Biggest Decorating Bloopers

I picked out [a couch and loveseat], not thinking about how they would fit in with my young kids. The backs are big overstuffed, loose pillows. I have spent that last seven years picking up those darn pillows and putting them back on several times a day." —atozmamma

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"[T]he curtains in the master bedroom—6 panels of silk, each 120 inches long so that they would poof at the bottom, hanging from a wrought iron rod that is the diameter of your pinky. [They] span the length of one wall so I had to join three rods together. [They're t]otally crooked, completely off balance and I have to look at [them] everyday." —applebead

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"We repainted our computer room and I had the hardest time finding just the right color. We painted the whole room twice [and] I still didn't like it." —neverstopping

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"I've been living with a paint [color] that I hate in my bedroom for five years now." —neverstopping

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"The corner couch we ordered for the TV room ([that] needs to be real[ly comfortable]) was a huge mistake. You plop down on it and [it] feels like you sat on a rock." —cl-twig04

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"When our house was built we had the great room painted what I thought was a soft lavender. It looked like a huge Easter egg on all these big walls." —wildflower05

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"I had my DD1's bedroom painted light pink in a former home. I went over to see how the painters were doing and it looked like a bright Pepto Bismol room." —neverstopping

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