Furniture breaks up the echoes.
Odd shapes break up the echoes. The IKEA paper lamps work well for this.
Bookshelves work well. Particularly books of various sizes, and put there at various heights.
Sound diffusing panels are easy to make. A good way to hide ugly panels is a) stagger them together to make a 3d photo collage type deal, or b) have a piece of art/photos/etc printed on fabric and use that as the visual for your panel.
I'm very much in the same boat you are right now. The place I just moved into is all bare wall, and no carpet in the entire place. 15x12 living room, and 15x9 bedroom. I'm going to be making quite a few diffusers for that room, as it's current state will not suffice for my A/V needs.
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