Step 1: Analyze Your Home
Room by room, list the following:

• the assets (the room's best features, which you'll want to highlight)
• the liabilities (the room's problem areas, which you'll want to downplay or camouflage)
• the size - the shape (square? long? L-shaped?)
• the windows (too many? too few? placed awkwardly? strangely proportioned?)
• the ceilings (too high ? too low?)
• take special note of architectural features such as fireplaces, mantels, moldings, pipes, ducts, radiators, etc.

In each room, you'll want to highlight the best features by drawing attention to them with wallcovering, borders, coordinated designs or special paint colors and treatments that set them apart from the rest of the room. Similarly, you will want to downplay problem zones by covering them with wallcovering that matches the walls, hiding them with decorative screens or planning built-ins to camouflage the offending items.