NEW LOOK TO FURNITURE

Take care of your furniture: Keep your furniture clean. If it's cloth furniture, you should vacuum it regularly. If it is leather furniture, you should wipe it down and use leather treatment regularly. And if it's made of wood, you need to keep it polished.

* If you have wooden furniture you have a few options. Painting is one idea. If you do not want to paint your furniture you still have other options. If it has been badly abused, you can sand off the finish, sand out the nicks and scratches, and then varnish it. Or, if it is not badly scratched, you can use children's crayons in a color that matches the wood (like light brown) and color in the scratch. Scratch filler is available at hardware stores but children's crayons can work just as well.

* To get your furniture re-upholstered is another way to revive your tired furniture. Instead of buying brand new furniture, just get your furniture re-upholstered. After all, you have probably painted your living room a couple times, so having furniture that matches again will make your room look that much better.

* And yet another way to revive tired looking furniture is to simply move your room around or switch the rooms that your furniture are in. Simple changes of furniture will help you, cycle your furniture from heavy use areas to light use areas, which will help maintain their life, and will help you enjoy them as if they were new.