by Brian Spilner
You are dying to change the look of a room or many rooms in your home. However you know that it will cost a lot of money to accomplish the look you are hoping for. Or maybe you just think it will cost a lot of money. There are many ways in which you can change the look of a room without doing much work or without spending a bunch of money. You don’t need to go out and buy all new furniture or a new bed to get a new theme into a room. Following are some great tips that will help you accomplish cheaper decorating.
Modern decor is all about a minimal look. A room that you want to place the modern look in doesn’t need to have tons of things in it. You need plain things that can look good, but not have too many accessories. Something that is very geometric in style. Accomplish this in the bedroom by making a new headboard. You can use Styrofoam and cut out shapes like triangles and stars, than clue them to the headboard. Don’t forget to paint them before you place them up though. You can also add a nice fabric to the headboard that is modern looking.
There are other ways that you can use things like sheets or blankets that you never use. Buy some dye and make sure it’s a color that will go in the room you are redecorating. Now dye these pieces of linen that you are using. You can now sew them into slip covers for furniture, curtains, or even throw pillows. You have saved a tremendous amount of money on these items but still changed the look of a room.
Area rugs or throw pillows added into a room can make the room look totally different. Again you can make the pillows yourself. Rugs you can find that won’t cost a lot of money either. Just make sure what you buy goes with the room design
Get those old area rugs together, and if they still match the color that is in your new room, you can change the look of them quickly and easily. Get a cool looking stamp, something that is geometric in design if you’re still sticking with the modern look. Put some paint on the stamp and then put it on the area rug. Now you have created a new area rug that will fit in great with the new look of your room. And again you haven’t spent a lot of money.
But let’s say that the area rugs you have don’t go with the colors you are changing the room too? Well than you need to go and buy a cheap area rug that is a color that will fit into the room. All you need to do is use the stamp on this new rug and change the look of it so it will fit in nicely. Or if you want you can even leave it plain if it fits in the room nicely already.
So you see you can redecorate and not spend a lot of money. These are only a few ideas, try them and see how much you can change the look of your home dcor.