Revamping your home decor needn’t always be a major project and you don’t always have to spend a king’s ransom to do it. Here are 7 ways to give your rooms a fresh look in record time, without breaking a sweat – or your budget. Advertisement 1 Update lampshades with new ones in more contemporary shapes or simply fresh white shades. 2 Paint is the classic makeover potion. Instead of repainting a whole room, just paint one wall in a focal colour or paint a contrasting rectangle over a sofa to use as a “gallery” space. You can also paint the insides of bookshelves in an unexpected colour or paint your ceiling a lighter version of the wall colour. Update your kitchen with paint or any other space in your home. 3 Update your window dressings. IKEA and other home stores have reams of readymade draperies you can hem to the right size (or leave to puddle on the floor), or you can make your own from sheets or lengths of designer outlet fabric. Hang from an attractive new curtain rod, also available in stock sizes. 4 Pull a room together by choosing two contrast colours – black and white, say, or white and one bright colour – and use them as a repeating theme throughout, such as a row of yellow and white pillows on a sofa, or robin’s egg blue walls and all-white furnishings. 5 A simple but effective tip: Edit your accessories. Too much of a good thing is too much. Try taking all your home decor accessories and putting them in a box, then putting them back one by one where they’ll have the most impact. 6 Take down all your paintings and other art and move them around to different walls or different rooms. It’ll be like seeing them for the first time. 7 A classic display scheme ever since Victorian times: Create a gallery wall of family photos and other small pictures in matching (or contrasting) frames, arranged in a collage on a large wall such as a stairwell or hallway. (For best results, first create a plan by arranging them on the floor till you find the right composition and “balance.”) The art of arrangement is always stylish. https://facebook/media/set/?set=a.594041843976046.1073741874.107380412642194&type=3 Ezay buy
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:15:27 +0000
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