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2. Wrap books in shimmery marbleized paper. Available at craft stores, it makes even the fluffiest seaside examine appearance smart. Luxe much?

3. Good lights modify everything. This replacement does not require an electrician: Mount a plug-in sconce to highlight a portrait or your midnight reading. Illuminating!

4. Class up shelves with knobs that wow you. You can change out the pulls yourself in minutes.

5. Visual mishmash out, huge splendor second in! Take down all of the pix in a room and rehang them as one statement-making gallery wall.

7. Paint the ceiling. A.k.a. the 5th wall. Blue is as calming because the sky, silver displays light, jewel tones are bravely bold — and simply may work.

8. Add a bit bling. Have your farmer construct a lamp, table, or chair in gold leaf (or silver, or copper, or steel warm pink).

10. Contain your kitchen. Under-counter swing-out nook garage facilitates preparing a muddle zone — perfect for heavy, hardly ever used pots, or the gathering of Tupperware all of us unavoidably amass.

11. Invest in an extraordinary mattress. Something that receives to sleep with you for years has to be worthy! Stearns & Foster Estate line is cashmere-wrapped for wintry weather, warm temperature and summer time.

12. Make a gap statement. Buy residence numbers with (ahem) character.

13. Find your crowning glory. Hire a contractor to feature crown molding, a chair rail, or wainscoting to a room or two — it is a one-day process with architectural power.

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14. Dress your windows. The Shade Store can set up something from ripple-fold curtains to timber blinds simply 10 days after you order.

15. Add tassels and tiebacks. Or glam up what you have with silken accessories — tassels, as soon as a talisman in opposition to evil spirits, are undying and touchable.

17. When in doubt, move for linen curtains. Restoration Hardware's Belgian linen is beloved, way to sustainably grown flax woven at Belgium's oldest (1858!) mill.

18. Switch up your switches. Screw on elegant new transfer plates and you may lighten your temper on every occasion you input the room.

19. Revive a dated fireplace. Have the brick painted white, stack birch logs at the firebox floor, and buy a warm new hearth-device set.