If your curtains no longer work in your space but you don't want to just throw them out, repurpose them into decorative items ...

Basements are rarely inviting spaces, unless you put significant money into renovations. This easy hack, though, can make it a more pleasant space.

Eswar Menon is Chief Investment Officer of Fundamental Strategies, Partner, and Portfolio Manager with Empiric Institutional. He was Founder and CIO of Harper Capital Management, which merged with ...