Nature's Miracle is good at developing products for just this kind of use. I have a cat who always heads straight for the corners of the one carpeted room. I keep him out as much as possible, and I have some of their pet stain stuff on hand (I also have the skunk odor remover for the dogs).
I have the school stuff to do, but my second monitor has been failing to turn on, and continually turning on and off the computer only messes up my desktop. So I took time today to run some diagnostic stuff. Since the monitor did turn on occasionally, I figured it was either the video card or some program controlling it that wasn't getting the message any more. I think I've found it and at the same time I've updated my free AVG and run scans with my Spybot Search&Destroy, etc.
Still working on where furniture sits. I moved the piano to a new position, but I may end up moving it back. Or someplace else. If it had been restored I'd be tempted to move it down into the front room, but since one day I hope to have it go out the door for extensive restoration, I'm keeping it on the upper level near the doors.
I'm thinking about moving the shelves back in and putting the VCR tapes up, and while I do it I'll sort out all of the ones we won't keep. I've pulled several dozen already that I think I can pack up for re-recording on or something. They still work, there's no point in sending them to the dump. Since I don't have a DVR right now, it's tapes. And the new garage sale VCR works just fine. I still haven't got quite all of the wires going to the right parts of the receiver (I can't hear these through the stereo yet) so I'll take out all of the wires and put them back. I suspect I have some just hanging out in there doing nothing. I used to stash a spare folding table behind the television cabinet, and I'm thinking about doing that again. You can never have too many tables. Maybe.
I'm still thinking over where I want my little secretary. I tend to open mail in the kitchen, and one of the things that Martha Stewart points out is that you should situate some of your office and file things in the place where you find you use them most often. So putting the secretary in the front room may look good, but I need all of that stuff in the kitchen. And what if I move the big wire pantry rack into the kitchen? Will it look way too crowded, or can I arrange it so the stuff looks interesting, not busy? If I do that, will I put wall-mounted shelves in the hall where the pantry used to stand? Or put a table there against the wall?