DeBunking Decorating Myths That May Have You Fooled
Decorating Tips and Tricks
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Beware of these decorating myths! Let's discuss these 'rules' that aren't really rules!
This first myth is - Small rooms must be painted white - FALSE!
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| 0:00.0 | Are you being misled by the decorating myths? |
| 0:09.6 | Hey everybody, it's Kelly Wilkins here with Anita Joyce, and this is Decorating Tips and Tricks. |
| 0:18.5 | Today, we are discussing decorating myths to stop following. |
| 0:23.9 | There's so many out there, and they just float around in the general consciousness. And most |
| 0:31.6 | of them, if not all of them, are incorrect. Or what could be incorrect for your room. So today we are going to go through the |
| 0:39.7 | myths that are out there. We're going to debunk. And we're going to tell you why you don't need |
| 0:45.0 | to be following that. And you should be following your own instincts and advice that you get from |
| 0:50.9 | trusted experts such as us or somebody that you know. But these myths are not for |
| 0:58.1 | every room, not for every house, and many of them are not even true at all in any place at any time. |
| 1:06.3 | That's true. And some of these were just things that were done for a long time because people thought |
| 1:12.1 | certain things, but there was no basis for it. So you're right about that, Kelly. And it's amazing |
| 1:17.6 | how many of these things have become part of the decorating lore. Yes, myths just they circulate |
| 1:25.4 | out there in the culture, in the collective consciousness, |
| 1:30.2 | about so many things. |
| 1:32.5 | And decorating is one of those things. |
| 1:34.5 | And they just get passed from person to person. |
| 1:37.0 | And then they get legitimized because they've been repeated so many times. |
| 1:43.0 | So they're kind of lies almost, but we don't want to say that because we don't want you to think people have been telling you lies. But there are myths. And we are here to tell you that you can stop following the ones you may be following. So you've got to listen to figure out whether or not you're actually doing that and how |
| 2:01.3 | you can stop. Well said. Are you ready to get into the list? Yeah. All right. Small rooms must be |
| 2:08.9 | painted white. And I heard that from the very beginning. And it's just not true. People assume that if you paint walls white, the room will automatically |
| 2:21.8 | feel larger. But sometimes color depth can create more dimension than stark white walls do. |
| 2:29.5 | And darker colors like deep greens, navy blues, and chargels can actually make the walls visually recede, |
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