do you hate a room in your house and don’t know why even though it’s already decorated? behold: my guide to not hating that room, brought to you by my own personal discoveries and design accidents
not to sound like one of the listicles I write for work, but here are five things you can add to a room (individually or all of them) to make you like it more
1. Small Lamp
“I don’t need a lamp — I have the Big Light and it doesn’t bother me.”
Get lamp. It makes the room softer. Great for bedrooms. Doesn’t have to be pricey either — I got one for $15 at Home Sense and when I turned it on, I was like “oh 🧍”
2. Plants (Real or Fake)
Now I really am going to sound like a listicle but there have been studies that have shown that greenery (real AND fake) can reduce stress levels because you’re a fucking mammal Susan and you need greenery in your enclosure.
Plants also make a space look dope as hell. Check out any Pinterest photo. Does it have plants in it? Remove the plants with your eyes. Do you still like the room or was it just the plants? You could still like the room, but the plants add something.
Consider getting a big leafy boy for the corner of the room you don’t like, or grabbing one from another part of your house. If you have a shelf or a dresser/bookcase, get a plant that hangs down a little.
3. Curtains
Curtains are great if you can’t paint because they can add a lot of color or patterns to one wall. They can be a little pricey, but sometimes you can find good deals on basic colors. They sell in panels, though, so keep that in mind.
“I already have curtains tho — it doesn’t make sense to get more.” If you don’t like your curtains and you can afford it, switch them out. Trying to work with curtains that are a color you despise won’t make you like the room more.
If you don’t know what color to go with, check out rooms on Pinterest with similar color palettes and see what they’re using. If you don’t have a color palette and you don’t have one in mind, try going with your favorite color and then going from there.
4. Duplicate Something You Like From Another Room
One of my favorite rooms in my house is my living room bc I’m a color slut, and one of my favorite things in it is this chidi rug I got from a clearance store. I brought it into my bedroom to make sure I liked it in there first before I went and got another one from Five Below, and I love it in there.
5. Books
This is the one that actually inspired me to make this post bc it was so easy I wanted to eat drywall. If you love books and/or have books somewhere else in your house, go grab a handful of them that are in the color palette you want for that room and arrange them on a shelf in that room.
It adds a lot of color in a short amount of time, and you don’t have to buy anything.
I literally just did this in my bedroom with pink, orange, and yellow books and mirrored what I have going on in my office where there’s some stacked and some vertical and then, on the stacked ones, you put a little plant (real or fake).
Instantly liked my bookcase-turned-dresser; it was embarrassing.
These are just five things I’ve personally found have really made a room come together and have made me hate it less 🤝 hopefully it helps other folks in the same boat
