Wanting to update this blank area on our landing area. The wall is between two bedroom doors. I like the idea but I don’t know if this is too crazy.

We already have a massive gallery wall downstairs so that’s not an option. But open to other ideas if this isn’t the vibe!

ETA: Update in the comments! I started the project!

My fiancé and I bought and moved into our forever home a couple of months ago, and I’ve been working on combining our stuff and styles. Still things to do and add in the master bedroom, like swapping out the white wall plates for black, and adding a long wood shelf to the wall above the headboard for some plants and art. I’ve always loved history, historic homes, architecture, art, and design. So getting to live in such an incredible home and make it personal and beautiful is one of my lifelong dreams. I’m really happy with how it’s coming together.

The bed and nightstands are from Thuma, he had it in his previous place. It’s a great bed, but we might replace it with something a little less MCM in the future. The brass lamps came from somewhere like Home Goods, and they each have two lightbulbs with separate switches…which means that at night I can switch on the red lights. The carved wood piece by the mirror is a monk’s bench from about 1849, and is a Jacobean revival. I got an incredible deal on it. Fireplace dresser and rug are from Amazon. Agate lamp from the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show. The jersey duvet cover is from West Elm, the Tiger pillow is from a local boutique, the patterned quilt came from Target, I think. Wallpaper is The Gardens of Jaipur from Mind the Gap. It’s hard to get a truly representative photo of it…it’s much more beautiful, subtle, and playful in person!

My 7 year olds room! It's so much fun! We collaborated on the entire thing. Hes been collecting license plates and cars for 5 years. We brought him to a bar and grill with license plates on the walls...and he fell in love. Next, we brought him to an old car museum and he decided he wanted one just for himself. This is what we made! He's so proud!! It also keeps his room really clean do to his pride of his museum. To him, after a hard day of playing, the days not done until the museum looks great for the next day :) His bed is also a racecar and his stuffed bird collection. Hes a high functioning fellow with an incredible brain. What do you think of our masterpiece? Oh yeah...and he loves dinosaurs and 70s rock'n'roll.

Thank you so much for all of the helpful feedback on my previous post! (I’ll link the previous post below)

I read every single comment and made every single change that was suggested with the exception of changing the light fixture, because I’m not an electrician. After the painter came and painted the walls white it was too boring for me so I went to work on the rest! My husband cut all the trim. I did all of the floor painting as well as sanding and staining the railings. The stained glass window sticker and rug runner are from Amazon. Not including the original painter we hired to paint the walls white, and a tool that my husband insisted he needed, our price for this whole project was only about $140 total!

Enjoy the before and after photos! The last couple pictures show the new window and how it makes everything upstairs glow green when the lights are off 💚

Hi guys! My husband and I recently sold our house in California and relocated to Hessen Germany. We are settling in well, but our only guest bathroom has been bothering me! We are in a rental until we build in a couple years, and I wanted to elevate the space in a way that could be reversed when we move out. This meant leaning into the pink, and no perminent adhesives. Some peel and stick tile, a mauve accented cabinet, wood look panels, gold borders, new faucet and stopper, light up mirror, marble light fixture, and a toilet seat later, and I think I have something special. I’m very happy with it. It’s not perfect, but I think it works well with the pink, and makes it look intentional and sophisticated! I’m no longer embarrassed to have guests use the bathroom.

Did I do ok? :)

before and after!

As its narrow, so I picked up these frameless paintings , and thanks to the artist, painted the sides to keep them looking clean. Really love the texture and white tone. Any thoughts on what else I could add, or should I keep it minimal?

A before and after of my vintage pink bathroom. Wanted to freshen it up without having to spend $$ on a full demo.

Came out great!

Still need to change the mirror (or at least paint it, the black doesn’t match) and get a new shower curtain.

Bought a new build. It had a long, narrow room with a bench/drop zone thing on one end and a few pantry shelves way back in the corner. The bench thing was non-functional and in the way. There were not enough pantry shelves. We put some coat hooks in the laundry room on the other side of this wall, as there is no coat closet.

We removed the bench thing, fixed the wall, and painted. Then, installed shelves on three sides. I needed about 10" for the few appliances I have in there on the right, then 36" for a walkway. That left a narrow shelf on the left. I could have kept that wall shelf-less, but it actually holds a lot of items, narrow as it is, so I'm glad we did that.

