ForLook Interior Design

There are a few golden rules when it comes to decorating successfully. There are also a few no-no’s that can make your home look like a designer crime scene. To avoid being ridiculed by the design-conscious, at least do not commit any of the following three absolute no-no’s:..

Bathroom carpets

Property developers are still carpeting bathrooms. I’m not sure who in their right mind came up with this ridiculous flooring solution in the first place?  Carpets in bathroom are unhygienic because they get damp - an ideal environment for germs to thrive! Not to mention the pee marks around toilets… you get the picture?  If you have carpet in bathrooms - get rid of it NOW!

Matchy-matchy rooms

The Laura Ashley look that was so successful in 80’s and still being used in many country hotels & B&B’s  - where the curtains , bed linen, cushions, borders, wallpaper etc match perfectly - but certainly do not create a perfect look, that’s for sure. This sort of decorating is just naff and tacky. If you like frills and the chintzy look, just have fun with a couple of carefully selected patterns or shapes. They do not need to match as long as there is visual or physical relationship between them - such as colours, textures, materials etc…

Themed interiors

This is the unfortunate Changing Room Syndrome that made people believe that successful interiors must be based on a clichéd interior style. WRONG.  When you decorate a room in your home, you must take into consideration the architecture of the building, the style of the rest of the house and the way you live. Having a baroque dining room in a modern building just looks and feels wrong; the same way as remodelling the kitchen into an ultra-chic space, when the rest of your home is decorated in a traditional way. The worst scenario is when each room has its own theme but there is no correlation between them. Unless you’re running a small seaside hotel, this sort of interior decorating is truly tacky. Sure, a home should have a theme - but an overall theme, where there is some kind of connection between spaces and/or details. Also, a theme should be subtle and conceptional, having references to other cultures and classic styles - not looking like a cliché or replication.

We could think of many other decorating crimes such as reproduction, ornamentation, bad paint effects, bad use of colour, and so on… but we reckon the above three to be the major ones that could murder an interior. Can you think of any other? If so, let us know below!