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Contrary to popular opinion, most of us don't care about interior design "mistakes". Here are a few that I think you should ignore.
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hi it's Lindsay Diane from Diane
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decor.com today let's talk about
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interior design mistakes that regular
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people just don't care about without
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fail every year at least three or four
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times a year I get flooded with posts
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and YouTube videos and things in my
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Pinterest feed about interior design
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mistakes
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now this is something that I just have a
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really hard time with because interior
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design and interior decorating
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especially is very subjective and there
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are some things that always land on
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these lists that regular people just
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don't care about interior designers
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study the art and science behind
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interior spaces all about the way that
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we behave in spaces spatial
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relationships and a part of their job
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does include assigning the decorations
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to those spaces to a room or a building
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the interior decorating or the interior
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styling this is the part that I have an
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issue with when people critique others
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interior decorating or interior styling
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choices there are no mistakes here it's
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completely subjective it's 100 a matter
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of opinion and yet I constantly see
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things falling on a list of mistakes as
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if people are doing something wrong in
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their homes so let's talk about some of
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those mistakes and why most people
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outside of the Interior Design Niche or
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interior design industry don't care
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about these things at all
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number one is your curtain length now
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this is one that has always been a pet
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peeve of mine yes there are different
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ways to hang your curtains or different
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lengths to have your curtains at so you
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can have them kiss the floor you can
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have them puddle on the floor the
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suggestion is that your curtain should
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go all the way to the floor
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now
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I have never once gone into someone's
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home and said oh man look at the
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curtains
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like look at those curtains they're six
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inches off the ground that's crazy you
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know no one does that regular people
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don't do that it's not a point of
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criticism for anyone I don't know anyone
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and I hope you don't either that will go
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into someone's home and turn their nose
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up at how long someone's curtains are
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it's completely absurd just because my
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curtains are four inches off the ground
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or six inches off the ground does not
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make it a mistake moreover it's
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practical not to have your curtains go
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all the way to the ground if you vacuum
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your regularly or you have a robot
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vacuum or you have pets or things like
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that you don't want those things so
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close to the ground they're going to get
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damaged they're going to get sucked up
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by the vacuum and they're gonna get
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dirty now there is something to be said
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for elongating the look of your windows
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but it's not a must-have if you want a a
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more dramatic look that's a tactic that
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you go for you hang your curtains really
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high up close to the ceiling have them
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run all the way to the floor and skim
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the floor and you have the illusion of
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these big tall Grand windows but not
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everyone needs to do that some people
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already have really tall windows and so
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the idea that you have to have your
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curtains all the way down to the floor
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is just silly and you really should pay
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any mind to it and you certainly
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shouldn't spend any money redoing every
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curtain panel in your home just to
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adhere to some interior designer's wish
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list number two is matching furniture
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sets these are the kinds of sets that
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you would get at showroom warehouses
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like Rooms To Go
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now there is something to be said for
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your house looking like it comes from a
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showroom right that's where we get that
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idea is that everything is matching it's
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just so and it looks like you picked it
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right from a catalog and put it into
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your living room
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there's nothing wrong with this there
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really isn't
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frankly the most affordable way for you
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to buy a full set of furniture if you
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have none already is to buy the sets you
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get a discount when you buy the set so
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don't feel as though you can't buy a set
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of furniture if you want to break up
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that kind of look and you still want a
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nice curated feeling to each of your
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rooms go ahead and break up the pieces
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so if you buy a living room set that has
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a sofa and a matching love seat and a
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couple of chairs pull one of those
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chairs out of there swap it out and put
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it in a bedroom put another chair in a
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home office and then get two other
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chairs to kind of mix and match and
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balance out all of that kind of same
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similar pattern that you're going to get
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when you buy the full set that's the way
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you want to do it so that you're still
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saving money you're getting the pieces
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of furniture that you need for you to
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fill out your rooms but you're not
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getting that sort of
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cold catalog kind of feeling in your
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space and you can do the exact same
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thing for the bedroom sets as well you
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know they sell the bedroom sets us like
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five or six pieces you get the
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nightstand you but the bed frame the
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tall boy dresser a smaller dresser you
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know go ahead and buy it just split up
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the pieces and put some in one room put
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some in another bedroom and then you can
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kind of start from there but by all
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means save the money and buy the set not
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only is it cheaper but it saves a whole
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lot of time if you are fresh in a space
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and you don't have any furniture and you
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really want to be able to function in
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your space you want to lay down on a bed
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you don't want to lay on an air mattress
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you want to sit on a sofa you don't want
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to be on the floor you know go ahead and
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do it it's a lot faster than
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individually picking pieces from a bunch
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of different stores
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number three is curtain rod hanging
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height you do not need to hang your
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curtain rods all the way to the ceiling
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that is the recommendation that I hear
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all the time hang them as high as you
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can it's completely unnecessary the only
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thing you have to do is hang them high
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enough so that you're not drilling into
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your window frame so you hang them high
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over the framing of your window and wide
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enough to be outside of the framing of
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your window that's the only thing you
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need to do
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other than that hang them at any height
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you want it's practical for you to hang
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them just above the window because
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that's where people can reach otherwise
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if you have very tall Windows you're
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probably going to have to hire somebody
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with the big ladder to come in and hang
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the curtains for you and that's just not
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practical for most of us and that's why
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most people don't care about curtain rod
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hanging height
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and number four on my list of mistakes
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that regular people just don't care
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about is tourist art this is something
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that I've seen a number of times and
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what they're talking about is when you