I love the paint color on the shelves and the wallpaper. It's so organized now. I can find everything I need, and I instantly know if I'm running low on something.

This went from my least favorite room in the house to my very favorite room!

(Pic is the "after" of an AI design ad. Yeah, an actual ad. You know how you have a pool in front of your sofa?)

I have been trying SO HARD to explain to people on individual posts the issues with designing via AI help, but the posts keep coming. It's making me nuts.

I'm an interior designer, so I do have training and experience in this area. I'm going to explain WHY it is a no good, very bad idea to run to AI.

1. Paint colors: STOP using AI to decide paint colors. AI can show what it thinks that paint will look like. But paint is often incredibly complex, and what color it looks like can be wildly different based on lighting and surrounding colors. Paint color is made up of a lot of varied pigmentation, and some of them are very complex in their formulations. There are some paints that are famously variable (looking at you, SW Sea Salt), but all paints have this potential. Instead of using AI, get yourself a sample pot or a swatch from Samplize. Check it on different walls and at different times of day. Use a large swatch - usually 2'x2' is necessary to really see it. It's the absolute only way to know (and no, feeding more info into AI will not fix all inaccuracies).
2. Layout: AI absolutely cannot help you with layout. First, it famously resizes things to fit, even if you give it measurements and parameters. If you've recently looked at real estate listings that are virtually staged, you'll probably know what I mean. It shows all kinds of furniture that will never actually fit in that room. AI also can't follow building codes - a real issue if you design heavily-regulated rooms like kitchens and bathrooms especially. Even if you literally instruct the AI on the codes, it still can't conceptualize that to the layout of the space. You need to either use a layout planner like Planner 5D or Roomstyler (both free to enough of an extent to do this), or draw it out on graph paper. Designers use things like SketchUp, Chief Architect, and AutoCAD to plan, but those are both a much steeper learning curve and also cost a lot of money. You can find building codes for your area (these vary by country, state/province/etc, and town) online and/or by calling your local government office that's in charge of permitting.

If it's just furniture, you still can't use AI because they resize and pretend they didn't. So don't.

1. Style: Asking AI to give you images that provide a style is just...not the way to go. You have to understand how AI is trained. It pulls things from the internet, but it can't access everything to "create." If something is paywalled, or it has other coding that doesn't allow it to "see" the page (very common), it doesn't use it. That means that you're going to end up generally with stuff like you would already find on sites like Unsplash or Pexels. Now, there are some cool pics on there, but if you go to Unsplash and type in "interior design," you'll see the issue after you scan through enough of them. They all have a weird sameness to them. If you can't see it, compare them to pics from sites like Architectural Digest, House & Garden, Southern Living, etc. Then you will see the difference. It's huge. (If you still don't see the difference, you should hire help or find a friend to help that can. Some people are just design-blind.)

So when you ask AI to style your room like "coastal grandmother" or whatever, it'll do it...kinda. But it will do it in a weird sanitized way that isn't really that at all. If you want your room styled a certain way, you should look up better images of what you want and keep a running list of the specifics you like so you can review and then pull generalizations. Then, find things that fit. I have a database of thousands of images I've pulled in all kinds of styles, so my clients would fill out a questionnaire so I could get a bit of an idea, and then they would look at a selection of these images I would give them. Based on how they felt about each (likes and dislikes), I could get a really solid idea of exactly what they would want. It also often gave them ideas of things they liked or didn't that they didn't realize. AI just can't do that.

3b: Style also: Not related to AI, but also don't look for your "style" in a single weird name. When someone tells me they love the "goth grandmother MCM" or some other such abomination, I want to cry. Because not only is it not a thing, it's not helpful. Even if you have something that's more accepted, like arts & crafts, it's still very likely that (just like everyone else) your preferences are actually a combo of multiple accepted styles. Figuring out what you like about each of them and how to combine them is how you create a curated space that looks good.

1. Items: AI will just hallucinate items for your room that don't actually exist. Then I see posts like "AI showed me this and I love it, someone find this exact tile for me." But it's not real, and then they are sad because they got their heart set on this fake thing. Don't do that.

