I have a plain white bookcase which ended up in the living room. It had been in the study/guest room but had to come out once the bed went in. Since it houses folders, manuals, magazine and bankers boxes plus a wire basket of padded envelopes it wasn't too pretty and for a while I had a throw over it.
This is quite a nice idea if you have a bookcase like this storing fabric which you want to protect from the light, though you might want to use something a little thicker than the cotton curtain lining fabric I have used here. You could also have pretty items on the higher shelves and have a curtain just for the lower shelves, used to store plainer things.
I overlocked the fabric all the way round the edge, stitched a narrow hem up each side and a slightly deeper one at the bottom. The top has a 3" casing with a row of stitching 1/2" from the top. The top row of stitching creates a little ruffle above the pole to close the gap at the top.
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I should do this in my sewing room. My fabric is stashed in bins, and what is out of sight is out of mind. If I put fabric on the shelves, I could just take a peek from time to time to get inspired for what to sew next.
Good idea. I did something similar a few years ago to hide a messy set of shelves that ran over the stairs... very useful to have deep shelves in a tiny house but ended up full of random stuff and the mess annoyed me hugely every time I walked past. Much less annoying when the mess couldn't be seen. :)
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