You Need to Avoid These Interior Design Mistakes at All Costs

Always Measure Before You Buy

This falls under the same umbrella of "creating a design scheme before you search for furniture." If you just buy things for your space that you don't know will work or not, then you might be baiting yourself into making a massive mistake. If you can't fit a couch through your door, you can't own that couch anymore...

The More You Know

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.