7. Back your bookcase.
Add some style to a boring bookcase or cabinet by tacking fabric between shelves. Use small tacks or a staple gun and stick the tacks (or staples) right up in the corners. To make your bookcase even more original, raise or lower the shelves so that some shelves only have narrow spaces between them, and others have larger gaps. This allows you to put all different size objects in your bookcase, and creates a unique asymmetry.

Now get on up and start spicing. Your apartment awaits.

After ten years in the fashion industry, Michael Moloney turned his design concepts to homes in 1993. Blending the new and the practical with the timeworn charm of things "not exactly perfect" has been Michael's look from the beginning of his design career. Michael's television credits include Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Clean House, Kitty Bartholomew's You're Home, Designers' Challenge, Christopher Lowell, and Next Door with Katie Brown.


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