#interior design tips

do you hate a room in your house and don’t know why even though it’s already decorated? behold: my guide to not hating that room, brought to you by my own personal discoveries and design accidents

not to sound like one of the listicles I write for work, but here are five things you can add to a room (individually or all of them) to make you like it more

1. Small Lamp

“I don’t need a lamp — I have the Big Light and it doesn’t bother me.”

Get lamp. It makes the room softer. Great for bedrooms. Doesn’t have to be pricey either — I got one for $15 at Home Sense and when I turned it on, I was like “oh 🧍”

2. Plants (Real or Fake)

Now I really am going to sound like a listicle but there have been studies that have shown that greenery (real AND fake) can reduce stress levels because you’re a fucking mammal Susan and you need greenery in your enclosure.

Plants also make a space look dope as hell. Check out any Pinterest photo. Does it have plants in it? Remove the plants with your eyes. Do you still like the room or was it just the plants? You could still like the room, but the plants add something.

Consider getting a big leafy boy for the corner of the room you don’t like, or grabbing one from another part of your house. If you have a shelf or a dresser/bookcase, get a plant that hangs down a little.

3. Curtains

Curtains are great if you can’t paint because they can add a lot of color or patterns to one wall. They can be a little pricey, but sometimes you can find good deals on basic colors. They sell in panels, though, so keep that in mind.

“I already have curtains tho — it doesn’t make sense to get more.” If you don’t like your curtains and you can afford it, switch them out. Trying to work with curtains that are a color you despise won’t make you like the room more.

If you don’t know what color to go with, check out rooms on Pinterest with similar color palettes and see what they’re using. If you don’t have a color palette and you don’t have one in mind, try going with your favorite color and then going from there.

4. Duplicate Something You Like From Another Room

One of my favorite rooms in my house is my living room bc I’m a color slut, and one of my favorite things in it is this chidi rug I got from a clearance store. I brought it into my bedroom to make sure I liked it in there first before I went and got another one from Five Below, and I love it in there.

5. Books

This is the one that actually inspired me to make this post bc it was so easy I wanted to eat drywall. If you love books and/or have books somewhere else in your house, go grab a handful of them that are in the color palette you want for that room and arrange them on a shelf in that room.

It adds a lot of color in a short amount of time, and you don’t have to buy anything.

I literally just did this in my bedroom with pink, orange, and yellow books and mirrored what I have going on in my office where there’s some stacked and some vertical and then, on the stacked ones, you put a little plant (real or fake).

Instantly liked my bookcase-turned-dresser; it was embarrassing.

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Latest Home Décor Tends

Many people want to cope with the latest interior design trends, but my advice is not to be dedicated to follow any Trend specially in interior design, it’s ok to add some accessories, changing some fabrics for your cushion or curtain, adding colors in some home pops, but please remember it’s a yearly trend so follow what’s suit you and suit your personality and will not disturb you after the…

What separates good interior decorating from bad decorating? A lot of it comes down to personal taste. Some of the most popular trends in home decor are often the most hated. Things that were popular in the 70’s then reviled, are popular again. When it comes to interior decorating, it can be hard to keep track of the ever-changing trends. Nowhere is this better illustrated than on an online forum where people shared their interior decorating pet peeves. Here’s a sample.

Bowls of pebbles

Why spend lots of money on a nice centerpiece for your coffee table when you can just buy a glass fishbowl and fill it with rocks? Rocks are free. Somewhere along the line this particular home decor shortcut has become extremely popular with homeowners. Perhaps it’s popular because rocks are a way of bringing elements of the outdoors inside without using plants which need constant attention to keep them alive. Which brings us to…

Fake plants

Fake plants don’t fool anyone. They look like plastic because they are plastic. While they don’t require daily waterings and plenty of sunshine, you do have to dust each fake leaf individually every few weeks. Honestly, that might be worse than taking care of an actual plant.

Decorative twigs

Another variation of the pebbles-inside-of-glass-bowls look are arrangements of small twigs and branches. Like rocks, collections of twigs are not living things and require no maintenance, which makes them a popular choice. Still it makes you wonder, why are their dead twigs scattered about this room?

