Learned a few housing tricks!
This uses the loft glitch ( LINK - Well done tutorial by Alice!)
And the new tricks built on top of that idea I learned from this reddit thread here (ty Norandabrown!) 

So as I learned in that thread–

With the new event shelf, I was excited at possibly having loft stairs using far less item slots, but there was a problem:

BUT as I found out on Reddit, Noranda discovered something special about the merchant walls.

You can actually set them low enough so there’s no gaps! And as a player with a taller character, any little bit or room helps lol

ALSO NOTE since the patch, you can swap out your outer walls freely without destroying your old one!