We are seeing more homeowners choose glass-front wardrobes, especially for master bedrooms. They undoubtedly look elegant, but for those who have one, how practical is it in everyday life? Do you need to be more mindful about how you organise and store items to keep them from looking cluttered?
What was your luxury/ aesthetic splurge? How is it holding up now against daily wear and tear? Looking back, was it a good call or a total waste of money? Drop your best and worst non-essential splurges below!
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They say experience is just the name we give our mistakes. When it comes to interior design, those mistakes usually cost a lot of time and money. These stories are quite common in our industry. So, we are trying to compile a realistic 'What NOT to do' guide for first-time homeowners. Drop your biggest home interior design mistakes. Let’s help some people save their budgets. Spill the tea!
Designs like this can keep a small living room feeling open. It is perfect for single folks or couples, though maybe not ideal if two people need to use the TV and the desk at the exact same time! What do you think of this integration? What is your go-to space-saving design hack?
A home is overdesigned when it feels more like a showroom than a comfortable living space. This usually happens when we try to fit too many design ideas into one floor plan. A feature wall here, a panel there, individually they look great, but together they can overwhelm the room.
To keep your space feeling balanced, focus on intentional restraint:
Leave some walls plain: Every room needs a visual break.
Don't fill every corner: Let your daily habits naturally dictate how empty spaces get used over time.
Design for your current lifestyle: Build storage for the items you actually own right now, rather than future assumptions.
Good design should prioritize daily comfort over high visual impact. If an element looks beautiful but makes your routine less practical, it loses its value. Ultimately, every design choice should solve a real functional need, keeping your home both beautiful and effortless to live in.
We see this advice everywhere- ‘small homes need interior designers because every inch matters.’ Sounds right, but it’s only half true.
Yes, an interior designer helps if your space is genuinely tricky- awkward layout, no storage logic, too many people in too little space. They can reduce daily friction.
But a lot of small homes don’t have a space problem. They have a decision and lifestyle problem. If your layout is standard and your needs are simple, a designer won’t be able to magically fix things like- overbuying storage, mixing too many styles, setting up your home for guests instead of yourself, etc.
With poor decisions, hiring an interior designer will help you will just end up with a nicer-looking version of the same issues.
Also, hiring a designer doesn’t automatically mean a better home. Plenty of spaces look great in photos but are frustrating to live in, especially small ones. So the real question isn’t ‘Is a designer worth it?’, it is ‘What’s the actual problem with your space, and what do you want from it?’
At the end of the day, it’s your house. The core ideas should come from you. Interior designers will just help you realise your dream, but it’s your dream after all.
We hear this a lot, and it’s not completely wrong. A lot of finished apartments do feel similar.
But blaming ‘template-driven design’ misses the real point. Most Indian apartments are built on repeatable floor plans. Same 2BHK/3BHK layouts, same kitchen corners, same room proportions- copied across projects and even cities.
So the ‘box’ is already identical before any designer steps in. They are constantly working inside the same fixed structure, solving the same constraints, over and over again.
That is why similarity shows up. But here’s the part people miss: sameness of structure doesn’t mean sameness of outcome. The difference comes from how you interpret the space. Your home is not a display unit. So pick things that matter/speak to you. Buy a lamp only if you need it, not because everyone has it and it makes your room look pretty. Get a pastel wall only because you love the colour and not because your designer suggested it is trendy. Use the space as you wish.
The floor plan may stay the same, but how you envision it makes the difference.