The lovely and fabulous Tiffany sent over some tips to help those about to move this spring. Make sure to check out her site, She’s So Savvy for more great ideas.
Having the winter blues? Want to decorate your fabulous place but don’t know where to start? Have you looked through about a billion design magazines and then thought- I will never be able to afford that!
Source: homeadore.com via Real Estate – Immobilier on Pinterest
Good news! Design doesn’t need to mean overpriced. Here are a few small and inexpensive pick-me-ups which can be done for next to nothing and will give your place a whole new feel? Consider the options…
Simple tweaks can add up to a big impact. Suddenly, your room has personality!
Editors note: I remember when I first moved out and have to decorate my house. Its one of the most overlooked and under-budgeted parts of moving, and buying a house. While most people are smart and use their low interest credit cards to buy furniture, others get sucked into the buy now, pay later vortex. I was lucky and had friends and family help me out with Ikea furniture, until I had time to slowly replace everything. This was also the time that I discovered my “talent” for abstract painting.
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This is relaxing looking to me. I’m not a big fan of over cluttered layouts I’m interested in somewhere comfortable enough for me to take a nap.
Know what I mean?
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I do I do! I like naps more than anyone else!
Hi,
These are some very good ideas for people on a tight budget. I agree with Jacko about over cluttered areas but none of these seem to suggest that. Our layout is pretty plain so I think some throw pillows and fresh paint would probably be the best approach in our house and budget.
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A fresh coat of paint and some flowers do wonders for a space.
We painted out whole living room/kitchen/hallway when we bought our condo. I was going to have someone paint it but was too cheap and decided to do it myself. It was a lot of hard work but I’m really proud I stuck with it. I don’t think there’s much difference between my work and a professionals so I saved myself about $600 doing it myself.
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I never how expensive house painters were. I have a friend who makes a killing doing them on the side.
Very inviting and elegant layout. I liked your suggestions. One that my wife has done was taking some of our travel pictures and converting them to canvas. They are really fantastic and bring back memories from our best trips.
Thats a great idea!
First line describes me to a “T.” I think #5 is huge – when I was a kid, my mom and I would rearrange my bedroom furniture at least once a year to shake things up a bit!
I used to do that too, until I got really lazy.