Everyone wants a decent and beautiful home. And to get that look, you can swap your sofa for a sumptuous sofa, or your floor lamps for tasteful sconces. When it comes to decorating your home, take this tip: updating the decoration of your residence has less to do with what you don’t have and more to do with what you do.
For example, getting rid of your vertical blinds is a much more elegant move than simply covering them with trendy curtains. Or getting your posters out without a frame, even if it results in stark bare walls, is an instant way to enhance the style of your home.
So, read on and learn what decorative traps you should purge from your home right now if you want to see it less artificial and with more natural and valuable elements, definitely removing things or supplying them for their elegant and valuable counterpart. You don’t need a lot of money for that.
30 ways to decorate your home that ruin its image and value
Learn these 20 things that no woman looking for a dignified decoration should have in her home.
Anything Macramé
It seems that every few years, the powers that be insist on the incipient return of macramé. In your home, you seek to eliminate the “eclectic style by force”, forget about this decorative, which, although cute, only in a 100% boho or rustic decoration could justifiably fit.
Large artificial plants
A small fake flower can be charming. But please, leave the big fake plants in doctor’s offices and bank waiting rooms. Not only are they ugly, they literally only exist to collect dust.
Chairs type Bean Bags
If you are no longer a child or adolescent, you should put away children’s things, such as bean bags or bean bags. Instead, invest in a really comfortable chair that you can work on, sit down to watch your favorite series, or simply a chair that will give your entire space a decorative height status.
Plastic fruit
A small rubber grape that someone might mistake for the real ones is never acceptable. You know what else is not either? An oversized, totally fake peach that will serve as nothing more than a functionally useless dust magnet.
Word decals
Word stickers have a perhaps unearned reputation; Every time people unfold these accents, they seem to represent the most absurd claims, when you actually use them to decorate your home . (Have we had enough of “Smile.Live.Mistress”?). As such, even if you’re citing Jung, this look inevitably comes across as a bit cheesy to fit into the weighty decor you’re after.
Neon bar lights
Unless these vivid lights are handled with extreme taste (like highly stylized retro-chic), leave them where they belong: on the bar.
Checkered bathroom tile
Checkered bathroom tile always seems like a good idea when you’ve had a few drinks. Why? Probably because it is so reminiscent of a bath in a pub or the clinic around your house that you would never go to. Once you’re sober, you’ll find that it just makes your bathroom seem like a cold, clinical space (in case you hadn’t noticed).
Let’s say that there is nothing wrong with that type of tile, but there are in fact special paints to make the walls easier to clean, and tell me, what do you prefer? Square, moldy tiles or a well-defined color paint over your bathroom? There are other types of tiles that will also give a cozy touch to your most intimate space.
Vertical blinds
Vertical blinds are an unfortunate remnant of a bygone era in decorating. Let’s say, very functional they don’t turn out to be either. They are not effective when open when the light comes in, and they cast unwanted shadows across any room. The less said about them, the better.
Empty shelves
Shelves are meant to hold things. (Even if those things don’t turn out to be a full-blown personal library.) That’s all.
Guns on the wall
It is a somewhat strange hobby to want to display weapons as a decorative element in our home spaces. At best, it’s immature, and at worst, a little scary. Keep them, forever. If your space is not the study of the palace of the historical and revolutionary character that you like the most, better hide them very well, so no child can reach them.
Mason Jars or decorative glass jars everywhere in your home
Mason Jars have their role and place. Keep the products preserved during the low season. Using them as decoration ornaments in the interior of your home (in any area), they will not give you any plus or real value. Only to the shelf in the cannery. Better to remove them from sight unless you are thinking of using them for your friend’s baby shower as prizes or table decorations.
Frameless posters to decorate your house is lousy
It’s okay to stick posters or posters to your walls if you live in a college dorm or your teenager’s room, it may be justified there. But if your criteria are already other than, of a teenager or university youth, and you are on the hunt for decorative elements that will give absolutely a twist to the disaster of your space in your student years, please, place a sober frame on your posters (and we will also have to see the theme of it) is the best you can give your home to make it look decent.
Giant stuffed animals
These are only appropriate if you have children. If not, they are extremely inappropriate. Maybe you won one in a raffle or fun fair and now you have no idea what to do with it. There is a simple solution: donate it to your friends’ children.
Bedspreads with ruffles
Do you want to banish the sensual energy from your room for all eternity? Equip your bed with these genuinely puritanical styles. Do you agree that only our great-grandmothers used them? Leave that for a baby’s bassinet, and even then, you will always find other simpler and more elegant ways to decorate it.
Taxidermy
This spooky decorating faux pas is best relegated to the last century, even if you do it “ironically.” A dead squirrel in a cowboy outfit is not a cool or fun thing to do. Again, this type of decoration is only for the right places for it: the study or library of some eccentric hunter who takes pleasure in killing animals and displaying them in his space.
Giant lips as decorative elements are in bad taste
From lip-shaped chairs to lip-shaped mirrors, the lip motif is everywhere in the decor. Some people even think that it “turns on”. A really like this option, in that case, would be a sumptuous and robust sofa, upholstered in red, that involves lips without putting them in front of your face.
Wicker armchairs in the interior
They work perfectly well on a terrace. They work next to the water (pool, lake or beach). That’s all.
Pastel pink, a color that does not give strength to the decoration
Bright colors can work great as vibrant pops of color. Colors that are not pink (such as lavender or lilac) can work as muted balancing hues. But pastel pink almost always looks sad and old-fashioned. At worst designs, this shade has a cheap kitschy motel vibe.
Vintage refrigerators
Nostalgia is nice, but not when it comes to appliances. That’s when it just gets kitsch and inconvenient; in other words, it takes up too much space in your kitchen, which is probably not that style. Unless you have a cool, ergonomic fridge in mind, the kind of fridge that looks retro but really works well, skip this option entirely.
Pillows with honeyed phrases
Leave them to memes. You want comfort from your pillows, never look for that type of pillows or cushions. And besides, these things tend to be cheap.
A futon is not the best when it comes to looking for a more valuable decoration
On paper, the futon sounds like an ergonomic decorating marvel. In reality, however, it is little more than an emblem of your indecision. Do you want a sofa or a bed? Choose one. And if you’re decorating with frequent guests in mind, grab a pull-out sofa.
A fern to decorate a home interior is a bit old-fashioned
Ferns are excellent plants. But as elements of home decor, they look old-school and lack imagination. Maybe you should take it out to your patio to decorate that lifeless corner that only collects fungus from so much humidity. Your fern will greatly appreciate it. And better still, place a banana tree in that window where you had the fern near your living room. Works better. Or even a simple split-leaf philodendron.
A freestanding bathtub to decorate your bathroom
These bathtubs can look very mid-century. But freestanding tubs also take up a huge amount of space, and they also use a lot more water than regular bathtubs. Tread cautiously when considering installing one, and try to actually make the surroundings of that tub work for your style.
Sports trophies are not a good element to decorate your home
It is always good to show your skills and talents. But longtime sports trophies don’t count for decorating a home, and they never will. We’re really sorry, maybe in your exercise room or at the gym.
A mattress on the floor
You have grown. It may have been chic in your younger days, but for now, it’s time to get yourself a bed frame. And maybe even a header.
