As I sat down to brainstorm for this blog, my first thought was to feature some recent trend in design. Maybe the comeback of the 80’s color scheme or the use of oversized type in web design. But then I thought… isn’t every design blog doing that? Honestly, if you want to know about the latest trends, you don’t have to go far. In fact, you probably can’t escape them because they’re so trendy. So why not write about the things that are timeless in design, the strategies that always work? I think all of us…

Buy the Room is a small design and décor firm specializing in budget-based decorating projects provided by not your typical “by the hour” designer. Instead, owner Paige Stephens works on projects with rates based “by the room”. Anyone who knows Paige wouldn’t use words like “downtempo” or “timid” to describe her. Her interior design business, Buy the Room, is as fast-paced and dramatic as the woman herself, so when I had the opportunity to design a website for it, I wanted it to accurately reflect all that personality…

Here in the design department of Pyxl, we’re constantly searching the design world for creative inspiration. But the more we browse, the more we run across the same bad design trends, and frankly, it’s getting under our skin. In an effort to put an end to these horrible design habits–and for our own personal relief–we want to warn you not to go there…