Clever Ways to Hide Your Air Conditioning Unit

Clever Ways to Hide Your Air Conditioning Unit
pFiled under: a href="http://www.diylife.com/category/home-decor/" rel="tag"home decor/a, a href="http://www.diylife.com/category/weekend/" rel="tag"weekend projects/a, a href="http://www.diylife.com/category/ventilation/" rel="tag"ventilation/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frosworld/2651394035/"img alt="Box air conditioning unit in a window, as viewed from inside. From randyr.net, Flickr." hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.diylife.com/media/2008/07/aircond.jpg" vspace="4" border="0" //abr //div pstrongBy Diane Rixon/strong/p pThe box air-conditioning unit is a necessary evil for many apartment dwellers. (Those of you about to head off to college, take note!) These things come with a few big cons: they are noisy, they are unsightly, they block the view out of your a href="http://www.diylife.com/tag/window/"window/a, and they are a pain in the neck to install and uninstall.br /br /At least the unsightliness factor is something you can fix! Here are a few a href="http://nymag.com/homedesign/features/48311/"suggestions for hiding your air conditioning unit/a from a href="http://nymag.com"emNew York Magazine/em/a: br /br //p ul liDecorate it with something pretty like wallpaper scraps. /li liBuild a decorative a href="http://www.diylife.com/tag/cabinet/"cabinet/a around it, but be careful not to block air flow. /li liDisguise it from view with a sheer curtain. /li liHide it with a screen. /li liCover it with artwork and frame it. /li /ul [via a href="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/blogging/5-ways-to-hide-your-air-conditionervia-new-york-magazine-05"Apartment Therapy/a]p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href="http://www.diylife.com/2009/06/22/clever-ways-to-hide-your-air-conditioning-unit/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.diylife.com/forward/19070686/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=amp;fc=1amp;url=http://www.diylife.com/2009/06/22/clever-ways-to-hide-your-air-conditioning-unit/" title="Linking Blogs"Linkingnbsp;Blogs/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.diylife.com/2009/06/22/clever-ways-to-hide-your-air-conditioning-unit/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/433reUvfkdoa7c19b_4yEaWbCjE/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/433reUvfkdoa7c19b_4yEaWbCjE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/433reUvfkdoa7c19b_4yEaWbCjE/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/433reUvfkdoa7c19b_4yEaWbCjE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/diylife/~4/9f0T4n4b3r4" height="1" width="1"/