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14 December 2012

Home Decorating On A Budget

By Daniel Lonney


Does your home need a face lift? Considering giving it a new look but don't have enough money to do a renovation? Having a beautiful home interior does not always mean you have to spend a lot of money. Even with just a low budget, it's possible to come up with great decorating tricks that will suit the style that you want for your home.

Find time to look around and search your home for hidden treasures that you believe can be recycled as a new item. For instance, an old wooden door can be repurposed or made into a new table top. Or a room divider that you no longer want to use can be made as a new head board for your existing beds. With maybe a little splash of paint or minor repairs, you can already salvage something and have a new item with little or no expense at all.

Feeling retro? Bring in the old school look into your home by giving old appliances new life. Scour via your basement or storage room for these things and then get the restoration going. Once done, they can easily be the point of interest of any room or be the ideal conversation piece that you can proudly show off to visiting relatives and friends. Perhaps a newly restored or polished antique tuner or telephone can effortlessly do this in today's digital age.

If what you really need is a home renovation or a redo of your home's interiors, start saving up for it as soon as possible. To help you get started, you may organize a garage sale where you can sell some of your things that you no longer want to use. They can be outgrown child-sized furniture, your kids' old clothes and toys, furniture that won't match your new intended motif or style, or even home appliances that you want replaced already. Just make sure to schedule the sale on a weekend when most people don't have work to attend to.

Use children's arts and crafts projects as instant wall decors or table top display items. Or if you yourself are a self-made artist, make use of your very own drawings, paintings, or sculptures. What's good about this is that you are able to infuse personality into your home's interior design without having to spend a single cent. The idea here is to get your creative juices flowing so you can pull this off like a true, professional Interior designer.




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