At home, as in life, first impressions are a big deal — so the first space you see when you walk inside should make you feel good.At Lynn C.’s 1986 condo, first impressions were mixed, to say the least. “As soon as I walked through the front door, I was smitten by the front-to-back sightline,” she says, “yet at the same time struck — not in a good way — by the sense of looking through the wrong end of a telescope.