Do you get tired following every rule in the book, trying to replicate those designer interiors that look good in pictures but in reality aren’t what they’re cracked up to be? If you think about it, the top priority of your home decor is to make it look unique, personal and really your own. There’s no rule for that.
So today, we’re breaking the rules. While there are so many of them, here are just top 15 that you can break and be confident about it.
Break a rule, hang wall art off center or over the door, give a decor piece a new purpose. In the room pictured above, wall art is hung unusually low to be a part of a layered vignette (yes, you can block wall pictures like that, they work like a backdrop pattern in this case).
Chairs Don’t Have to Be All Off (or On) the Rug
Let the furniture arrangement flow and allow some freedom for character. Let the guests choose themselves where the chairs should stand.
Small furniture saves space but you don’t have to frame a small room as a tiny doll house. A well chosen and placed bigger furniture will actually be more functional and make the room look bigger.
So you have an art piece of a specific pattern as the accent, but you can mix several if you find balance between sizes and spacing.
Your home decor doesn’t have to be all modern Scandinavian or classic traditional, you can mix and match styles to get a unique combination.
Having different metals or metal patterns for light fixtures, furniture and wall decor can actually work very well together as long as they’re balanced out.
You Don’t Need to Have a Sofa in Your Living Room
Have chairs instead and it opens up the space and allows you to break the traditional living room layout frame.
You don’t have to buy furniture in sets. Just because you’ve bought a sofa, you don’t have to buy a matching coffee table and chairs. Mix and match furniture for your individual decor that looks like it took time to arrange.
While bright colors open up space and make it look bigger, you don’t have to necessarily limit yourself to just light schemes. A dark room can have a great character.
While rugs anchor the room decor and add softness, a bare floor keeps the space open and makes it look bigger. So don’t take the necessity of a rug too seriously.
You don’t have to have all chairs at the dining table identical. Mixing and matching adds a unique character.
The Center Piece Doesn’t Have to Be the Most Expensive Thing in the Room
In fact, it can be the cheapest as long as it has character.
Besides light colors, the conventional decor rules say that you should play it safe in small spaces. Break the rule and don’t be afraid to experiment and add drama with patterns and color explosion.
That ugly duct can actually work to your advantage as an accent.
No, it doesn’t necessarily have to be white. In this case the walls look lower but it really opens up the ceiling.
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Original article and pictures take industrystandarddesign.com site
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