Decorating your new home can be exciting or challenging, depending on your taste, time availability, and budget.
You might feel overwhelmed thinking about where to start or where to end. What should you buy, and what should not? Should you choose wallpapers or tapestry? Do I need minimalist wall art or something large on the accent wall? You have so many questions in your mind!
No matter what, your new home needs new decor and look.
Fortunately, with a little planning, you make easily work through your decorating project. All you need is to spend some time to plan and follow these steps.
Step 1: Prioritize, Evaluate and Plan
Less is more! The saying applies when it comes to decorating your house. First, you can throw away what you no longer want to keep. Take a look at your old treasures, keep the valuable ones, and dispose of the junk.
Now, evaluate everything at your disposal and make sure that every old thing you choose to keep serves a purpose in the new abode.
It will keep you from cluttering your home and stay organized. Now, organize everything you save by putting them at the most appropriate place in your new home.
As you do with business plans, you should write down your project plan on paper.
Step 2: Identify your Style
Identify your personal choices and select a color scheme and decor accents around our house’s theme.
Do you like a formal look or have a taste for casual decor? Would you prefer a farmhouse style or modern industrial decor?
You might struggle with finding your personal home decor style. You can follow these tips to recognize your own decorating style:
• Walk around your home: Take a look at everything around your home. Make a note of what you would love in the empty spaces.
• Consider your hobbies and interests: Are you a traveler? Do you love photography? Maybe, you are a gardener! Depending on your interests, you can bring in the inspired home decor items.
• It’s OK to have several styles: It’s natural to have many interests. So don’t hesitate to embrace different styles and tastes when decorating your home.
Step 3: Start With Art
The art you choose reflects your personality, lifestyle, and tastes. For instance, if you choose landscape oil paintings, you probably like a formal look. If you choose black and white abstract art, you probably want a contemporary design.
Make sure you follow these essential tips when decorating your new home with art:
• Pick a color palette that coincides with your furnishing, to ensure consistency.
• Inject your unique personality by choosing one theme for the entire room or home.
• Hang minimalistic wall art in every room, including your dining room and kitchen.
• Create a memory wall or a gallery wall to showcase your sweet memories.
Take care of the spacing between multiple art pieces if you are grouping them.
Step 4: Add Interest with Patterns
Choose a pattern for tiles, wallpapers, and carpeting. It can be bold, subtle, geometric, or scrolling, depending on your choice.
Use these patterns as a base for other decor elements and carry the pattern into accessories, fabrics, and lamps.
To use an area rug as the starting point, choose colors from the pattern and work those throughout the room.
Step 5: DIY Upgrades
Decorating your new house is not all about buying new or expensive things. Rather you can upgrade some items you already own with new paint, a stylish fabric or new hardware.
For instance, transform your kitchen cabinets with decorative knobs. Add life to grungy walls with a fresh coat of paint. Paint a unique pattern on the arms of an old wooden side table.
These small upgrades will make a big difference to your home decor, in a cost-effective manner.
Wrapping Up
These five lessons will make things easier and exciting when it comes to decorating your home.
