The room everyone passes through deserves attention even if nobody calls it their favorite.

Hallways, landings, the space between the door and the kitchen: nobody sits in them, and everybody moves through them several times a day. Because no one claims them, they collect the coats, the unopened post, the thing that has no home. The most used part of a house often gets the least thought, purely because it is not anyone’s room.

Give one of these places twenty minutes: a hook, a light that works, somewhere for the post to land. You will feel the difference far more often than you would from improving a room you rarely enter.