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Cheap Home Decorating Ideas
By Louisa Price
Decorating your home can be tough if you are on a limited budget. However, with a bit of planning and making small changes in the right places, you can decorate every room of your home beautifully without spending thousands of dollars.
These cheap home decorating ideas make use of items that you already have, along
with a couple of other wallet-
A gallon of fresh paint will give any room an instant facelift. Walls, furniture, tiles, glass, rugs and even floors can be painted to change the mood, create a new accent or simply give anything an instant spring cleaned “pop”. It is usually expensive to have someone do for you what you can do yourself so roll up your sleeves, put on your decorating overalls and tackle a DIY paint project. Also, check out the “Oops” paint from Home Depot. It’s a frugal way to improve your surroundings with other people’s leftover paints at a bargain price.
If painting is too much of a home makeover at the moment, try washing everything from ceiling to floor to remove all dust and debris. The best all purpose cleaner is trisodium phosphate, which can be purchased at any home improvement store. Your home will look better and feel like never before.
Fresh flowers in vases and indoor plants in colorful pots add life to a room. You can pick them from your own garden or get them from any florist, supermarket or garden shop. For less than $5 a bunch, flowers offers huge home decorating mileage. And, you don’t need expensive crystal vases for the flowers. Tulips in milk bottles look just as good!
Framed pictures of family and friends are a quick and easy way to jazz up your home. Pick up a variety of frames at garage sales to showcase memorabilia, photos, paintings and other special family memories. Larger frames can be out on the wall while smaller ones standing on the table can greatly add liveliness to a room. You may also want to have a couple of photos printed in black and white. That way, they will never go out of style!
Mirrors are both stylish and functional in home decor. They are highly effective decorating accessories to open up a small room and brighten up rooms with low light. You can try placing a large mirror where it can reflect natural sunlight into a room to give it a warm daytime glow. However, keep in mind that mirrors reflect light so these home decorating ideas will be less effective in homes that are painted with dark colors.
A speedy way to accent and invigorate your home on the cheap is candles. Richly scented candles in different shapes and colors not only beautify rooms but will also provide a soothing and flattering glow. Consider incorporating scented pillar candles into your home decor as they are incredibly cheap, readily available and help perk you up after a stressful day at work. Try lavender, geranium and rose scented candles.
A few lamp shades, a large area rug, throw rugs, slipcovers, pillow covers, chenille
throws and simple window treatment changes can energize a tired and dull room. Thrift
shops are great for finding cheap fabric. If you can sew, good. Otherwise, tack,
tuck, staple or glue the fabric. Here’s a quick tip for those who cannot sew – find
any fabric square knotted around the cushion. Place the cushion on the square so
that each cushion corner is pointing at a side of the fabric square. Then, you take
diagonal ends of the square and tie square knots across the cushion. If you display
them knot-
There you have it, no sweat budget home decorating ideas to add instant chic to your home without looking cheap. Don’t forget, even the smallest change means a huge difference in home decorating. So, try not to start out too big.
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