Decorating
Seven Deadly Sins of Design
You can improve any room by avoiding these common decorating mistakes.
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Matchy-Matchy Décor
- When everything matches, the room becomes so safe that it's boring. Buying a suite of furniture of the same design went out decades ago. And although fabric and wallpaper manufacturers offer coordinated patterns to simplify design for the do-it-yourselfer, you should use those coordinates as a background for something old, something personal, something that makes the room your own. At left, designer Victoria Neale chose a yellow and orange palette, rather than a room full of matching pieces, to unify this living area.
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