How do you know when a room is finished? I asked 7 designers how they tell when they are 'done'

White living room with a fireplace in the corner and plates hanging above with a large jute rug, wooden coffee table and two white fur-covered chairs.

It can be tempting to keep adding to a room. To keep bringing home more pieces you found at a flea market and just had to have, to keep layering your couch with extra pillows, to keep switching out the prints. But actually, the beauty of interior design comes from knowing when a room is done, when to say enough is enough, and when to relax into a space, safe in the knowledge that it's finally complete.

But because that point in a decorating journey is hard to define, I asked seven of my favorite design experts for their interior design tips on when and how they knew it was time to step away. And surprisingly, all of them had very quantifiable moments they looked for – a time when a room was finally done.