Anne Haimes, an interior designer from Henley-on-Thames, shares some of the biggest interior design disasters people commit when renovating their houses and rooms. These include overdoing the gilt, Using a rug with a size disproportionate to the rest of your room, hanging pictures too high, being obsessed with making everything match, and trying to copy interior designs straight out of magazines. Avoiding these is important to maintain a tasteful, well decorated home.
Key Takeaways:
- A lot of householders are guilty of interior design mistakes.
- These include having a feature wall in every room, having an ill-fitting sized rug and overdoing the gilt.
- Trying to match everything and copying directly from an interior design magazine are also wrong habits many of us succumb to.
“Try and go for key pieces instead of going full on over-kill. Less is more!”