Another thing worth mentioning: a carpet (depending on what the floor currently looks like). I have no particular thoughts on throw rugs, but if your floor is ugly and/or doesn’t match what you’re doing with the room, it’ll make a huge difference to cover it with an as-close-to-wall-to-wall carpet as you can.
My last apartment had ugly tiles of the kind I associate with basements, and the rooms basically looked like rooms of some kind that had furniture in them. My current apartment is carpeted, and—with the same furniture and mostly the same artwork—it looks like a home.
Another thing worth mentioning: a carpet (depending on what the floor currently looks like). I have no particular thoughts on throw rugs, but if your floor is ugly and/or doesn’t match what you’re doing with the room, it’ll make a huge difference to cover it with an as-close-to-wall-to-wall carpet as you can.
My last apartment had ugly tiles of the kind I associate with basements, and the rooms basically looked like rooms of some kind that had furniture in them. My current apartment is carpeted, and—with the same furniture and mostly the same artwork—it looks like a home.