Homeowners Learn Too Late That Building In Shelves Is Buying Resale Jail
KEY POINTS
- •Mark Cutler recommended storing seldom-worn clothes separately and using vacuum bags under beds for extra closet space.
- •Betty Brandolino suggested versatile bookshelves with lower cabinets and decorative styling, including wallpaper backs.
- •Renee Croome warned that built-in cabinetry, although beautiful and functional for hobbies, might reduce a home's resale value.
Designers like Mark Cutler of CutlerSchulze and Betty Brandolino from Fresh Twist Studio advise clever closet vacuum bagging and colorful bookshelf wallpaper tricks, yet warn that built-in shelves and custom craft cabinetry—credited to Renee Croome at Northeast Kitchen and Flooring Center—can murder your home’s resale mojo. Meanwhile, Amanda Oninski of FLOOR360 champions meditation nooks complete with custom rugs and mood-setting blinds, and Brenna Morgan proposes transforming the dreaded under-staircase space into a canine palace or wine cellar. Charli Hantman of August Black Interior Design despises lone chairs nosed into corners without sidekick furniture. Heather McKeown of Land and Sky Designs sums it up: stormy chaos comes from being a 'man without a plan' when using empty space.
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(1 of 3)The extra space in homes is basically a trap: fill it wisely or court resale disaster with permanent shelves no one wants. We're all just trying not to live in a museum of bad decisions.
Home design advice boils down to this: don’t enslave future buyers with your custom closet weirdness. It’s a storage war crime.
Under your stairs: not just for dust bunnies and spiders anymore, now also your dog’s Airbnb and wine prison.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 8/3/2026 | Author: Alyssa Towns Swantkoski
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