February is Pull Your Sofa Off the Wall Month, time to take a serious look at your living room, family room, rec room, or any room in your home with a sofa, couch, divan, love seat, settee, or davenport.  Clean up, get organized, and pull that couch out from the wall to freshen up your room arrangement.  Here's how:

1. Clean up. Translated, this means removing all the clutter that accumulates in this oft-used room as well as giving the room a good cleaning, top to bottom.  For step-by-step living room cleaning tips, visit About.com. 
2. Get organized. Divide the clutter into "keep," "donate" and "toss" categories, and remove the donate and toss items right away.  Of the items you'll keep, decide which will remain in the living room and which belong somewhere else in your home.  Take things that don't belong to the rooms where they do, leaving you with just the furniture and other decor you want to keep in your living room.  For more a more detailed set of steps, see the Get Organized article on how to "live" in your living room.
3. Pull your sofa off the wall.  Now it's time to get creative!  To find a living room arrangement that suits your lifestyle, from cottage to mediterranean, active to quiet and subdued, visit HGTV's living room design guide.

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