Interior Design Mistakes Making Your Home Look Cheap

I grew up so poor that when I finally had money to buy a bedroom set where the furniture matched I was so happy I almost cried. I really felt rich! So it is definitely a relative thing as far as how we interpret stuff. I agree now that more variety is better, but that memory humbles me and makes me feel grateful for everything I have.

Our family has a portrait of a fake ancestor that has actually been passed down because we love the joke of a fake ancestor!

Saying cropped curtains look like you’re about to start a puppet show sent me 😂

I fell in love with a very simple desert scene watercolor at my local Good Will. My friend did not like the 'old piece of junk'. She buys new. Anyway, it turned out to be an original Mongolian watercolor signed and in great shape. The last one like it sold for 650.$ Now she decided she likes it... But I really could care less about it's monetary value. It's simply beautiful.

"We don't live laugh love it anymore, we never really did" -- 😂🤣😆

When my husband and I moved into our first, little, bachelor, apartment; my mom took me shopping at a Winners/ Homesense for things we would need in the apartment. I saw a print of a painting I really liked. It was a bit abstract, but had a serene feeling. Like trees being reflected in water, but it was so close up you could barely tell. I showed my mom and she said "it's beautiful, but don't buy it, I'll make you one just like it". And she did. Except the one she made is way better. Her grandmother was a skilled palette knife painter in Montreal. She thrifted an old canvas print, white washed it and palette knife painted it. It's not only colorful, but beautifully textured. And she put splashes of gold metallic paint here and there, so it shimmers at sunset. It makes my home feel like a sophisticated, adult, space, with a touch of whimsy.

My mom likes giant art so much she painted a 4 foot by 4 foot picture of Jupiter from the perspective of one of the moons. The level of detail is insane. She once told me "oh I just work on this painting when I'm bored it's a lot of fun"

My sister had those cheap small 3 inch baseboards and builder grade hollow doors. She didn’t have the money to replace them, so she bought the cheapest trim she could find and placed it a couple inches above her baseboards and then painted the baseboards, the trim and the wall between them all the same color. So now they look like larger boards with some interesting trim. She did basically the same with her plain doors. She used trim and framed in the doors and made the frames around them bigger with trim and paint as well, just like the baseboards. Got new knobs and painted all the doors that all are basically side by side down the hallway a beautiful green color and wallpapered the hall walls. She spent under 500 dollars (got new light fixtures and light switches) and the before and after are just incredible, it looks like a new home. Really proud of her❤ Hope this helps anyone else on a budget and sick of their basic boring homes.

Ya know... I like your videos, but in what consumerist hellscape are people replacing their flooring every 7 years? lol

I remember when it looked cheap to have all mismatched hand-me-downs. Only rich people could afford a matching set. I love that my 35-year-old mixed junk makes me look rich now!!

Thank you for mentioning the words and quotes thing. One of my pet peeves is a room that has, in giant letters, KITCHEN or LAUNDRY. Like, I know what room I'm in.

Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love🧿

I agree with most of this, but full bookshelves (especially with books people actually read and/or consult) never look cheap to me.

"Who buys a boob light? They just appear in the wild." Man's out here treating lighting like a Pokémon. 🤣 Love your channel.

Cropped curtains are unfortunately a MUST during winters, when you have radiators under every window. They blast full heat (central heating) and you are not supposed to cover them with anything which prevents the warmth spreading around - or is a fire hazard. This might not be clear if you live in a warmer country, but the radiators here in Scandinavia/Nordics even have the text: "do NOT cover". During summers I let my curtains kiss the floor, but when October comes with the snow and cold, I pin them up with safety pins. Comfort and safety come before style! Form follows function!

The coolest wall filler I have is an art quilt I found entirely by accident - the steak house we go to has rotating artist's work on the walls, and I fell in love with a small abstract art quilt in bold colors. I contacted the artist and had her reserve it for me after the show was over. It was $150 but frankly that was a steal for the amount of labor that goes into even a small quilt, and it's now the centerpiece of my living room.

I have a generic art and quote. It's a tree silhouette. The quote says "What matters most in life are quotes and stuff that tell you what life is really about. And here's a picture of a tree." Very GenX. I love it.

Builders and landlords are keeping the Boob Light/vertical blind manufacturers in business that’s for sure. They have them delivered in bulk in the dark of night wrapped in nondescript brown paper 😂

I am an artist. I do art for my home, for my friends and clients. I also, buy art for myself from other artists. Supporting your local artists is not expensive as you think, and it's very trendy 🥰

Here in the UK, if there are radiators under windows, we don't usually have floor-length curtains. It wastes expensive energy because all that gets warm is the curtain and the window.