Are you a design rebel?
What's your first instinct if someone tells says you shouldn't do something? Do you automatically want to do it? I do! Most people would agree that there are rules/guidelines in interior design. They impact decisions about all sorts of things, e.g., hanging lights, choosing the right scale furniture, selecting colour schemes, etc. I guess following them is a little like following a recipe - you get a predictable result. Someone else has done all the thinking for you which makes it easy but, you also get a very generic looking space where everything looks controlled. I always think about those generic spaces as the "Pinterest look" . You know the rooms, all beautifully organized, cutely accessorized with whatever is trendy at the time, and perfectly matched. Does that make them wrong? Definitely not. I firmly believe we should all live in spaces that make us happy and comfortable. W...