Home Decorating on a Budget

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Home Decorating on a Budget– Decorating your home can easily become an expensive task. While it is important to create a beautiful, comfortable living space, the stress of financial constraints can often put a damper on an otherwise enjoyable expression of personality and style.  Unique, stylish home decoration is not just for those with unlimited funds, however. Approached creatively and with energy, a beautifully decorated home can be achieved at the most modest of budgets.

Home Decorating on a Budget

It can be easy to get discouraged by the prices of home decoration, but this shouldn’t keep you from fashioning your dream living space. Here are four great cost effective tips to help you decorate your home.

Plan ahead

Thorough planning is crucial when decorating your home on a budget. Most of us can’t afford to hire a top notch interior designer, so it’s important to try to think like one. Develop a design plan perfect for you and your space. A great way of achieving this is by keeping a binder of decorating ideas. Peruse home design books and magazines for inspiration, photocopying or taking clippings of images you like. Visit your local hardware store for paint samples to compile a color scheme for your home. While you may not consider yourself an artist, draw out a basic floor plan and sketches of each room with an idea of where you’d like furniture placed. Make lists of what you already have, as well as lists of items you’d like to obtain. Remember, the more you plan, the less unnecessary spending you’ll do.

Shop Second Hand

Buying brand new furniture and home décor is often expensive and unnecessary. Consider second hand shopping as a fun, creative alternative. Thrift shops, flea markets and yard sales can have amazing deals on beautiful items that don’t usually need more than a little touching up. Not only can you find high quality well priced pieces of furniture, art and other houseware, but you also can have great adventures and meet interesting people while hunting for them. Checking out websites like Craigslist and Ebay can be another economical option, especially when looking for a specific item.

Utilize Space and Color

It’s important to remember that when creating a beautiful, comfortable atmosphere, less is often more.  Decorating a home isn’t about filling every inch of empty space with new expensive items, but rather placing each favorite pieces of furniture and décor strategically within each room. As silly as it may sound, one of the best ways to practice home decoration on a budget is to visit your local library and research the art of feng shui. Making use of the natural shape, space, and light of a room will accentuate your style.

Don’t underestimate the power of paint. Wall color can dramatically improve the look and feel of a space at minimal prices. Starting at $12 a gallon, you can energize a room by painting its walls red, orange or yellow. For a softer, more relaxing feel, consider blue and green paints. For the more traditionally minded, painting walls white can create a brighter, cleaner ambiance and make a room feel bigger.

Make it Personal

The aesthetic of your home should be a represent you as an individual. Instead of spending all of your money on a single piece of art, why not cover your walls with items you already have and love? Start collecting picture frames at thrift stores, flea markets and yard sales. They often go for a few cents apiece. At home, dig through boxes and drawers for photographs of friends and family, old postcards and drawings.  Art reflective of you and your life is at your fingertips and displaying it shouldn’t cost more than a few dollars. Plants are also a great way of sprucing up the ambience of a home for little money. Keep your eyes open for interesting flowerpots and bowls while shopping second hand. Filling them with potting soil and your favorite plants is an economical way to add a little green vibrancy to any room.

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