5 Decorating Mistakes | Clutterbug Podcast # 16
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🗓️ 24 February 2017
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm ding, d'g, d'a lang, a lang, a lang, baa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a- Hey guys, so welcome back. I get asked by you guys all the time for decorating tips or decorating advice and I am definitely not an expert but I thought I would share five |
| 0:25.1 | decorating mistakes and if you avoid these mistakes it can definitely make your |
| 0:30.2 | house look a lot better. Let's get started with decorating mistake number one and I see this all the time at friends and family when I go to visit. |
| 0:38.0 | So many people make this mistake and that is hanging your artwork and pictures too high. You want to hang your artwork or |
| 0:45.7 | your family photos at gallery level. So that's at eye level. Now if you're |
| 0:50.0 | freakishly tall, it's not at your eye level. |
| 0:52.6 | It is the average 5-6 to 5-7 person's eye level. |
| 0:56.4 | So the center of the artwork, the center of the photo |
| 0:59.8 | would be right directly at eye level. |
| 1:02.5 | Now if you're hanging something behind a sofa or a chair, |
| 1:06.7 | the general rule of thumb is 8 to 10 inches, |
| 1:09.8 | no higher than that above the back of the sofa or the back of the thing that you're |
| 1:15.0 | hanging it above. |
| 1:16.5 | If you're creating a gallery wall and you're grouping a large amount of pictures together, |
| 1:21.0 | again just make sure the center of the group is at gallery level is at eye level. |
| 1:26.2 | So some of the pictures will be really high and some will low, but as long as the center |
| 1:30.4 | of the grouping is at eye level, that's perfect. And make sure to group your photos |
| 1:35.4 | close together. This is another mistake that a lot of people make when hanging |
| 1:39.8 | family photos or artwork on the walls, they space them so far apart it can look kind of |
| 1:45.3 | awkward and yeah group them together group them tighter together and make sure you put them at eye level. It makes a really big difference in just the overall look and feel of the room. |
| 1:58.0 | Mistake number two that I see all the time is having a lopsided or unbalanced, unsymmetrical room. So a lot of the times |
| 2:06.7 | there'll be furniture like piled all on one side of the room and then nothing on the other |
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