8 Things Professional Designers Never Spend More than $10 On — Shopping

When it comes to design, throwing money at a project never hurts. But I'm far more impressed when people actually don't spend a small fortune on a room. I love hearing when high-end decorators have used IKEA (or the dollar store!) and you'd never know it. Or where they found a piece on the side of a road and rehabbed it. I mean, you can't buy a storied past for a designer piece, am I right?

Lately I've found myself wondering what designers really don't spend money on, even if they or their clients have it by the boatload. And so I bring you a designer-approved laundry list of stuff not to go for broke on, because, well, there's no reason to.

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