A tiny apartment feels like a mansion when the right people are crammed onto the couch.

Space gets judged by what happens inside it. A small room crowded with people who like each other reads as warm, while the same square footage alone reads as cramped, which tells you the measurement was never really about the floor plan. Comfort is mostly company.

Stop postponing having people over until the place is bigger or tidier. Ask two of them round this week for something with no occasion attached. The room will be exactly the size it has always been and will feel like somewhere else entirely.