Just keep a place for your keys

I ran a small experiment last week.

For seven days, I let the algorithm decorate my living room.

No taste, no instinct, no “does this feel like me.”

Just one rule: whatever the feed showed me most, I’d copy..

Day one was easy.

The feed wanted a boucle chair, a curved sofa, and a single sculptural vase on an otherwise empty table.

I rearranged things to match.

It looked great.

It looked exactly like everyone else’s!

By day three, something started to feel off.

The empty table meant I had nowhere to put my keys.

The sculptural vase meant I stopped putting flowers in it, because flowers ruined the shape.

I caught myself walking around the room carefully, like a guest.

In my own home.

That’s what broke.

Not the design. The living.

A room built to be photographed has no space for the messy parts of being in it.

No spot for the charger. No room for the book you’re halfway through. No corner where you can just drop your bag and sit down.

The algorithm doesn’t know any of that.

It only knows what stops a thumb.

By day five, I’d quietly put the keys bowl back.

By day seven, the vase had flowers in it, slightly crooked, and the room finally felt like mine again.

Here’s what I took from it.

A feed can tell you what looks good.

It can’t tell you what it’s like to come home tired and need somewhere to put things down.

That part has always been the actual job of design.

Use the trend if you love it.

Just keep a place for your keys!!!!