5 DECORATING RULES You Should ALWAYS BREAK

hi welcome to the house of valentina i'm valentina and today we are talking about decorating rules you should always break in the past we've talked about rules that you should be following but today i wanted to talk about decorating rules that you should be breaking because after all unlike laws which involve orange jumpsuits which i don't look good in so we can't go there we obey the laws we break the rules people okay we don't have to obey any of the decorating rules it's your own home and i find myself breaking them all the time because who cares in the first place i mean honestly who made these rules and why am i supposed to be following them if you are excited about this video make sure you give the video a thumbs up hit subscribe if you haven't already and let's jump in [Music] this has been one of my most requested videos from you guys and i thought it'd be really fun to talk about rules that you should be breaking and so i pulled you guys on our inspired by v group on facebook and on instagram and asked you what kind of decorating rules do you even know about got a list of ones that i think you should be breaking and i don't know if i'm gonna be able to get to all of these today so i'm gonna see how many i can get done and then we might have to do a part two because apparently there's a lot of rules and i love breaking them before we jump in let's have a minute from today's sponsor i want to take just a moment and thank today's video sponsor which is hellofresh hellofresh is america's number one meal kit i was so excited when they asked if we'd like to try out their meal kits if you haven't heard about hellofresh before hello fresh offers mouth-watering seasonal recipes that are fresh they're pre-measured ingredients and best of all they are delivered right to your door so you don't even have to leave home and you can customize it if you have special dietary needs like i do i needed to make sure that i was able to make my meals without milk in them there's 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it's decorating in a box so i think this is where the misconception has come from that we think that our furniture is supposed to match now i think a lot of people have gone the opposite direction where none of the furniture is supposed to match the truth of the matter is is that you can do whatever you want oh number two is a really good one because you guys ask me this question all the time all the time should your hardware match so i think what the misconception is that everybody said that you're that everything should match and then it's like trickling in that oh wait we're supposed to mix our metals so there's a lot of confusion around this and some of you hate mixing your medals like you just don't like it so you feel compelled to obey the rule but now you've heard you're supposed to break it so which one is it again you're gonna see that i don't really care about these rules i don't think that they have to match and i don't think that they have to be different either you get to decide what you like the best you can definitely absolutely mix your medals and a lot of times i do because i just think that it's nice to have a little bit of variety i might find a piece where the metals aren't the exact same color the magic in mixing your metals though is having the same undertones so that when you put them in the same space they feel like they came from the same family it's like having sisters they look like they came from the same parents there's some sort of resemblance to them but they're not identical twins and so i think there's some sort of magic that lies in there because trying to make everything match exactly the same that can be really difficult if you're doing a bedroom and you're trying to match your metals from your bedside table to your lamps to your dresser to your light like trying to make those things the exact same literally i i've had clients that are driving themselves nuts trying to make sure that that stuff is a perfect match that's when i'm like oh it doesn't have to be like that kind of matchy the main thing like i said before is making sure that those undertones feel like they belong together and that's up to you bring those together and have a look at them because it's you that's going to be living in the space it's yours and stand back take a really good look at them and decide does it feel like they go well does it feel like they belong together and if it does to you why would it matter to anybody else this is your space so go with what feels good go with what feels right to you and you'll always end up with a space that you love oh my goodness you guys this one just cracks me up never paint a small room dark oh my gosh okay so i'm standing in a room that has nice big windows you guys are literally on like there's humongous windows behind you which is why my skin looks you know so uh fabulous even though i'm in my 40s it's because i put myself near a window and it brings all this light in and it makes this color look amazing in this room so can i take this color and put it say in my powder room or in my laundry room oh why yes as a matter of fact i've done those things i love putting dark colors in small rooms i love putting dark colors in small rooms without windows because i think that it's really cozy and warm and inviting i think there's a lot of you that kind of know that it's okay to paint a small room dark so some of the questions though that i get from that the additional questions are what should i paint the trim what should i paint the ceiling what should i paint the door okay so those are all really good questions and they're really important so when you paint a small room dark you need to think through your lighting because if it is not lit it will feel like a cave and you may actually have trouble seeing inside the room my husband totally teased me when i painted my bathroom i wanted to paint the door dark in fact i don't remember if i did hang on i gotta go look give me one second okay the door is white and the reason why i left it white was because my husband said he would have a hard time finding his way back out of the bathroom we're talking about the tiniest powder room ever he did all the rest of the trim in that bathroom dark and the reason i did that was because i it was actually it was actually to tease my husband because i would have totally painted that door dark on the back so that the room was seamless when you were in it but you know i didn't want him to get lost in the bathroom so i left the door white so what's the answer what is the answer are you supposed to paint it dark what are you supposed to do with the door the trim you can do whatever you like you can do whichever mix you like you can paint the ceiling i painted mine and i love it i painted all the trim dark i i just i like that feeling that it's it envelops you you feel really cozy and it's kind of sensual in there and it's just beautiful i love it but i left the door white and that is completely fine i