Ornamental words

You’ve no doubt seen some combination of “Live, Laugh, Love” displayed in dozens of homes during your life. These three in particular are the biggest offenders but the word “relax” often adorns the wall just above the bathtub, and the words “family” can often be seen among arrangements of photographs. Of particular offense to the French is when the words Bon Appetit are hung in the kitchen.

The color gray

Another popular home decor shortcut is the gray color scheme. Sure it makes things easy since any accent color will go well with it but some would argue that gray is the most boring color of all, even less interesting than black and white which at leasts creates some contrast.

Shabby chic

The term “shabby chic” is one that’s often thrown around by crafty DIYers but no one has been able to supply a satisfactory definition. It almost always involves trying hard to make new pieces of furniture look old by distressing the wood or purposefully chipping the paint just enough so that it’s old in a cool way, but not old in an ugly way.

What does all of this mean?

So what do these commonly hated, overused home decor trends tell us about interior decorating? Only that everything is subjective and at the end of the day, what really matters is your own personal taste. All of these examples, with the exception of ornamental words which are objectively bad, are a matter of personal taste. In fact, many people in the forum came to the defense of some of these design trends. If you want to install baseboard heater covers and paint them purple or put a bowl of rocks on every single surface in your interior home, it’s your prerogative. Just make sure you’re doing it because it’s what you like, and not because it’s popular.

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What separates good interior decorating from bad decorating? A lot of it comes down to personal taste. Some of the most popular trends in home decor are often the most hated. Things that were popular in the 70’s then reviled, are popular again. When it comes to interior decorating, it can be hard to keep track of the ever-changing trends. Nowhere is this better illustrated than on an online forum where people shared their interior decorating pet peeves. Here’s a sample.

Bowls of pebbles

Why spend lots of money on a nice centerpiece for your coffee table when you can just buy a glass fishbowl and fill it with rocks? Rocks are free. Somewhere along the line this particular home decor shortcut has become extremely popular with homeowners. Perhaps it’s popular because rocks are a way of bringing elements of the outdoors inside without using plants which need constant attention to keep them alive. Which brings us to…

Fake plants

Fake plants don’t fool anyone. They look like plastic because they are plastic. While they don’t require daily waterings and plenty of sunshine, you do have to dust each fake leaf individually every few weeks. Honestly, that might be worse than taking care of an actual plant.

Decorative twigs

Another variation of the pebbles-inside-of-glass-bowls look are arrangements of small twigs and branches. Like rocks, collections of twigs are not living things and require no maintenance, which makes them a popular choice. Still it makes you wonder, why are their dead twigs scattered about this room?

Ornamental words

You’ve no doubt seen some combination of “Live, Laugh, Love” displayed in dozens of homes during your life. These three in particular are the biggest offenders but the word “relax” often adorns the wall just above the bathtub, and the words “family” can often be seen among arrangements of photographs. Of particular offense to the French is when the words Bon Appetit are hung in the kitchen.

The color gray

Another popular home decor shortcut is the gray color scheme. Sure it makes things easy since any accent color will go well with it but some would argue that gray is the most boring color of all, even less interesting than black and white which at leasts creates some contrast.

Shabby chic

The term “shabby chic” is one that’s often thrown around by crafty DIYers but no one has been able to supply a

satisfactory definition. It almost always involves trying hard to make new pieces of furniture look old by distressing the wood or purposefully chipping the paint just enough so that it’s old in a cool way, but not old in an ugly way.

What does all of this mean?

So what do these commonly hated, overused home decor trends tell us about interior decorating? Only that everything is subjective and at the end of the day, what really matters is your own personal taste. All of these examples, with the exception of ornamental words which are objectively bad, are a matter of personal taste. In fact, many people in the forum came to the defense of some of these design trends. If you want to install baseboard heater covers and paint them purple or put a bowl of rocks on every single surface in your interior home, it’s your prerogative. Just make sure you’re doing it because it’s what you like, and not because it’s popular.

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