You don’t need an interior designer’s budget to make a room look great. Most of the difference between a thrown-together space and a polished one comes down to a few simple decisions about scale, layout, and lighting — the kind of decisions you can make yourself with a bit of guidance.

Below are the design and DIY guides we keep coming back to, organized by room.

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