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Cardinal Decorating Mistakes To Avoid

Thursday, March 10th, 2016

 

Investing in quality furniture will save you more money than falling for cheap ones that you'll say goodbye to in just a few weeks or months. Featured furniture pieces are from the Biltmore Collection of FFDM.

Investing in quality furniture will save you more money than falling for cheap ones that you’ll say goodbye to in just a few weeks or months. Featured furniture pieces are from the Biltmore Collection of FFDM.

The whole process of decorating is often a hit and miss procedure. Don’t fret because there is no need to learn an entire interior design book just to be good at beautifying your home. Here are some highly regrettable disasters in decorating and how you can avoid them –

Saying No to Color Swatches

Who would paint walls without testing the color first?

Apparently, a lot of homeowners.

You shouldn’t automatically paint your walls with the color that you love. Even when you love purple, it just might not work inside your living room. Different colors can look differently on walls than they often do on the paint chips.

Painting mere swatches, primarily, and finding out how they look under various lighting conditions could cause some delays but this will save you bigger frustrations in the future.

Un-Ready for High Maintenance Decor   

A lot of homeowners also fall into the tempting feeling of buying marble countertops. They probably were coaxed by their friends or neighbors about the beauty of marble as a material not considering the energies required in maintaining such a beauty. Pretty soon, they end up regretting their previous decision.

If you don’t want to fall into the same trap, consider the improved quartz countertops.

This is also what happens to people who purchase a shag rug, not realizing that it sheds a lot. You should be a vacuum goddess in order to keep up with the shedding of such a rug. If you don’t have time for such chores, then better say no to this plush rug.

Playing – Unsuccessfully – With Colors

Sure, colors can easily up the wow factor inside any home but you have to be careful in using the kind of colors that will really evoke interest. For instance, buying a loud colored sofa means you have to tone down on the rest of the interior design elements. Adding over-the-top prints elsewhere or anything brighter on the walls, ceiling or floor would instantly create chaos.

If you do not want to have one particular furniture or element to dominate the room, then learn to play with neutrals and adding a dash of color here and there.

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Capel Incorporated Floor Coverings Metro Retro Shag Rug 3250RS03000500550 is a beautiful sight to behold inside your home. Be sure to care for it so that it remains a lovely floor piece.

Rush Decorating

If you think that you can complete your decorating project in just a day, then you’re thinking wrongly. Having a set of furniture in your living room on the very day that you get the key to your new home may be tempting but pretty soon, you’ll realize that it may not be a total match to the architectural structure of your home or the theme that you eventually choose.

Rushing to buy that perfect wallpaper will just burn a hole in your pocket. Take the time to choose the pattern, texture and color for your wallpaper as this will help in gluing the rest of the design elements.

Furniture Mishaps

Another disadvantage in hustle decorating is putting all the things that you own (read cramming!) inside a room. Most of the time, collections and photographs, even artworks crowd the walls. Add the bulky furniture and you’re set to completely fail.

Another downside to rush decorating could be falling for a cheap piece of furniture. Keep in mind that reupholstering can be pretty pricey so it is best to invest in furniture that will last for many, many years. Buying brand new furniture is like buying a new car. You will always have fewer to zero problems with the brand new piece.

Apart from problematic cheap furniture, another probable problem that you would encounter when it comes to buying furniture is to choose ones that do not harmonize with the rest of your design elements. Do understand scale and proportion in order to successfully create a lovely room.

Follow these simple guidelines and you will not commit decorating mistakes the way others before you have done.

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