Hide The Eyesore Of A Cluttered Room With A Glass Solution From Joanna Gaines

Despite being a public figure, Joanna Gaines likes to keep things about her home life private. In fact, she's shared some clever and noteworthy ways of adding privacy to a home via her shows and social media over the years. One of them is using reeded glass instead of the standard transparent flat panel. As a decorative, textured glass with a hollowed-out, inward look, reeded glass provides blurred visibility through its vertical, shallow grooves. What's good about this is that apart from providing privacy, it also hides any eyesore from a cluttered room through its distorted view. So, if you want to block off a certain room that almost always gets messy with everyday use, you can rely on this type of glass to do that for you.

Reeded glass basically allows light to pass through while maintaining privacy on either side. This is because the patterned structure of the panel itself gently distorts the view, causing anyone behind or in front of the glass to only see silhouettes of what's on the opposite side. While it's not clear when the "Fixer Upper" star's proclivity for reeded glass started, it's undeniable how she chooses this over other types of glass material a lot of the time. She even strongly recommends it for use in sleek sliding glass doors to achieve privacy without curtains and blinds. 

When used as a sliding or a standard glass door, reeded glass provides a seamless transition between spaces. Since it allows light to filter through, the rooms on either side of the glass panel remain bright without having to expose the full view of what's behind the door. The same is true for when you use reeded glass on the doors of kitchen cabinetry. It will allow the light to diffuse to the inside of the cupboard, but it will still mostly hide whatever it is that's inside — the perfect solution for when you don't want guests to see the untidy teacups and plates that you stashed too quickly after hosting a soiree.

Beyond distorting the view and allowing light in, reeded glass, the material at the center of the Art Deco glass design trend, is also able to resist fingerprints and smudges. Its textured surface readily conceals these blemishes, making it easier to maintain than other glass materials and a practical option for high-traffic areas in the house. Finally, one lesser-known advantage of reeded glass is how it improves the acoustics in a room. Its texture helps reduce noise by absorbing vibration energy, making it a good choice for offices and other spaces where sound privacy is important.