If you find one a vintage medicine cabinet would be nice. Just remove the back

A nice mirror oval or rectangle would be good then put up a row of coat hooks beside it ( 1 above the thermostat) so a lovely coat could always obscure it from view but it is easily accessable :)

I don't know about blocking the thermostat, its supposed to maintain the room's temperature and can't do that if it blocked.

Rather than block the thermostat - why not just choose a pair of matching rectangular mirrors and hang them one on either side?

Hmm, good point @labchick.

I have an old tambourine that I picked up in an Egyptian bazaar hanging over mine. It doesn't seem to make a difference in maintaining the temperature.

I think as long as there is adequate airflow from the room to the thermostat, like with the tambourine, the temperature at the thermostat should be the same as the average air temperature in the room. Just don't block off the airflow.

An assortment of vintage mirrors and vintage hand mirrors could hang in a little grouping there, they wouldn't hide it but it would be less noticeable.

I have a similar problem (we live in military housing which is synonymous with bad design).

Maybe a small table pushed to the far corner, with a mirror centered over it, so the thermostat is to the left of the mirror. Then put a chair next to the table.

Otherwise, hang a rack of pegs above the height of the thermostat and always have a coat or hat conveniently hanging over it.

you could do a homemade charging station/key/mail/coat rack with a hole cut for the thermostat in it.

I just heard a story in my office today of a building my coworker used to work in where it was freezing (people wearing hats and gloves). Turned out the guy in the corner office had put a bookshelf in front of the thermostat so it was measuring the trapped air in the pocket (which was warm) and freeeeeeezing the place with cooling.

How much do you suppose it'd cost to hire an electrician to move it a few feet to the left or right? Down the line, when you vacate the apartment, I highly doubt the change would be noticed, let cause an objection from the landlord.

You can also put a picture ledge below it and lean pictures or mirrors over it? Would that still block the air flow?

That wall looks super barren anyway. I would do some grouped artwork and photographs. Then put a frame around that thermostat. Tada.

Just have it moved over a bit. That's the most obvious solution!

The idea of covering it with a mirror is still a good one. Just drill a series of holes on the top and bottom to allow for air flow, and you should be golden.

I solved the same problem by using this frame riser from Pottery Barn. I made a gallery wall, but hanging a mirror or single piece of art would work well too. It allows for air circulation and it's easy to remove the frame to access the thermostat.

http://www.potterybarn.com/products/frame-riser/?pkey=x|4|1||10|riser||0&cm_src=SCH

bepsf - I must agree since I also see labchick's point. Yes it's not the best place the builder could have put it, but covering it up doesn't help it regulate the temperature either.

Instead of paying to get it moved and hoping to not make the landlord mad, I'd probably go with Sunnydark's suggestion.

That's what I did, hung a frame around it, within a grouping. Most people don't even notice, and when they do, they always smile.

We had the same problem, in almost the same exact position. We ended up putting a 4x4 Ikea Expedit shelf there. The thermostat fit in one of the squares (so it wasn't blocked from air flow) and the shelf provided a place to put a bowl for keys and we hung a mirror on the outside of the shelf (it blocked a few squares, but we just used it as hidden storage).

I think Sunnydark has the right idea.

My first year in college our dorm's floor was cold all winter. We'd call maintenance to complain, they'd send a security officer over to check it out, he'd come in from the cold and say "feels good to me" and leave. The last week of the year when everyone was packing up, the room next to mine realized they were the ones that had the thermostat for the floor - and that they'd had their mini fridge (with warm coils on the back) in front of the thermostat all year.

Don't cover a thermostat - it serves a purpose. Often its location, even if inconvenient for design, serves a purpose as well - to accurately monitor the room temperature at a normal height and not in a corner.

Exactly. An option I like better than the mirror would be a painting on a hinge. You can choose something you love and it would be lighter.

sunnydark had the exact same idea i was planning to offer. group frames above whatever landing strip table you put there. take the glass out of a small frame and make that thermostat a little piece of kitchsy art. even include a framed mirror for the final check before leaving the house.

I agree with AZKathy - I think the best (and most stylish) way of making a thermostat blend into the wall decor is to hang a frame around it (not cover it)...let the thermostat be a framed piece of art itself! It's a clever idea that everyone will love.

I hung a collection of feather masks over my wall of smoke detector / heater thermostat / cooler thermostat. Masks don't block air flow the way mirrors do.

That's not such a bad spot for it. It could be worse. What about when the builders put it on the other side of the wall the oven is in. We have a built-in double oven with the thermostat built onto the back of it.