Thom Filicia—the decorating whiz who can turn a live-in dumpster into a sleek, jazzy bachelor pad before you can say Queer Eye for the Straight Guy —is a firm believer in the power of accessorizing. When we asked him to find, for not too much money, the most room-transforming objects out there, he produced a truckload of terrific stuff—along with his rules of Thom.

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