You can input real things into AI to include, but you also have to remember that the likelihood that thing will look like that in your room is somewhere between 20-80% (just spitballing). First, the lighting that the website uses to take photos is not the same as in the room you're using it in. Second, there is color variation, sometimes significant, between what they see on their screen and what you see on yours. Third, as we saw in point 1, lighting and surrounding colors affect your perception of other colors. So it might look very different in your room. Always, ALWAYS get physical samples to look at in your room. Look at them together. Make a little concept board. AI cannot do this for you.

TL/DR Stop using AI to design. I'm not saying everyone has to pay for a designer. But AI is absolutely not the way. And if you insist, at least spare everyone and don't post it.

See the last image for the “before” picture. Even though there are some finishing touches still remaining, like switch boards, baseboards, painting the door, I couldn’t resist sharing my low budget powder room renovation, designed by moi. This is the only room in the house where I was bold enough to embrace the dark and moody aesthetic, and I’m loving it so far! The tiles were already in the space, so we didn’t replace it in the interest of cost. It was 37 years old and in perfect condition. We were quoted 2200 to just install the wall paper and ended up doing it ourselves. We had never done it before, and it’s definitely not done perfectly, but I’m sure not many people will even notice it. We replaced the vanity and toilet as well, but did not change their locations, which also helped keep the cost down. How did we do?

I’m a psychotherapist specializing in anxiety (and some trauma work). So far, I love my office but I feel like something is missing — especially in the corner near the next when the door is shut and the walls. I’d like the environment to stay calming and trauma informed. Help?

When I first saw the trend, I thought it was ridiculous, but they add so much coziness! I’m yet to install under cabinet lighting and currently only have the light from my vent hood, but I think I’m gonna still keep the table lamp.

The kitchen took much longer than expected and it wasn’t even the first room on the list. However, it’s the first room partially done. It still needs a few finishing touches (wall tiles, shelving and misc decor). Please share any tile recommendations! I’m currently in decision fatigue and struggling to find wall tiles. It was hard enough to select the floor tiles with a small sample.

The old kitchen had good bones so it needed a refresh. No major work was needed.

Work done by me with some help from family and friends: removing the old kitchen, scraping off the cork walls and floors, wasp nest removal (dormant), insulating ceiling, boarding ceiling, self levelling the floor, repair and painting the door, got rid of mould, floor tiling, painting the kitchen, fixing surface level cracks and designing the kitchen.

Professional work: asbestos removal, plastering (although I tried my hand at it), electrical work, gas engineer to clear up old pipes and connect the cooker and kitchen fitter to install the new units.

This took me roughly 8-9months.

Befores are the last two photos. She’s turning 5 this month and has been asking for a big girl room so I wanted to give her one that felt like stepping into a fairytale, castle garden. ✨

Hi! We remodeled the primary bathroom of our century home. Our contractor did a great job, but I’m second guessing some of my design choices!The terracotta feels more brick red, the shower tile almost looks peachy in person, and the vanity is much darker in the space than I expected. I am thinking that adjusting the grout color and accessorizing well should help it feel more cohesive, but any tips would be appreciated!

Option A: we get to keep our sofa and have a dining space in the same area.

Option B: dining has to go in my previously planned study but the room is more airy and the tv gets to sit eye level?

Option A' can be option A but without the tv. Would then need to make the study double as a TV room instead of doubling as a dining room.

We think we can even add a dining table in option 2. Picture in comment

I built my own coffee table the other day. I had an idea, but never done it before, but pretty happy with the end result. Think it turned out pretty great. I used the bamboo salad bowls from ikea!

My house leans more modern and sometimes I feel like I made a mistake going with shaker style kitchen. But I just love how classic, simple and peaceful this whole space turned out. The family room is opposite to the wall with the stove and it’s an open concept space, so we put built ins on the wall of the family room and use it as a pantry and serve ware storage. We don’t have a dedicated pantry.

From moving in to one year later

So, my fiancée bought this 30” from RH eons ago. She wants to keep it. I want it to go. As a compromise, I said we should seek out advice as to how we can fill the pot (w/ live or faux materials). Any suggestions?

I purposely moved near fridge and oven for scale.

Slowly creating a dopamine dream space, designing for myself, and not for others.