5 Inexpensive Ideas To Decorate Your Home
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Saving money is a must in today’s world but this doesn’t mean you have to go without in order to meet that goal. Decorating your home is easy to do when you are on a shoestring budget. It’s not what you spend it’s how you plan it. Get started decorating your home today with a few of these ideas that can turn your home into a chic design.
1. Use slip covers on your furniture to give them an immediate face lift. Slip covers cost a fraction of what you would pay to replace all your furniture. Slip covers take a few minutes to place them and they can easily be placed in the wash to clean and place back on your furniture.
2. Use an area rug for warmth and instant style - Nothing adds to a room like an area rug. Even if you have wall to wall carpeting, an area rug is one way that you can change the entire look of the room. You can even use more than one area rug in a room to give it definition. Area rugs are a lot less expensive than getting new wall to wall carpeting and can be functional as well. They can not only add instant warmth and style, they can protect traffic areas. Area rugs are relatively inexpensive and not a permanent altering change to any room, although they can give it a much needed lift.
3. Painting your furniture is not a bad idea. Most homeowners think that painting furniture can destroy the look of it but that is not so. You can use a white enamel paint or latex paint to brighten up a dresser that stands in the corner. You can replace the handles to give it a total inexpensive make over.
4. Cover old furniture with rugs - Use stylish area rugs as upholstery pieces on some old furniture. If you are intimidated about upholstering furniture you will be pleased to know how easy it can be with an area rug. Area rugs are thick enough to cover the furniture without having to fuss with padding and are easily affixed with a staple gun. This can give a room an artistic as well as a chic look.
5. Cover old tables with linens. If you have extra material at home or you want to purchase some you can cover every table in your home; bedside table, coffee table, end table, and kitchen table. You don’t have to know how to sew to make a tablecloth. You can purchase stick on hems to go around the edges of the material and you have instant cloth covers.
Just because you are pinched for money does not mean that you cannot decorate your home. By using materials such as linens, paint and area rugs, you can give your home the cheap chic look.
