In "Downsize: Living Large in a Small House" (2019, The Taunton Press), author Sheri Koones focuses on practical ways to live well at home once you've streamlined your belongings and are living more compactly.

"It scares people to think of moving into a smaller space, but every single person I interviewed who has made the transition says they are so happy they did," Koones says. "Time and again, people used the word 'liberated' to describe their move to a smaller space, with homes requiring far less time and money to maintain."

Koones, who recently relocated from a sprawling 6,800-square-foot house in Greenwich, Connecticut, to a 1,400-square-foot home closer to town, has experienced the transition herself.