You might be familiar with the idea of the sink skirt, but the shelf skirt is something a bit less common. But while it’s not something you see every day, it’s a recurring design concept I’ve come across in interior designers’ projects that I feel is overlooked.
It does double duty — yes, it brings a sense of softness to your shelving ideas in a way that’s hard to replicate, as well as different textures of fabric, color, and (if you so desire) pattern, but it’s also an ingenious way to add some out-of-sight storage to a space, and make use of those awkward, underutilized spots lower to the floor.
