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Picture walking into a room that finally feels finished: everything fits, the colors connect, and nothing is fighting for attention. Most of the time you get there without buying much at all.
It's easy to assume that when a room isn't working, you need to buy something. A new rug. A different coffee table. More pillows. Maybe a whole new sofa. But more often than not, the room doesn't need more stuff. It needs a plan.
A room can be filled with beautiful pieces and still feel off, because the layout isn't working, the scale is wrong, or there's simply too much happening at once. Buying more rarely solves that.
In this post I share the order I design rooms in, starting with what the room actually needs to do, so you can stop shopping and start planning.
