5 mistakes you should avoid in interior design

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5 mistakes you should avoid in interior design

There is no tragedy if you do not know all the rules of decorating a house. Nobody was born and learned and then this is a field in which the rules can be interpreted or even violated, provided you do this thing with style. The simplest is to find out which are the most frequently and important mistakes in design and craftsmanship to avoid them when you are planning the renovation and redevelopment of your house. In this way you will be able to compose a pleasant, harmonious decor with which you can be proud.

Periodically, I give for your attention articles in which I talk about these mistakes, hoping that this information will help you to decorate your house in a right manner. So today I will present five mistakes that would be good to remember and avoid in the future renovation of your house.

1. The uninspired mix of decorating styles

As we are feeling attracted to certain colours, each of us has a predilection for one of the house decorating styles. But sometimes it happens that we will love a piece of furniture or a decorative element in a style that we do usually not identify with. And because we like it so much, we buy it and we place it in the living room, in a place of honour. Then, on a vacation, we find another object that has nothing to do with the decorating style of the house, but you are buying it because: “WOW, but what beautiful it is! And it will remind us of the beautiful places and these wonderful days “. And so, without realizing, over time, we fill our house with beautiful things (if we viewed them and analysed them separately), which make a decor loaded and in which you get dizzy.

So if you have not proposed to arrange your house in the Fusion style, which involves combining several styles, but in one studied and developed option, it would be advisable to limit yourself to one style for both furniture and for finishes, textures, accessories and decorations. Otherwise, you risk surrounding yourself a lot of elements that have nothing to do with each other and the final result will be a disaster.

2. Attention! Straighten-up! Or placing the furniture along the walls

I said recently, in a comment, that I do not recommend aligning the furniture pieces to the wall even if in small living rooms. Once, this configuration method of the furniture was fashionable, people seeking to get as much free space in the centre of the room (in order to organize dancing teas, probably). In addition, the sofas of those times had an ugly back, which prevents our parents to leave their imagination run wild and to place the sofas differently than with the back well-stuck to one wall of the living room.

If you want a dynamic and a living room, do not be afraid to place in the middle of the living room a sofa or decorate the dining area in the centre of the kitchen, especially if it is large. After all, what do you do with the empty space in the centre of a room? It’s not like you are playing football. Think that in the last 10-15 years at most there still wore beds with storage box, which were thought to be glued to the wall and yet now, all of us seek to equip the dormitories with middle beds without being concerned that it occupies exactly the centre of the room.

More similar ideas you can find in the following article: 5 tricks visual magnification of a small living room.

3. The wrong division of the space

Modest size of many houses often compels us to seek solutions of designing of several areas of interest in a single room. So was born also the open space fashion with kitchens and living rooms designed in the same place or even with the bedroom designed in the living room (solution quite common in configuration of the small apartments and studios). The problem that we run into when arranging the several areas of activity in one room happens when we do not know how to realize its dividing. This is the moment when mistakes can occur.

Apparently, the simplest and the most common way to visually define two areas of interest from the same room is the chromatic method, meaning the painting in different colours of the two areas. If you do not choose perfectly the colours and then the furniture and the other elements of the decor, you risk a crowded room and getting completely chromatic unbalanced. Therefore, the experts recommend dividing the space with the help of furniture strategically placed or with the wood dividers, glass or metal screens. Thus, an ordinary shelf can become the frontier between the living room and the dining area decorated in its area, but also the sofa placed in the centre of the living room can divide into two distinct areas: the place to watch your favorite shows on television and the small office arranged behind the sofa.

4. Chosen finishes and wrong suited

In recent years, there appear so many types of finishes that are more or less beautiful so that is easy to understand that you can not decide on which one to choose. Natural stone, decorative wood panels, panels of coloured glass, faience, mosaic, decorative 3D panels, wallpaper, decorative plaster, apparent brick – these are just some of the options that the DIV stores, interior design and decoration overwhelm us. From the wish to have a beautiful house as many people are choosing to combine several types of finishes which, taken separately, are superbly, but used together result a kitschy decor.

So, if you want to decorate your living room with natural stone, choose a suitable model to the designing style chosen, but remember that you are not decorating a wine cellar or a basement, but a habitable room, which means that the stone will be used sparingly just as a decorative accent on a wall or in the fireplace area. The lower the room is, the less stone would be wise to use, especially if it is decorated in modern style.

Read also about: Natural stone in modern interior designs and decorative stone in modern kitchens finishing.

However, it is permitted the combination of two different finishes: the wood and the natural stone or the wood with the brick. But to get a pleasant and harmonious result, you should know the extent. Some beautiful examples you can find here: The designing of a modern living room with rustic accents.

5. Too loaded ceilings

10-15 years ago the false ceilings were in trend in various complex forms, equipped with spotlights and all sorts of other lighting sources that were responsible for the decorative lighting of the rooms. It was a whole craziness with the plaster soffits which also had a high price, because not every craftsman knew the secret of this type of construction. As expected, the fashion passed and the owners of these “ex celebrities” of living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens and other rooms of the house, gradually, they gave up on them (paying other money, of course), finding the meantime that they gather dust, are difficult to maintain and that, however, they are not as beautiful as they once thought.

The moral: avoid buildings and complicated decorations that dry your budget, that visual crowd your room and that go out quickly of fashion. In this category are also included the ornaments of plaster or polystyrene used for adorning the ceilings and the walls, the plaster columns, statues and other decorations like this. It would be advisable to use them only if you decorate the house in Baroque and Classical style and if the rooms are spacious and covered with high ceilings.

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