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"Have you ever found yourself at the point where you look around your house and feel total dissatisfaction with just about everything? You desperately want to change the color of the paint and you somehow can&amp;#039;t believe that you actually picked that sofa? The curtains seem old and you find yourself fantasizing about beautiful, new custom window treatments and a new dining room table? I&amp;#039;m there. I don&amp;#039;t know if I&amp;#039;m just going through a phase of general restlessness, but for the last few weeks or so, all I want is change, change and more change. I want to redo the landscape, replace the front steps, gut my kitchen and redo my daughter&amp;#039;s bedroom. Why? I don&amp;#039;t know, but I&amp;#039;m suddenly pouring through home magazines and feeling desperate to spend a small fortune and do it all. Only problem is, I don&amp;#039;t have a small fortune. Or any fortune for that matter. So the rooms seem even drearier than they are (they really aren&amp;#039;t) because I know that nothing&amp;#039;s going to change for awhile. So what can I do to perk up the place without affecting my budget? I&amp;#039;ve been staring around my living room for weeks now while watching television with my kids and wondering just what the answer is to that question. The way I look at it, I have two options: 1. Max out my credit cards to buy new furniture, paint, window treatments and flowers for outside and then have to write a &amp;quot;Blog of Shame&amp;quot; 2. Make small, inexpensive changes that will bring some new life to my little house AND allow me to sleep well at night because I didn&amp;#039;t break the bank. Yes, I know. I will choose option two. But I really need some ideas here. Yes, I can patch up the tennis ball-sized hole in the wall that Henry, my Labradoodle, made one day while I was grocery shopping. That&amp;#039;s been driving me crazy and would give me huge satisfaction. I suppose I could buy some annuals for next to nothing and brighten up the yard. But beyond that, my imagination has seemed to fizzle out like the shine on my hardwood floors. What to do? Where to start? How do you perk up your home for little to no cost? Will you share your ideas with me? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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