“Make stale
spaces warm
and
comfortable.”

Tips to Try Now

• Remove doors and even door frames to create openness, longer views, more light, and freer traffic flows.
• Create a small courtyard using flagstones and low plantings as an outdoor entry "room." Can you add a welcoming bench too?
• Use book shelves floor to ceiling in almost any room to create coziness, or as room dividers.
• Pull draperies away from your windows on longer curtain rods for more light and spaciousness.
• Tighten up your living room seating for better conversations. Have several movable chairs for various needs. It’s warmer when people are closer to each other.
• Make a window bench with storage underneath and framed with shelves. We like protected "views from the edge," of both indoors and outdoors.
• Add a bar to the edge of your kitchen to keep onlookers out of the way but involved.