This tip is actually free: Rearrange your furniture. Right now! Go! Okay wait. Read this first.
I have great memories of my mom and I becoming the “Furniture Fairies” and rearranging furniture in our house. And to this day, I believe it’s a great way to spruce up a room! Sometimes we get too comfortable with our furniture and become “stuck”. Try to look at your room objectively, and see what’s not working. Do you have a chair nobody sits in? Try it in a different place! Is all your furniture against walls? Angle it! Is your room too crowded? Move a chair or a table to a different room! Rearranging furniture not only refreshes a new room, but it can also keep the wear and tear more evenly spread out! Clap if you believe in (furniture) fairies!
Okay, NOW go rearrange!
I used to love doing this, too, until 1) my husband got fed up with running into the rearranged furniture in the middle of the night and 2) my children’s Montessori teacher told me it would make them insecure. But since you are most UNinsecure person I know, then maybe she was plain wrong, and I can start rearranging the furniture again. Sorry, Paul …
Do it! Do it!