Home Improvement—in the Sense of Better Living Conditions—with Better Furniture
Considering overall quality of life-and not purely investment or resale value for our homes-then home improvement can also be greatly aided by simply getting better furniture. It's amazing, sometimes, the furniture that people live with, almost as if they've forgotten about it, or forgotten that it is possible to replace it! Hearing someone in a store talk about furniture from Fashion for Home the other day inspired me to have a look around for a few new pieces of furniture, like these 2 seater sofas, for example. My husband's having a hard time getting his head around it, but what I found was important was for him to actually envision the pieces in the spaces in our home. I moved some of our existing furniture out of the way, and showed him a few pictures of possible furnishings and printed out the pictures. Granted, they were small, but as he held them in different spaces, he was able to get a better grasp of the possibilities and saw the definite improvement that could come of replacing some of our furniture. Now he's more engaged in the selection process and is looking forward to it about as much as I am. To me, that's overall a big improvement! So it can be important to broaden our sense of what home improvement is.