You're listening to the beautiful mess podcast this week we're weighing in on which design

rules were made to be broken and which ones you should probably stick to.

It's an opinion episode we know that you love these because you can either nod your head

along with us or you can gasp and whore and throw something at your phone either way.

We're here for it.

We're also answering a couple of listener questions from our new hotline so let's jump in.

In this episode I'm pretty much going to read off design rules and we're going to be like

yes important no not important but before again I wanted to ask you do you feel like

you're influenced by design rules and if so how much?

I think I probably should be more like I basically think I'm a real winged person and then

sometimes I learn a rule and I'm like oh actually that's really helpful so that's you

know my I don't know maybe that's like a humble thing to admit but there you have it.

So yeah I would say I'm influenced by him but also I don't I'm not always aware of them.

I definitely am a you know dance to the beat of my own drum person so I don't always know.

I think I feel similar to you.

I a lot of times get a design rule in my head and it just is like an annoying voice where

I'm like like come on do I have to follow that you know and a lot of them are snobby.

So it's like you actually don't have to follow all of them but you know like sometimes

it can just be like something that makes you feel insecure which isn't helpful but other

times like learning to hang my curtains you guys know I'm crazy about like the curtain

lights and everything the proper curtain etiquette that kind of stuff I think is actually

useful like when I learned how to buy the right size rug you know things like that.

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