11 Interior Mistakes You Can Make

1. Mistakes in Decorating Small Spaces

A detailed list of incorrect decor steps for owners of small apartments. Use it to make 'corrections' in your living space design. With our tips, you will easily understand what color floor is needed, whether curtains are hanging at the right height, and finally, figure out the eternal mystery: how to place furniture - along the walls or at a distance from them.

2. Difficulties in Design and Layout of Small Apartments

Another list of specific 'traps' for owners of tiny apartments. These mistakes can no longer be fixed by changing finishes and moving decor. Therefore, when doing a major renovation or planning a new interior, keep this material in mind or share it with your designer. With our list, you will choose furniture that is the right size, plan storage systems and options for gentle spatial zoning. You'll also get rid of clutter in the house and fear of making a mistake!

3. All Possible Problems with Living Room Decoration

The main room in a house or apartment is usually decorated according to the standard scenario: sofa, armchairs, sideboard, TV. And with standard mistakes: overloading furniture, wrong lighting, fear of bright colors and stylistic chaos. It's time to look at the living room critically – and if anything from our list is present in your design, fix it immediately.

4. Collection of Typical 'Blunders' in Bedroom Design

Noise, bright light, busy prints, cold floors. The common concept of 'the best wardrobe for clothes is a chair'. And a couple more mistakes that can easily be avoided – just take a look at this post when planning the bedroom of your dreams.

5. Mistakes in Children's Room Decoration: A Dangerous Prospect

You dreamed of living your whole childhood in a spaceship or dollhouse, and now you want to gift that fantasy to your own little one? Your kids might have their own ideas about the visual appeal of such a design. Besides, themed decoration in children's rooms quickly gets old for the whole family – and for the child too. This is just one of the mistakes: there are ten in total, and each deserves careful attention!

6. List of Major Kitchen Failures

Each kitchen is unique. The space, layout, style and functionality are all different. Therefore, there are not just many mistakes in kitchen design and decoration – there are way too many. In our article, we've collected the most typical ones, from poor lighting to incorrect waste disposal. There is also a lot of useful information about the 'functional triangle' of the kitchen, proper island size and optimal backsplash finish.

7. Bathroom Renovation: Professional Warnings

A small, cramped, sometimes uncomfortably inconvenient bathroom is the most needed space in daily life and one of the most complex to renovate. To renovate just two square meters, sometimes it takes more than a month and a lot of money. We've collected typical wrong decisions made during bathroom renovations. To avoid mistakes, it's important to get closer to specialists and carefully plan your budget.

8. The Mistake of All Mistakes: Poor Lighting

Too bright or insufficient lighting – a mistake that constantly appears in lists of interior design failures. Poorly chosen lighting scenarios, technically inappropriate fixtures, illogical switch placement – all these flaws are familiar to residents of standard apartments from childhood. That's why we've published an article on lighting shortcomings on our site – just save it to favorites and start working with light correctly from now on.

9. Seeing Color: Shortlist of Problems in Working with Color

Mistakes in working with color are very common – even professionals and those who naturally sense color make them. Use the recommendations of designer Nina Romanjuk to properly build an interior palette. Bonus: if you slightly shift the focal points, these tips will become universal and useful not only in room design. Whether you're painting, arranging a flower bed, assembling a wardrobe or bouquet – color principles are the same for all visual forms of creativity.

10. Typical Mistakes in Maintaining Order

Suppose you've followed all the recommendations, and now you have a maximally ergonomic apartment with an ideal living room, bedroom, children's room, bathroom and kitchen. Along with well-planned lighting and harmonious color composition. But have you ever thought about how to properly manage household chores? What's the difference between 'keeping clean' and 'tidying up'? Using our helpful tips, you'll surely save a lot of time and effort on cleaning.

11. The Very Mistakes That Must Be Made During Renovation

Windows without curtains, floor without finishing, sofa without cushions, pictures on the floor – sounds terrible but looks fresh and elegant. You can continue our list of mistakes that need to be made yourself, since the main mistake in design has become interior clichés! Follow your own individuality and occasionally flip stereotypes upside down.