Make sure to do Large throw pillow no matter what else you do. This can be a problem that is hard to avoid particularly if the person is heavy and habitually sits in the same place for long periods of time. Have you ever seen what happens to a sofa when a golden retriever sized dog in on the sofa all the time. They pick a spot and lay there for hours at a time. The constant heat and pressure eventually cause the foam, to compress and stay saggy. When ever I sell a sofa I always stress the importance of rotating the seat cushions so they wear evenly. In your case you may find it necessary to rotate your husband fro m end to end. Ha Ha but also serious!

@cristinanick, the walls have some textured finish and run in the family room, eat in kitchen and kitchen and will need to have a lot of work done to repaint (they were like that when we purchased the home a few months back). At this time we don't have it in the budget to do all that work. I will eventually have it sanded and smoothed back out and painted a much lighter color and also lighten up all the trim. I will probably also remove that curtain at that time but for now I have to work with it and find other ways to lighten the room up and bring it out of the brown/beige world!

I was in the industrial cleaning biz for 15 years and hired a service to clean some of the most important windows at the GM Tech Center. He used Dawn and a squeegee. The rags were only used to dry his squeegee. Sadly, my own windows are a mess from years of bug spray which they claim will rinse off with a power washer. Nope. It doesn't. We quit the service 5 years ago and the windows are all still hazy. It's something to do with the pyrethrum and I've asked around - yep, it's bad for windows but you can't help to get the overspray when they spray your entire house. When I clean my windows I use Dawn, cleaning vinegar, and a nice squeegee and only a towel to dry my squeegee. You don't go up and down or from one side to the other. You go in a big hairpin turn type of swiping with the squeegee. It's hard to describe, but, it's how it's done. Yes, it's time. I haven't cleaned mine since spring, mostly because I haven't been here much. Our windows at our vacation home are bad as well, right now. I've been there as much as I've been here.

For some reason (I don't know what) this discussion popped up on my Houzz feed. It opened at the bottom with the latest comments so I scrolled up to the top to see where it came from and what it was all about. To my amazement, the photo there is of a house I built in Decatur, GA. Why it's in this discussion I don't know but I'm glad to see it. That photo has been saved literally thousands of times, as have many others from the project which you can see by clicking on the "more info" button below it. Of all the photos of the project, I think that one is one of the least interesting. It's just a straight on shot of the front. The one I like most is the one attached, which being at night is a little "moody". In any case, thanks for including one of my photos. And if you haven't gone to see the rest of them, click on that info button below.