In normal times, if you’ve really had it with where you live, if there are too many of you and not enough of your home, you move. But with soaring interest rates, higher mortgage payments, punishing rents and whatnot, you can’t move. So in other times, perhaps you’d paint the walls, or throw out old stuff and buy new stuff, but these are choppy waters: in an ideal world, you could create miraculous change on zero pounds.
So what will it take to make you fall back in love with your environment? Primping, idiot: improving the overall look of your home with stuff you already own, by moving it about and maybe dusting it. It’s the interiors version of a date night: small, even minute acts of care and adjustment that flatter the perspective.
