
9. Design Mistake: Choosing Form Over Function
What good is a room that looks nice if it doesn’t have a purpose? Everything may look great. However, what are you going to use the area for if there’s nothing functional inside it? People who focus only on how the room looks will mistake creating the perfect cookie-cutter room that they can’t even use. Or worse, they design a space that they don’t even want to touch because it looks too perfect. Who wants a room like that in their home?
That’s why you should focus on the function of the room and design around that. You want a comfortable living room where you can spend a lot of time. Get a couch that’s comfortable that you want to lounge on all day. Do you want to turn that room into a mini-movie theater? Then add some wall-length black-out curtains as well that you can pin back during the day. By taking function into account, you can find designer pieces that will help you meet the role of that room instead of building something you don’t even want to use at the end of the day.