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Dear Alice | Interior Design

Top 5 Mistakes in Space Planning

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Arts, Design, Visual Arts

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Are you making common space planning mistakes that are holding your home back? In this episode of Dear Alice, we break down the top 5 space planning mistakes in interior design and how to avoid them when designing or renovating your home. We cover why vantage points matter the moment you walk into a room, explain how pushing furniture against the walls can make rooms feel disconnected, and dive into one of the most frequent design issues: scale, from rugs and sofas that are too small to choosing the wrong proportions for the space. Finally, we tackle a classic but costly mistake: not measuring before designing, sharing best-practice walkway dimensions, and why carrying a measuring tape (and keeping notes on your phone) is a non-negotiable habit for great design. Whether you’re working with an interior designer or planning your space on your own, this episode is packed with practical interior design tips, space planning rules, and professional insights to help you create a home that feels intentional, functional, and beautifully designed. Shop Alice Lane: https://alicelanehome.com/ Sign up for our Insider Rewards Program and get 10% off your next purchase: https://alicelanehome.com/pages/insider-program Watch our latest videos here: https://www.youtube.com/@alicelane/videos Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/alicelanehome & https://instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHome/ Listen to the Dear Alice Podcast on Apple, Spotify, & YouTube. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1484569777 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Ds3StWWFdDSukhY7s7l6w?si=31a9a48bb7e5471a For more design tips and tricks, read the Alice Lane Blog here: https://alicelanehome.com/blogs/blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:23.3

Solid.

0:24.1

I love space planning. That's what we're going to talk

0:26.8

about today. I love it. Welcome everyone to Dear Alice to another episode where we are going to discuss

0:33.7

the space plan like Sue said. Yep. And specifically what not to do.

0:37.7

We can tell you what to do, but we really want to like let you know what to avoid or what

0:42.0

to look around at your own home and be like, shoot, guilty.

0:46.2

I could, we all have things like that.

0:48.0

Oh my gosh.

0:48.9

Yep.

0:49.3

Yeah.

0:49.6

Yeah.

0:49.7

This room is not fulfilling the measure of its creation.

0:53.2

No, we're probably all going to roast each other today. Who knows? Who knows what's going to happen? I probably have 60% of my house. I love it. But we want you to be better. We do. We want you guys to live the dream. And so we're going to go through our five top mistakes that we see in space planning. And if you have one of them,

1:11.6

it's okay. It just means that now you know you're informed and you are going to have a better space plan this year. You're going to live more beautifully. Yeah. Yep. It's not hard. It just is rearranging the furniture for the most part. Maybe you're going to grab stuff from other rooms. Maybe you're going to put it all in the blender, spit it out differently. You love doing this. I love it. Oh my gosh. I love it so much. If I could have delivery guys once a week. Furnish your smoothie all day long. I wouldn't that be fun. It would be so much fun. Yeah. It feels response. It feels like recycling. I know, right? But it's such a mood boost. Exactly. Yeah. So I want to teach you guys how to do it.

1:45.0

It's going to be really fun. I wanted to say the President's Day sale is on and pop in at Alice Lane home. It's site-wide sale of 20% off. So you can have your own category. Whatever you want, whatever you need, everything's on sale. So go get it while the getting is good. It started on the ninth and it will go through the 16th.

2:01.3

So you've got four days left.

2:02.7

So we're smack dab in the middle of it. And I also wanted

2:05.8

to tell you if you haven't yet checked out the new series, Dear Alice, the reveal. It's live on

2:11.1

YouTube and you can go check it out. It went live at the end of January and we took them inside

2:16.5

our Odessa, Texas install. ALID was there for a week. You got to see this beautiful dream home come together, and we're so excited to get to share it with you. Okay, before we jump into it, I was thinking maybe we define space planning for the people, and then tell them why it's important and why we're discussing it's true it is kind of a fancy word

2:34.3

most people might not know okay so you're asking me yeah asking me okay i wrote down my own definition

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