{"id":624,"date":"2014-11-19T03:48:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T16:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2015-06-14T18:05:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T08:05:30","slug":"interior-design-tips-uncreative-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/interior-design-tips-uncreative-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior Design Tips for Uncreative People"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019re probably a lot more creative than you think, but not everyone feels confident in their creativity \u2013 especially when it comes to expressions as public as the interior design in your house. After all, people will be literally living in your design, and will have an opinion on whether it works or not. If you\u2019re not someone who\u2019s used to expressing themselves creatively, that can be intimidating.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a secret, though: You don\u2019t necessarily have to be creative to have a great design in your house. Here are some sure-fire interior design tips that can help even the least creative person attain a beautiful home filled with great design ideas.<\/p>\n

Steal Little, Steal Big<\/h2>\n

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Not sure you know what you\u2019re doing with interior design? Fair enough \u2013 but you know what you like. So, why not find the perfect room \u2013 in a magazine, or online, or, heck, in someone else\u2019s house \u2013 and simply steal it? Take that photograph and shop for the furniture, the textiles, the decorations and flooring \u2013 all of it. You may not find the exact pieces, but that\u2019s okay. The point is that you won\u2019t need to know any of the \u2018rules\u2019 or have to rely on your own ability to pick a colour palette or choose funky furniture, when you can just let someone else do all the hard work for you!<\/p>\n

Buy the Whole Catalogue<\/h2>\n

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Interior design is supposed to be all about your personal taste, but when you hire someone to design a room for you, it\u2019s not your taste, really, so why not skip the middle man and simply take a page out of a furniture catalogue and replicate it? Buying everything on the page \u2013 down to the rugs \u2013 might seem like cheating, but all it means is that you get perfectly matched pieces that appeal to your eye with one swipe of your credit card.<\/p>\n

Keep It Super Simple<\/h2>\n

One of the greatest interior design tips for people who aren\u2019t very confident in their creative faculties is to keep it super simple (KISS). That means strip everything down: Paint the walls, put in only the furniture that is absolutely necessary, and keep the decorations down to a minimum (a single piece of canvas art on the wall, for example).<\/p>\n

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Simplicity is its own style, after all, and the less you try to do in the room the more confident you\u2019ll be with what you do<\/em> choose \u2013 plus you\u2019ll find it a lot easier to swap things out if you find you\u2019ve chosen a few bad items or change your mind about one aspect of the room.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easier to make your home beautiful than you think \u2013 whether you have the confidence to use your own ideas or not! And if you need a little help with decorating the walls, click here and we\u2019d be delighted to help you out with custom canvas prints<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You\u2019re probably a lot more creative than you think, but not everyone feels confident in their creativity \u2013 especially when it comes to expressions as public as the interior design in your house. After all, people will be literally living in your design, and will have an opinion on whether it works or not. If … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interior-design"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}