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[quote=Anonymous]We just bought a 1304 sf townhouse, so I understand how you feel.

Some thoughts:
First and most important, is get the right size furniture.  Too many people living in small spaces want things like overstuffed chairs/sofas or put a big screen TV on a TV stand.  Start by getting smaller furniture.  You can do this in stages, one piece here, one piece there.  But you want love seats and not couches.  You want ones with smaller footprints and do not overhang.  All of the overstuff seats make a space feel much more cramped and smaller, even when they don't encrouch on walk spaces, and often due to placing, overstuffed furniture just squeezes the walking space in a room so that you have to sidle past certain furniture or squeeze past them.  Taller narrower refrigerators often free up floor space or make a walkway feel larger.

Make use of vertical height instead of horizontal space.  Look for bookcases or cabinets that go up to your ceiling.  Even if you need a stepstool or ottoman to get up to the higher spaces, you can use that for less used things like seasonal items or storage.  Hang your large TV on the wall and get rid of the TV stand.  Make sure that your kitchen cabinets to all the way to the ceiling.  The space is much more usable and attractive when you put things inside cabinets instead of stacking on top of cabinets.  I know one person who changed her side-by-side washer/dryer for a stack washer, then got two European narrower/taller refrigerators.  One she put in the laundry room and one went into the kitchen.  The laundry room felt about the same, but the kitchen felt much bigger since the fridge took up so much less space.  And it was next to the archway that passed into the dining room, so you really felt the additional space.

Get furniture that comes with built-in storage.  Replace your dining room chairs on the side adjoining the living room with a banquette style bench that has storage under the seats.  Then the extra dining room decorations, place settings, cushions, etc can be stored in the dining room.  Something like this takes up much less space and when you push the chairs in on the open side, the living room gets bigger.  
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There are lots of ottomans that have storage space inside.  Make one a toy storage for small kids.  Make another one for all of the manuals, remotes, cables, etc that go with the TV but just get stored most of the time.  Free up other storage space by hiding away things inside furniture.

Alternatively, adding separation between the dining room and living room with floating shelves or pass through shelving so that they don't feel like they take up a lot of space or close off the rooms, something like this:
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You can rescreen your porch DIY for as little as $250.  This one will replace the screens for an 8x10 space:
[url]https://www.homedepot.com/p/EZ-Screen-Room-8-ft-x-10-ft-White-Aluminum-Frame-Screen-Room-Kit-with-Fiberglass-Screen-EZSR810CRW/202565124[/url]

If you want to change out the screens for storm window type products, the cost will range from about $600-1500 depending on how fancy the screens are, the size of the space and how complex the replacement panels and shape is.[/quote]

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