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PROTECT YOUR KEEPSAKES AND CLOTHING IN A VERTICAL, SPACE SAVING, MODERN-DAY CEDAR HOPE CHEST

Huntsville, AL – In every household there are items that are treasured family keepsakes. In years gone by, cedar hope chests have been utilized as storage and to protect family heirlooms such as christening gowns, bridal gowns and blankets among other items.

These days hope chests are hard to come by and even harder to find a place for in the house. They are big, cumbersome and in smaller spaces they take away valuable square footage in rooms.

There is a solution that costs less than a new piece of furniture but adds valuable storage space to your already existing floor plan: a cedar closet. Any closet can be transformed into a vertical cedar hope chest just by adding cedar lining to an existing closet space. In addition to a fantastic finished look, cedar offers benefits that most don't realize.

Those benefits include the following:

• Repels and resist moths, roaches, silverfish and mildew
• Provides a wonderful cedar scent
• Safer than mothballs and smells better
• Often found in expensive and older homes
• A great place to store out-of-season clothes

CedarSafe Natural Closet Liner planks and panels are made of 100 percent Aromatic Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) and actually line the walls of the closet. They work with standard metal bars or rods or even custom drawers.

The planks (MSRP: $29.95/box covers 15 square feet of wall space) provide an elegant look to a closet in a master bedroom. It would cost about $360 to line 180-square-feet of wall space with cedar planks. The 4'-by-8' panels (MSRP: $24.95 each) are best for storage areas, secondary closets and attics. It would cost about $150 to line180-square-feet of wall space with cedar panels. Both are do-it-yourself products that require a claw hammer, tri-square, saw and nails or adhesive to install.