Interior Mistakes You Can Make

Unlucky design or room decoration not only hurts the eyes – in a poorly furnished apartment it's also uncomfortable to live. We often publish lists of outdated, illogical, disproportionate and simply dangerous interior solutions. Of course, it's hard to learn from other people's mistakes. But now that we've gathered all the articles about mistakes together, it's much easier to avoid your own design failure.

1. Mistakes in Decorating Small Spaces

A detailed list of wrong decorative steps for owners of small apartments. Use this list to make "corrections" in your living space design. With our tips, you will easily understand what color the floor should be, whether the curtains are hanging at the right height, and finally, you'll solve the eternal riddle: how to place furniture – along the walls or at a distance from them.

2. Challenges in Design and Layout of Small Apartments

Another list of specific "traps" for owners of tiny apartments. These mistakes cannot be corrected by changing the finish or moving decor around. 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 select furniture of optimal size, plan storage systems and possibilities for gentle spatial zoning. You'll also get rid of clutter in the house and fear of making mistakes!

3. All Possible Problems with Living Room Decoration

The main room in a house or apartment is usually decorated according to a standard scenario: sofa, armchairs, sideboard, TV. And with standard mistakes: furniture overload, wrong lighting, fear of bright colors and stylistic chaos. It's time to look at the living room critically – if any of our items appear in your design, fix them immediately. Read the article

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 few more mistakes that can easily be avoided – just check out this post when planning the bedroom of your dreams. Read the article

5. Errors in Children's Room Decoration: A Dangerous Perspective

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

6. List of Major Kitchen Failures

Each kitchen is unique. The area, layout, style and functionality are all different. Therefore, there are not just many mistakes in kitchen design and decoration, but an excessive number of them. In our material, we've compiled the most typical ones, from poor lighting to incorrect waste disposal. There's also a wealth of useful information about the "functional triangle" of the kitchen, the proper size of an island and optimal cabinetry for the backsplash.

7. Bathroom Renovation: Professional Warnings

A small, cramped, sometimes painfully inconvenient bathroom – the most needed space in daily life and one of the hardest to renovate. To renovate just two square meters, it sometimes 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 wisely plan your budget.

8. The Mistake of All Mistakes: Poor Lighting

Too bright or insufficient lighting – a mistake that constantly appears in various lists of interior shortcomings. Misaligned lighting scenarios, technically unsuitable fixtures, and illogical switch placement – all these flaws are familiar to inhabitants of typical apartments from childhood. Therefore, we've published an article on lighting shortcomings on our website – just save it to favorites and start working with light correctly from now on.

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

Mistakes in color work are very common – even professionals and those who are naturally sensitive to color make them. Use the recommendations of designer Nina Romanюk to properly build an interior palette. Bonus: if you slightly shift the focus, these tips will become universal and useful not just in room design. Whether you're painting, arranging a flower bed, putting together 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. And also well-planned lighting and a harmonious color composition. But have you ever thought about how to properly manage household chores? And 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 Same Mistakes That Must Be Made During Renovation

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