Update your home with these ten easy, inexpensive ideas.
1. Paint white paper lampshades with starburst or flower stencils in dark or rich colors. It’s fast, fun, and cheap. Lighting is über important in the décor world. Add warm lighting from lamps to your bedside table or den. If you have a comforter with a distinctive pattern, try to mimic it on the lampshade to give more visual flow in your bedroom.
2. Add texture to walls, chairs, and tables with fabrics. Use old quilts, table cloths, doilies, and throws to cover boring surfaces and enliven them with texture and color. For makeshift curtains, hang up sheer fabric in windows with a staple gun or an inexpensive hanging rod. You can turn the dullest room into a charming country home in no time.
3. If you live in a cookie cutter apartment with plain white walls, use wall coverings in the living room to bring art and furniture to life. Wall coverings can add color and a subtle texture that can totally transform your room into a warm, inviting place.
4. If you thought light dimmers were for velvet-covered bachelor pads, think again. Dimmers are low-priced and can enhance the mood of a room without requiring a fancy or expensive lighting installation.
5. Colors can do wonders. If you want to update a room but don’t want to spend a lot of time or money, you can easily update the color palette. Keep all the same furniture pieces, curtains, and odds and ends, but change the mood with an easy splash of paint.
6. This idea may not be for librarians, but an easy way to add art to your home is to take an old botanical or photography book and cut it up. Using an X-ACTO knife, take a dozen or more pictures and put them in matching frames. Hang them in a row or in a block, and voila! You have surprising, new art that will definitely impress your guests.
7. Buy a large but beautiful tray, like this one. Put everything that’s on your coffee table—the books, magazines, coasters and all—on the tray. The tray brings together the various items in a creative and simple way. Your coffee table will appear more organized, and all the stuff that gets piled there will finally seem to have some purpose.
8. Most people arrange their living room or den furniture in one big arc, where the focal point is the TV. Instead, rearrange furniture into two smaller sitting areas. You’ll instantly amp up the coziness and encourage more conversation among guests and family members.
9. If you’re a hoarder, purge each room of three items, whether they are knickknacks or out-of-place armoires. The home will feel more open, cleaner, and best of all, liberated from clutter.
10. If everything else fails, you can always indulge in the purple side of life. Buy a throw, a pillow, or a picture frame in any shade of purple, from lavender to eggplant. Purple accent pieces are a posh way of perking up any room.
Top 10 Designer Makeover Tips.
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