If my husband read this headline, an image of me hauling a chaise lounge upstairs or using my legs to push a heavy bookcase across the room would immediately pop into his head. In my redesigning frenzy he asks, “Why didn’t you wait for me to help you with that? You are so impatient.” I’m not that impatient really. It’s just that I don’t want to explain why I’m editing the room again. He just doesn’t understand.

Does anyone else out there suffer from “The Designer’s Curse?” We nip, tuck, pin, and pull until it is almost perfect, because it never really is…Because I’m in good company, I feel I can be transparent with you and the millions of houzz.com readers about the impatient decorator in me. I’ve pulled together 8 ideas that could help people like us in satisfying our desire for change. Here are a couple: