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I would love to live on a house boat! This is a post about house boats, right?

The chandelier is dated. Get something light and airy like this example from Ikea. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40155009/ Ditch the bookshelves and replace with something more modern. The couches are beautiful, but let the wall breath. Bring them out a bit from the wall. Paint the walls either crisp white, or go the opposite route and paint them a darker value of whatever color you like. I always feel like a darker value paint really makes a room pop! Contrast that with white curtains maybe with a pattern of a contrasting color of the wall color. Add the accent curtain color in throw pillows on the couches. Add some more lamps, maybe a coffee table. Voila!

I would never rent a place that didn't allow me to paint. With that said, I've never shied away from painting any and everything. Currently, I have my entire rental painted various shades from pink to gray to black. I have hand stenciled a border around the dining room. I have painted an entire wall in the living room with black trees and I hand painted the head board over the bed, head boards are expensive, paint is not! The bottom line is, it's just paint.

What if you put the bed against the bathroom wall, as suggested by others, with the head of the bed against the window wall. Separate the bed from the living space with a sheer curtain. Place the futon flush with the opposite wall facing the bed and curtain. Against the curtain "wall" place a low table for TV. You could even have room this way for a small arm chair to close off the living space facing the window wall.