{"id":981698,"date":"2026-08-05T05:57:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/981698\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T05:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:57:36","slug":"things-id-never-buy-for-my-home-as-an-interior-designer-of-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/981698\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#8217;d Never Buy for My Home As an Interior Designer of 15+ Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rustic trend, which features wood paneling on interior walls, has some style benefits. However, the designer said, it&#8217;s overdone and dated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s also impractical \u2014 if a piece of shiplap gets damaged, it can be difficult and expensive to fix depending on the extent of the damage,&#8221; she told BI.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to lean into a more <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/popular-trends-interior-designers-dont-like-get-rid-of\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rustic home design<\/a>, Lang recommends limewash paint, which has a streaky effect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Limewash gives you the opportunity to add dimension with different brushstroke patterns that give your walls an old-world, vintage feel,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rustic trend, which features wood paneling on interior walls, has some style benefits. However, the designer said,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":981699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,394078,4381,1033,171,24568,316,394081,365893,28739,394080,394079,6174,17411,17823,67,132,68,1628,7827],"class_list":["post-981698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-brooke-lang","tag-business-insider","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-experience","tag-home","tag-inspo","tag-interior-designer","tag-knowledge","tag-own-home","tag-principal-designer","tag-professional","tag-skill","tag-thing","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-year","tag-years"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117041368023470944","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}