Decorating your home should be an enjoyable time where you get to use your creative juices and add personal touches to your home. By avoiding some of these common mistakes, you will make your home feel put together and well laid out.
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Less is More
“Decorating a surface can be a bit of a struggle. Having dozens of picture frames that you want to utilize will be your enemy,” said Greg Flanagan of Edina Home Painting Company. “Trying to cover an entire surface with pictures makes your room look cluttered and makes you blind to seeing any specific photo.”
By choosing select photos and limiting the number that you place on any one display, you will help bring focus to that particular image and keep your space looking clean. Keeping some open space on your tables will make life easier for you as well when you do your regular dusting, as there will be less to move around.
Never Updating
“To get your space just the way you want it is something extraordinary in itself. Rarely do people ever get there, they always want to keep improving some aspect of their space,” said AlethiaErotas, spokesperson for her luxury home building organization.This is generally how most things in home design are, keeping up to date with the ever-changing culture and designs is going to be what keeps your home from looking outdated. Updating doesn’t have to be done every year, but it does need to be considered every five years or so. Particularly, if you are in to ultra-trending décor, you will want to be aware of when your current décor style is on the decline.
Frames Too High or Too Low
When it comes to wall hanging, it is very common for people to not know the right height in which to hang their wall art. Often times you can walk around a home and find something that is hung either too high, or a bit too low. It can make it feel slightly out of place. To avoid this, you will want to use this interior design rule of thumb; hanging should be centered at eye level. This means that the middle of your hanging should be at eye level of the average person. Take a tour of your home and adjust your hangings if they don’t seem to follow this rule, and you will see that when they are in their proper place the whole room looks more put together.
Improper Furniture Size
Having the wrong size of furniture in a room can really make the room feel too small or awkwardly large. Using bulky, large furniture in a smaller sized room will make the room feel even smaller than it actually is. Plus, you take away comfort in the space due to the lack of space to get around. When you have the opposite issue—with a large room and small or slender furniture—you can feel equally uncomfortable. Your space looks under-utilized and unfinished. To properly decorate any room in your home, make sure that you have furniture that fits the space as well as the style of the room.
Interior decorating in your home can be done with just about anything you want, just keep in mind the basic ground rules and you will be sure to have an appealing space to enjoy.
