You don’t have to be an interior designer in order to decorate your home with style and taste. Decoration is the key to having a beautiful and cozy house, one that will be a reflection of you as a person. It is important to follow your own individual style, but you should also abide by some guidelines. Since decorating the home can be a big challenge and requires effort and experience, we crafted this list with the most common mistakes which you should avoid in order to achieve unique and stylish look.

Taking the Home Decor Mission Too Far

1. Overdoing a theme  – It is not wrong to be influenced by something, but don’t allow your room to lose its individual style. Let the influences be in the small details and don’t turn everything into a copy of some other room you saw in some magazine. Your home should follow your own narrative and resonate with your personality – not the personality of some Swedish designer. Otherwise, your place might start looking like a hotel.

2. Filling the room with too much stuff – When it comes to style, less is more. So, it automatically excludes any ceramic bunnies, lucky elephants and little plates with kittens on the shelves. We understand that some of them may have sentimental value to you, but keep them to a minimum. Choose more practical items – for example, a soft carpet and a few pillows are sure to make the room cosier and more comfortable. But even then, be moderate.

3. Choosing style over comfort – Style is important for the atmosphere in your home, as people feel good when they are surrounded by beauty. However, comfort is equally important and there should be a fine balance between the two. For example, you might like a certain chair that you find beautiful and think it fits your room perfectly, but if it gives you a spinal distortion, it is not a good choice. Looks can’t be at the expense of your health. Leave the bar stools at the bar and arrange regular chairs around your dining table.

4. Pushing all furniture against the walls – Pushing the furniture towards the ends of the room creates uncomfortable distance between the people in it, especially when it comes to larger rooms. Arrange your living room inward to achieve a warmer and intimate setting, which allows people to sit close to each other when talking.

5. Making everything matchy-matchy – Don’t be tempted by matching furniture colours– there is nothing more boring and non-unique. You can achieve much better results by mixing accessories and pieces of furniture. It takes more time to find the perfect mix, but that’s what makes the charm of your own home.

Not Putting Enough Effort 

6. Starting without a plan – We have all been in a situation where we don’t know where to start from. However, when it comes to something as big as home renovation, the saying “Measure twice, cut once” is accurate. Acting without a plan is sure to make your work harder. For some things there is a simple logic – for example, paint the walls before renovating the floor. Otherwise, you’ll have a perfect floor with irreversible paint stains.

7. Neglecting the quality – It is recommendable that you buy materials that are easy to work with and quality furniture that will last longer. Choosing low price over good quality can turn out to be a bad decision in the long run. High-quality materials will not only save you money, but also time and efforts, so don’t neglect them.

8. Ignoring the color schemes – Don’t match all the colours, but choose ones that “go well” with each other in order to avoid a dull look. Some things don’t look good together, but others complement each other in a way that makes the whole picture perfect. Use a pattern colour scheme to generate some fresh ideas.

9. Not paying attention to proportions – Take into considerations the proportions and scaling when choosing furniture for your home. Without proper proportions of the decoration, your rooms will lack harmony and impact. Too much open space in your room could be depressing, but you don’t want to stumble over furniture either. The solution is to measure accurately. Get yourself a measuring tape when choosing your furniture and always keep in mind the sizes of the rooms.

10. Forgetting about the details – Even the best home decor won’t shine if you invite guests and bring out ugly plates. Give your guests a treat and make the experience harmonic by creating a beautiful table setting. Choose among some of the most beautiful dinner sets available online as a final touch to the decoration in your home!

 

11.  Leaving things unfinished – Are you already tired of renovating? It’s hard work, so being exhausted is completely understandable. However, the worst mistake you can make is to leave things unfinished. Leave a wall unpainted or a light bulb without a chandelier and you know exactly what is going to happen. Promising “I’ll do it later” doesn’t work. There is a big chance that you`ll used to it and stop noticing it. So, don’t make any compromises!

So, let’s sum it up – the basic rules are only two. Firstly, don’t take the home decor mission too far. You don’t need a “Last supper” mosaic in your bathroom. Secondly, don’t be lazy. The rooms will need a lot of work in order to be transformed into a real home, so take it seriously! If you put your heart and soul into the process, it will totally be worth the еffort. We hope that our list has helped you come one step closer towards a place which you can truly call a home.

Bio

Anna is the founder and chief designer of AnnaVasily, a boutique platform for exclusive designer tableware based in Australia. Starting her career in France where she learnt the art of silver coating, glass engraving and the secrets of the Venetian mirror making, Anna got more and more passionate about glass. She went to the States and graduated in Boston to later come back to Europe and work for various workshops. In 1992, the nostalgia brought her and her husband back to Greece, where they started their own production. Since 1999, the company has been collaborating with hotels and restaurants as well as some industry starts like Gordon Ramsey, but only in 2017, Anna created the brand AnnaVasily as it is today.