Free from our Home and Garden publication: After years of designing homes, I’ve learned to trust my instincts. I can usually tell when a room feels off, when a layout isn’t going to function well, or when an idea that sounds great in theory might not be quite as great once we put it on paper.

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I appreciate all our readers, but this column is for those (very vocal) Facebook commenters who, based on said comments, do not understand the…