What a difference a change can make. When we moved into the place we live now almost exactly one year ago, we failed to take into consideration that most of the windows faced EAST ...meaning very little light comes into any room but my upstairs office. As such, our living room, which spacially is the best place to hang out, has been a kind of depressing room, as evidenced below:













We've of course since put furniture in it, but it still had that dark and dreary pall, even at Christmas:



















But then we bought one good lamp and moved one little piece of furniture and voila, a much happier room: