Top Home Decorating Mistakes and how to Avoid Them

Top Home Decorating Mistakes and how to Avoid Them

What do designers see in people’s houses that always drive them nuts? Here are top eight decorating don’ts:

1. Overzealous decorative painting

Decorative painting can be a beautiful addition to space, but you should know where to draw the line. It should be elegant and polished but if you go too far up, you cook up a recipe for disaster.

2. Overhead lighting

There is nothing worse than bright overhead lights which make you feel like you are on stage. You should go for dimmers and soft white bulbs in every room, including bathrooms. Lighting should not wash you down as it is really unflattering.

3. Putting everything together in the living room

Experiment with your space by taking a few things away and try to group similar things together in a single spot. Make your favorite pieces stand out and create a space that feels supportive and not over-whelming.

4. Furniture pushed up against walls

Do not create a living room seating arrangement that makes conversation difficult. The guiding principle is to create intimacy and set it imagining the sofas talking to the chairs and the chairs to one another.

5. Choosing furniture that does not play well with others

One of the biggest mistakes people make in decorating is the wrong impression of scale and proportion in terms of interior design. The furniture should have similar proportions, do not pair a huge, over-stuffed chair with a small, delicate love seat.

6. Too many photos

Photo people feel very sentimental and have a hard time, giving up the pictures on their walls and table. So you need to organize them properly in photo albums and keep them arranged on a bookshelf and then try to display just a few framed pictures at a time.

7. Bankrupting yourself for the perfect wallpaper

People feel as if they need to wallpaper an entire room, which can be expensive and make a space feel crowded and busy. You just need a feature wall to cover with wallpaper, so the print stands out and the room feels open and airy.

8. Undressed cables

Keep cables hidden at all times such as with a staple gun to attach them to the back of furniture or along baseboards. Find a cord cover that matches your wall cover.

Hopefully, you avoid all the above mentioned mistakes. There are many good practices of beautiful interior decoration on this website. Take a look on them to get a feeling of how it should be done.