100 Decorating Tips From Best Interior Designers 8/10

Part eight of 100 very useful decorating tips from best interior designers in the world gathered by HouseBeautiful. Follow Best Interior Designers and stay up to date with our latest posts: facebook, twitter, pinterest

Small Abstract sculpture is an instant way to modernize a traditional room. It could make J.P. Morgan’s death chamberlook modern – David Netto
You can’t use a roller to apply high.gloss paint. You’ll end up with “orange peel” walls. A texture you don’t really want – Todd Klein
I’m not sure dining chairs need to be comfortable. It encourages bad posture and dozing off… If they’re slightly uncomfortable, it keeps people attentive to the conversation. I choose them for looks only – Robert Couturier
A rectangular table is ideal at about 36” in width. This allows for conversation with your neighbors to the right and left and across the table, a real bonus – Charlotte Moss
My favorite trick is to paint the interior of an ordinary black paper lampshade either shocking pink or red, so that it acts like a vermillion lining in an overcoat. It’s instantly makes the light rosy and glowing – Miles Redd
Limit overhead can lighting to functional areas such as bathrooms and laundry rooms – the light is too harsh and flat for your living areas – Timothy Corrigan
Once you’ve used a fabric in a room, never use it anywhere else in the house. Do not match your fabrics! Do not let your fabrics make your room look decorator-y – Garrow Kedigian
Don’t ever put a round dining table in a long, skinny, rectangular room, and vice versa – never a rectangular dining table in a square room. Just don’t – T. Keller Donovan
A simple sisal rug in natural or grey is the best way to make a room look clean and elegant – James Huniford
Most pillow fillers you buy commercially don’t fill the corners of the pillows, so take cotton batting and stuff the interior corners of the cover – it gives a more full feel to the pillows – Marshall Watson