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buy canvas wall art or any kind of wall
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print of a touristy destination like the
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Eiffel Tower Machu Picchu things like
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that and it's not a photograph that
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you've taken or that you're in it's just
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a random print of that structure or of
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that landscape
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as if there's something wrong with it
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there's nothing wrong with that if you
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love this beautiful black and white
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portrait of the Eiffel Tower put it in
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your living room there's nothing wrong
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with that it's such a a weird thing to
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say is a mistake art is completely
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subjective if you love something and you
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love the way it looks in your space and
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you like the way it makes you feel
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there's nothing wrong with that there's
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no mistake there
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now that we've gotten the mistakes out
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of the way there is some sound advice
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that I often see on these lists and they
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all have to do with spatial Relations
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number one is to measure before you buy
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measuring before you buy is going to
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save you the headache of having to
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return something that is either too big
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or too small and a lot of the times you
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are not going to know that until you get
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it in your house worse what if you can't
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get it in your house at all what if you
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did not measure the width of that sofa
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and the guys come to deliver it and they
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can't get it in your door
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or you get home and you realize this
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sofa barely takes up half of the wall
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that you want to put it on and it looks
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teeny tiny in your huge great room you
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don't want that to happen so for sure
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measure everything twice before you buy
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furniture for your room and before you
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buy artwork for your walls number two is
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area rugs area rugs are one of the most
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important and impactful design elements
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that you can purchase for your home in
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my opinion
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an area rug will help Define a space a
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space that you want to function in a
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certain way and you especially need this
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when you have continuous flooring so if
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all of your downstairs is tile from your
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kitchen to your breakfast area to your
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living room there's no signaling of
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where one space stops and another begins
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and you can do that by adding an area
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rug particularly under your dining area
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and under your living room seating area
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normally you would have a change in
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flooring that's usually the the common
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practice is to have a change in your
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flooring to indicate a new space
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but not all of us have that some you
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might have Hardwoods throughout or like
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I said tile throughout and so then it
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becomes really important to help
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delineate the spaces using an area rug
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will help you
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break up those spaces and identify zones
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within a large continuous flooring
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situation and then you can pull your
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furniture around it and really create an
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enclosed space within a space basically
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next is Furniture lining the room this
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means when you have your furniture
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pushed all the way back up against the
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walls and you have your coffee table
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kind of out in the center of your area
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rug just kind of floating in the center
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of your room but your furniture is
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pushed really far away now
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sometimes you can't help that if your
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room is smaller you can you wouldn't
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push your sofa towards the middle of the
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room if you're trying to maximize the
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amount of space in a room right it's
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just impractical you're a sofa or your
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chairs would be up against the wall this
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is really a recommendation for someone
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that has one of these oversized great
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room kind of situations where you need
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to create your own space within a space
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and anchor your furniture towards the
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center so that your furniture isn't one
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floating out there and looking odd but
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moreover making it comfortable for
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people to be able to have a conversation
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you don't want your sofa and chair and
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loveseat to be so far apart that you
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have to yell to the next person so if
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you have these big giant open spaces you
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want to pull your furniture in to your
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area rug so that you kind of cozy up
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that zone make it a little bit smaller
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and make it so that it's understood that
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these few pieces of furniture are meant
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to be in this area and this is where
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we're to hold a conversation play games
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do whatever it is in that space
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so yes I think that lining your walls
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with furniture is definitely something
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that you want to avoid if you can
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however if you don't have the space you
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don't have the space and that's fine
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next is lighting lighting really does
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make a huge difference a two dimly lit
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kitchen or a two brightly lit bedroom is
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really kind of a nuisance you want to
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have
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not only appropriate lighting for the
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tasks that are happening in that space
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but you also ideally would like to have
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lighting at different levels so you
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would have your overhead lighting you
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may have some eye level kind of task
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lighting and possibly some lower
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lighting like under the cabinet lighting
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and things like that those things really
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help set the mood and make your space a
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little bit more flexible so as you move
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from the daytime to the evening in your
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kitchen you may not need all of your big
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bright Island lights and overhead lights
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you may just want to kind of tone it
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down have some little under the cabinet
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but it doesn't have to be at this like
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full bright setting the same thing for
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the living room right you don't need to
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have your overhead chandelier going you
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can have just your floor lamps on the
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sides of your sofa or maybe some little
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table lamps that you have on a sofa
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table or console table again the bedroom
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you could have Wall sconces you could
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have table lamps you don't have to have
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that big bright overhead light so
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consider your lighting and having
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supplemental lighting so that you can
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kind of tone that mood down when you
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want and it just really create a a nice
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space and a relaxing space to be in the
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last is your wall art hanging height
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there is an ideal height for people to
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be able to enjoy the artwork on your
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walls you don't want to be straining
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your neck up or you don't want to be
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looking down at anything either you want
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it to be right there at eye level when
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people are standing you want that center
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point of your artwork to be at eye level
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so that people can really take in the
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whole piece without having to do a whole
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lot of extra work it's just looks nice
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it's a suggestion it's not a must-have
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it's not a mistake but I do think that
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it makes a difference and I agree when I
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see these on a list that's it for this
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video I hope you found it helpful let me
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know in the comments below if you agree
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with these things just not being
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mistakes and being able to kind of do
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your own thing or if you disagree and
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you think that it's really important to
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adhere to some of these industry
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standards I'd love to hear your opinion
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thanks again for watching don't forget
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