Hide that Ugly Thermostat!

Go ahead and guess.  Give up?  Scroll down for the answer.

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This unattractive (but necessary) object:

I know that an interior designer did not plan for this thing to be right there on the wall - in everyone's faces - as they walk into our den. It screamed silently at me every time I entered that room. Is it one way a builder gets back at a pain-in-the-neck customer?

I have to admit that I did not come up with this fabulous camouflage idea on my own. At some point several years ago I saw it online somewhere, before Pinterest, but I can't remember where. It was pure genius, however. Feel free to steal this idea from me, though.

Now I am off to straighten the bow holding the left-side plate. The one I neglected to notice before taking that picture....