could have also painted it dark and i would have been perfectly happy with that but again you know wouldn't want jack to get lost in the bathroom i mean wouldn't that be tragic ah this is another really good one i think these are all really good okay so the next one is that the ceiling has to be white i i feel like people just this is the one that most people are like you painted your ceiling most people don't even realize that i have almost no white ceilings in my entire house they're almost all painted so in this room it has a pitch ceiling and i painted the entire room out in this dark color because there wasn't a natural break where the ceiling was going to start and it makes the room look twice as big by painting that pitched ceiling now it just looks like the wall is just huge and the whole room is really big so that's one way of going about it especially if you have a space that has weird angled walls or weird angled ceilings you can paint that whole thing out so then in other spaces you can totally paint the ceiling i painted the ceiling in my family room and kitchen in that big open area that ceiling is actually a light gray i had originally painted the house when we first moved in fifty shades of grey of course now it's the shades of black instead don't even know what that means about me but there you go but either way i left the gray ceiling when i painted the room white because it's a fifth wall and i thought a little bit of gray on the top just adds a little bit of warmth something interesting going on and i just i just liked it um same thing for the family room i left the cream-colored original beige ceiling so when the painters were there and they were painting out this humongous room in white they wanted to know if they should paint the ceiling and i was like you know what i just think it looks nice i think it looks nice and everyone's waiting for me to paint it black apparently but i think my painters would want to kill me they actually fire me as a client if they had to paint the ceiling and that were in black so i haven't gone there yet maybe one day when i'm ready to call in a favor from them but i think that painting a ceiling black is amazing it's one of my favorite things to do and i'm thinking about doing it maybe in my bathroom because i just want i just want to try it and see how it looks however in the rest of the rooms of the house the ceilings are white so do your ceilings have to be white do your ceilings have to be colored you can do whatever you want do not think about the rules think about the overall design the aesthetic of the entire space just painting the ceiling a different color add something interesting to the room is painting it white make it just feel bigger there's a lot of different tricks if you've got big ceilings why not do something interesting on the top of that and do something really fun and you don't even have to paint it a solid color in my laundry room i painted stripes so have some fun oh and in the powder room it's sponge so yeah i'm a crazy woman i am rebel people i'm a rebel breaking all these rules and breaking all of them over and over in my house i can't seem to decide yeah crazy crazy woman so yeah have fun with it design is supposed to be fun that's the whole point of decorating your house is to have fun so just think through what you feel would be fun get on pinterest look at inspiration and go from there oh don't use personal items oh so sometimes you guys ask me why i don't have pictures of my family everywhere and i gotta be honest with you part of it is because when we lived overseas printing out pictures was very expensive and we just didn't do it so much and most people in the countries that we lived in didn't put big pictures of their families out the way that so many americans do and so i just fell out of the habit i just really did i fell out of the habit everything went really digital we weren't printing things out as much i do have pictures in photo frames and a lot of that's in my dressing area in my closet an area that needs a lot of help which hopefully at some point will actually come to this channel maybe one day when i get my act together and actually finish my closet space but that's where i tend to put personal items like that like i love to have a dressing table with personal pictures however there's a lot of other personal things that i think it is a doggone shame that more people don't put their personal things into their homes i don't understand why you would want to design everything to look like it came from a catalog i don't understand that kind of design where it's over designed it feels overly contrived to me and it lacks hominess that's just my personal opinion if you like something that doesn't have all those personal touches then please don't feel the need to include them i mean that's kind of the point i hope more than anything you'll take away from this entire video is that you are the master of your own fate and you are the one building your home and creating it so you get to do whatever you want who cares about the rules take them leave them whatever you want if they they're not important what's important is what you want from your home what's going to make you feel most at home for some people it just wouldn't be a home without their personal photos their personal collectibles their so i would never design a space that doesn't include those things if that is what makes someone feel at home and everybody's different so think through for you if those collectible items those treasures that you have stashed in the basement because they don't go with your decor maybe it's time to pull some of those out i mean why leave them those kinds of things are the things that i hope that my clients will actually have because that's where all that personality and soul comes from so i think you should use your personal items if you love them and they have good memories attached to them and they make you feel happy when you see them i i think you should 100 percent have those in your space but ultimately creating your home to be what you love is the most important thing so if you have to break a rule break the rule you may discover this space that you just absolutely love and sometimes there's rules that you maybe will help things feel cohesive and at times those rules can be good to kind of govern your ideas and help you create a cohesive space but yeah you guys let me know down in the comments if you agree or disagree and which of these rules you break or don't break let me know i'm just so interested to hear from you guys and hear what you have to say it's gonna be a really fun conversation down in the comments section so be sure to leave one of those so well thank you so much for stopping by for another visit i have misplaced my coffee and i'm desperately in need of it so i'm gonna go find my coffee and um yeah get back to work oh don't forget hit subscribe 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Length: 19min 9sec (1149 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 19 2021