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overcoming decorating inertia The list got longer and longer, disintegrating into variations on the theme of "this room sucks!" as I became more and more disheartened by the fact that there was just so much that was wrong with it. Worse yet, many of the problems seemed built-in to the space itself. How do you make space when there just plain isn’t any? How do you make an office look homey? Damned if I knew. It seemed too daunting, too hard, too impossible to make this room look good. So I took the easy way out: I procrastinated. I threw up my hands in disgust, grabbed my boy and my pocketbook, and decided to cure my unhappiness with the one aspect of home decorating that always puts a smile on my face -- secondhand shopping. Sure, we didn’t need more stuff, but there’s always the prospect of finding better stuff – at good prices of course -- which always makes the treasure-hunting seem worthwhile. So we hit the estate sales, with no intentions to buy; we didn’t even have much cash in our wallets. And it’s at these times, when you least expect it, that you stumbled across the most marvelous things. Like a mint-condition mid-century modern sleek walnut daybed. For $100. Which we couldn’t live without. (Fortunately, I had a checkbook on me.)
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