Planning your space is not as simple a grocery listing your furniture to purchase and check off one by one. Before starting, try an exercise of painting a picture in your mind and adding design elements to imagine the end product. Not only the big furniture pieces, but the art, colors, rugs, layers, everything! Once you have that completed room in your head, then it's time to start buying. F or the full 'How To,' r ead my guest blog, THE WHOLE INTERIOR DESIGN PLAN , that I wrote for the Washington Post's Apartment Showcase blog! Love, NAFASI