If your living area is feeling dull, drab, or outdated, it may be time to give it the long-needed makeover it deserves. Being one of the largest spaces in your home, it’s important to ensure that your living area is both practical and visually appealing. There are many things you can do to completely transform the look and feel of your living area. By applying just a few of these simple ideas, you can make your living area the ideal place for relaxing and entertaining friends. Yes, you can achieve a high-end look without blowing your budget! Give your space fresh appeal with these ideas to make it look more expensive.
Here are different interior design ideas you style your house in a cheap and affordable way!
#1. Upgrade Your Walls
Are your walls colored using neutral colors? While some do this for it to become a safe choice, eventually, the colors will take the life and vividness away from the house. When this happens, you can do something that will liven up the place. If you have spare plates that are never used, you can use them to design your walls! By arranging them in a design that you love, you’ll not only cancel out the dullness of your walls but you’ll also love looking at it! Here’s a tip: use a larger plate as the center part of the arrangement to add style to the design!
#2. Salt and Pepper Vases
When you’re having trouble on where to put your newly bought flowers, worry no more! This tip will help you with that predicament. By using your spare salt and pepper shakers as vases, you’ll have something where you can put the flowers in! Also, this’ll give your plants a unique vase that’ll add style and a little bit of elegance anywhere you put the vase.
#3. Dressing Up A Dresser
If you’re a parent, and you’re mindful of your child’s room; you can do this simple trick. Whenever you’re celebrating the holidays or having a birthday party, don’t throw out the ribbons used for the gifts and other knick-knacks. Collect them, then tie the ribbons around the handles of your child’s dresser. This will really liven up the room and your child will probably love it just because it’s something they’ve never seen before.
You can also do this for your dressers as well! If you want to let your inner child come out and design your room, this is a surefire way to keep you preoccupied and it’ll also up the design game of your old and boring dresser!
#4. From Table to Unique Display
Do you want to change the coffee table in your living room? Have you used it for a good time, and now, you want to change the look of your living room? Well, before throwing away your old coffee table, you can use it as a unique display for your house! By pushing it against a table and leaving it there, you can add something in your house that exudes finesse. When you put books on top of the table you’ll be saving space, and at the same time, you’ll be an artsy twist inside your house.
#5. Quilt Headboard
Quilts can be modern works of art, precious family heirlooms or attractive covers purchased at a discount store -- and they can be no-fuss headboards that make the bedroom feel more welcoming. Using a quilt for a headboard is not only stylish, it brings a thing of beauty out from the linen closet and puts it on display where it can be appreciated. Quilts that are not of heirloom quality can be hemmed like a curtain before displaying, but handmade quilts should be fitted with a sleeve for hanging. Do you have a bed that’s just too plain for your tastes? You can solve that if you have a quilt just lying around your house! Hang the quilt over your headboard, and voila! You’ll be giving your plain, old, and boring bed some character. It’ll also keep you warm on those extremely cold days!
A old damaged quilt that can't be repaired and has no other value can be used to make an upholstered headboard. Staple a layer of quilt batting around a piece of plywood and then cover it with the undamaged section of the quilt.
If the quilt is too large to display in full fold it in half, and drape it over the curtain rod instead of hanging it.
Use wall anchors to secure the curtain rod brackets if you're unable to screw directly into a wall stud. The weight of a quilt may pull unsecured brackets from the wall.
There’s no limit when you’re designing your house using stuff that are just lying around. The only thing you’ll have trouble with is with your imagination. By getting a clear image on what you want to do to the unused stuff around your house, you’re going to be designing your house in the most appropriate way you deem fit!
It’s very easy for rooms to become dull and outdated over time. When that happens, it’s a good idea to find ways in which to update and revitalize them. Thankfully, there are many ways in which to do this; by simply trying some of these five tips, you’ll be able to give your room a brand-new look.
