Decorate like a musician

Sometimes it's hard to see what's not working in your own space, a bit like you can't proofread your own writing. One way to identify what does and doesn't work in a room is to ask others, who may or may not be willing to tell you. And even if they are, they might not have your same taste.

There's another way to do it yourself while still getting some distance from the fact it's your own house which you see all the time and get desensitized to. You can adapt a technique musicians use to improve their own playing; (I know because I'm married to a musician and, as a result, have met a zillion others). They record themselves and then listen back. Your own variation on this theme can be to take a photo of your room and have a good look at the photo. Yeh, I know! Whose house is that?! It's weird how different it can look!

Anyway, you don't have to be a great photographer to get some very useful information and if you have a digital camera, you get the feedback immediately and can try different things, take another photo, look again, delete the photo, try another way, etc. Enjoy and I hope you have recharageable batteries!