Big Decor Mistakes & How to Fix Them
Decorating Tips and Tricks
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4.6 • 828 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Big, but fixable. We discuss some big decor mistakes that are easy to make...and almost just as easy to fix with our advice & tips. Listen in and see if you have made any of these decor no no's and if you are being held "hostage by your..."
Kelly's umbrella tip to avoid decor mistakes - Live in the space first. Don't rush your decorating. Rome wasn't built in a day nor should your home be decorated in one.
We start off with carpets.
Make sure your rugs are big enough.
Got shag? :(
Not a mistake to layer rugs. See how Anita does it HERE
Use a rug pad. Kelly tells you why HERE .
Yvonne is feeling too crowded & she is removing something find out what it is....
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. Your designers are here. I'm Anita Cedarill Farmhouse. And I'm Yvonne at Stone Gable. |
| 0:14.4 | And I'm Kelly, I'm my soulful home. And we've got tips and tricks and decorating advice for you. So let's get started. |
| 0:28.6 | Okay. tips and tricks and decorating advice for you. So let's get started. This is episode 103, the biggest decor mistakes and how to fix them. |
| 0:34.7 | Oh, I thought what's to say. And you know, I kind of feel like we're very qualified to speak on this because I think |
| 0:42.3 | about any decorer mistake you can make out there, any decorating mistake, we've made them. |
| 0:47.0 | The three of us have made. |
| 0:48.1 | That's exactly right. |
| 0:49.2 | Well, the thing is, if you do anything enough, you're going to make mistakes. |
| 0:52.8 | And how do you learn from making mistakes? |
| 0:55.7 | That's right. I'm making mistakes. I actually was thinking about this the other day when we were |
| 1:00.3 | discussing like our upcoming topics. And I thought, you know, just like everything else, I have a friend |
| 1:05.7 | who's a baker and he had on his Instagram, wow, big baking fail. And he had a picture of these scones that just totally failed. |
| 1:14.4 | And I thought, well, yeah. |
| 1:15.9 | And just like that, you know, you don't bake things or make things for the first time and get it perfect. |
| 1:22.3 | Why would we think, except making a decorating mistake can be a little more, you know, expensive. |
| 1:29.0 | Exactly. Well, we're going to help you avoid any expensive mistakes or even any inexpensive |
| 1:33.7 | mistakes. But, you know, if you're not trying, if you're not taking risks and you're not |
| 1:38.2 | pushing your creativity a little bit, then you're probably playing it too safe. And maybe you're |
| 1:42.4 | not making any mistakes. But anybody who's out there and decorating and trying some new things |
| 1:48.0 | and pushing their creative envelope a little bit is certainly going to end up |
| 1:51.9 | with some batch of bad scones, so to speak, now and again. |
| 1:56.1 | But, you know, I have, we know of a way to absolutely avoid making any mistakes for your window treatments. |
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