If you are looking to give a new house the feeling that it has been a home for more than three weeks, then here is a tip that you will adore. Little is more comforting than a home that feels well lived in, and if your home is new there is a way to achieve that, tone down any brassy hardware. You should also start to add those personal home touches and special family items such as photo frames and albums. If you have a family heritage album still packed in away in a box, you should unpack it and place it on the living room shelf. This is a simple and effective tip to feel at home in your new house.

There are solutions that you can purchase that will darken your new brass, and make it look antique. Apply it to brass hinges and doorknobs and you will dramatically reduce the shiny new gleam, and get a more subdued effect. This creates such an easy simple elegance all from a silly inexpensive bottle. Too bad more things are not as basic in price and effort.