Build surroundings that make your actual life easier to inhabit.

Design your surroundings around the life you have rather than the one you would like to be seen having. That means putting the things you use where you use them, removing what constantly gets in your way, and letting the space be shaped by real behavior instead of an idea of order.

Start with the thing that annoys you daily and fix it this week. Then the next. A home built out of a hundred small accommodations to your actual habits is worth more to you than any amount of coherent styling.