure for a table.
- 2). Put a piece of plywood or very stiff, thick cardboard across the top of the storage crates. Ideally, it should extend about an inch past each side of the crates. If the crates all have matching sturdy lids with flat tops, you can skip this step.
- 3). Cover the crates and the plywood or cardboard on top of them, if present, with a piece of cloth, a blanket or a tablecloth. The cloth/blanket/tablecloth should be wide enough to drape all the way down to the floor on all sides of the crate formation. If the formation is too wide to cover with just one piece of cloth, place another piece of cloth perpendicular to the first one, so that all sides are covered.
- 4). Follow a similar procedure if you'd like to hide your crates in other parts of the room; just tuck them away, place something solid over the top of them if they don't have a lid, and cover them with an attractive cloth, tablecloth or blanket. A long line of crates against the wall, covered with a nice blanket, make a nice bench for visitors to sit on. When you want something from the crates, all you have to do is lift the lid(s) and the blanket away.
- 5). Another way to conceal your storage crates--without having to cover them up--is to save one corner or side of the closet for storage crates only. Stack them up against the wall then hang a sheet, a light blanket, a sarong or a strip of pretty cloth in front of them as a curtain. You can even use a shower curtain for this if you like. Depending on the shape of your closet, you can hang the fabric from a shower curtain rod tensioned between the walls, or you may need to drive a nail into each side of the enclosure, angled 45-degrees down, and suspend a string between the nails. Drape a fold of the fabric you're hanging over the strings and use safety pins to pin it in place. If your fabric is very heavy, you'll need to make sure the nails you pounded go into wall studs.
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