Author: Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

It is good to think of revamping your home décor. But this doesn’t require you to invest a lot of money every day. You need to adapt the ways of spending reasonable amount, and getting the best results.

 

Give your home decor a spruce-up with these budget-friendly decorating tips.

Decorate the Rooms with Contrast Colors

To add real brightness and beauty, it is good to decorate the rooms with contrast colors. You can combine light shades with the dark ones for living area, and keep on repeating them throughout the house. For example, keep the row of yellow and white pillows on a sofa, and have the walls painted with green-red. For the children’s room, it is good to go with all-bright furnishing.

Updates Lampshades

Whenever possible for you, invest your money in lampshades. Keeping on update them can give more contemporary look to your indoor environment. This is a better option than a costly decoration item.

Painting Walls with Different Colors

It is an ideal and modernized option to paint the walls with different colors. An advantage of this is that you will not need to re-paint each and every room separately. For example, if one of your room’s walls are painted with sea-green color, then re-paint any of two walls with red and leave the remaining two as such. This will create a contrasting look, making your room well decorated.

Update Your Kitchen

When choosing the so many things for the bedrooms and living area, how can we forget to renovate the kitchen! This part of the house is busiest and where you will spend most of your day’s time. It is not mandatory to bring home all new utensils, microwave, refrigerator, and other kitchen essentials. What you have to pay attention to is that it looks neat and clean, giving an impression of being new and well-furnished. For this, organize the things in kitchen appropriately.

Pay Attention to Study Room and Storeroom

Study room and storeroom are two of the most ignored parts of our homes. Let us start with the study room: here you have to keep the bookshelves look new by painting them a little with new and lighter shades. Also the lighting of this area has to be proper because here you and your children will often sit and enjoy reading books, journals, etc. Now comes the turn of storeroom: it is okay to spread the things here and there. At the same time, you need to see that there are no bugs or the walls of storeroom don’t look odd. If it is so, renovate this area to make it look superb.

Update Your Window Dressings

Update your window dressings. Bring home reams of readymade draperies, or make your own from sheets or lengths of designer outlet fabric. Hang the curtains using a fancy-looking rod. The curtains of each room have to give positive and amazing impression.

Don’t bulk your rooms with so many accessories. Keep the things in minimal quantity, and enjoy the adorable look of the house. The above tips are easy to remember, and trust me, if you really follow them, you will not have to worry about heavy home decoration costs.

How to paint wood floors nicely? Sometimes it becomes difficult for us to find the answer of this question. Painting wood floors can breathe new life into a space. Some people will think that the idea to paint the hardwood floors is sinful, but it is actually not so. For those who are tired of seeing the same boring brownish colors with brightness, painting the wood floors is quite interesting.

Choose the Right Colors

It is important to choose the right colors. What you select is dependent upon your taste. Obviously some of us would like to have classic colors with little brightness, while others want blue, red, and purple like dark shades. For the wood floor of your playroom, go with pastel or even brighter shade. For porches or sun-rooms, the combination of classic and modern colors look superb like you can have a light blue with a slight turquoise tint to create variety. All of such ideas are purposed to give fresh and seaside look to your indoor environment.

Stenciling Painted Floors

Stenciling painted floors is a wonderful idea to create freshness. Make patterns with stenciling, stripes or any design you want. This is the beauty of the house and will make you more and more creative. These days, lots of condos come with parquet floors. For many individuals it is boring, but I personally like it a lot. The specialty of it is that once you stencil the floor, you need not to create any further patterns and need not to make it look too shiny with excessive polishing.

Keep the Wood Floors Dust-Free

To get wonderful results, it is mandatory to keep the wood floors dust-free. For the housewives, this may be a tough task because their children will be obviously very busy spreading dirt everywhere. Here you have to show some patience to get desired look of the wood floor. Once it is kept clean and dust-free, then you need not to spend extra money in its renovating whenever you decide to go for wood floor painting.

The Secret to Painting Floors

The secret to a great floor-painting job, like any paint job, lies in careful preparation. As we have already told that regular cleaning can keep your floor safe and can maintain its beauty to much extent. Remove the lingering grease or dirt, followed by sanding it so that much of the urethane or varnish is taken off. End the procedure with good vacuuming, or dusting with the help of tack cloth and mineral spirit. This is all purposed to get rid of the dust and specks that cause most of the damage of the wood floors.

What You Need

A roller can make the work easier, but this is likely to leave an unattractive nubby nap. Thus, it is better to go for four-inch-wide natural-bristle brushes which are meant to paint the floors to “set-up” to a gleaming, super-smooth finish. You should not coat heavily. Apply thing and even coats of colors for wonderful results. We recommend to have three coats in a particular area. Allow the floors to get dried under the air. During this time, minimize your walking like activities inside the room.

You can walk on your floors once they are dried. The job takes around 72 hours, but avoid heavy traffic or dragging furniture on the newly painted floors for the few months.

Don’t get confused with the word “shabby” when you adapt the principles of shabby chic style into the rooms. The look may give an impression of something unstructured with lack of formal rules, but it is a timeless decoration idea that gives effortless elegance to your homes. So many handicrafts, salvaged furniture items, and vintage textiles are present in the markets. It is better to visit a retail shop to avail discounted offers, and start searching for the products that can give shabby chic style to your indoor environment. Remember these best ways to get shabby chic style of rooms.

Beanbag Chairs – Comfortable Seating You can Rely

Trust me, the beanbag chairs are part of that laid-back, shabby chic vibe. Such chairs are not only a comfortable way to enjoy time, but also feature updated sumptuous, white, shaggy fabrics, the comfortable foaming area, and great sizes with styles. These will remind you of the elegant rooms of 1980s, but would definitely not look odd.

Well-Worn Tables

When the chairs have been purchased, how can we forget about well-worn tables! Straight lines and man-made materials fail to give supreme look to your dining room. Bring home well-worn table along with chairs and place it somewhere in the dining area. It is good to place it on a faded rug and if you have mismatched chairs, unify them with simple slipcovers.

Create Airy Ambiance in the Bedrooms

White, sumptuous bedding will add light, brightness, and restful environment to your bedroom décor. It is perfect if you look for white-on-white patterns bedding. The curtains of the rooms need to match the quality and authenticity of the bedding. Display a couple of cushions in light as these will add dash of colors to your sleeping area. Make the children’s room look brightly lightened and graceful with a lot of colors. If you personally don’t like so many colors to add in the bedroom, it is alright; but in case of the children’s room, there should be no compromise.

Make the Rooms Look Bright with Fancy Lights

The use of fancy lights ensures to give modern and sophisticated look to your home. Bring home table lamps, hanging lights, and other varieties, depending on the elegance and décor requirements of each room. For example, if you are to bring the lights for study room, it is obvious that these have to be hanging lights with more power as this is the part of the house where you will sit and enjoy reading. In the same way, the lights of the bedroom have to be little dim, but not too boring. Fancy side-table lamps go well for the bedrooms. Hang one over a dining table or in the corner of the living room for extra brightness and light.

From the fabrics of bedding and curtains to the utensils used in kitchen, everything should give an impression of shabby chic makeover. But this doesn’t mean you should bulk your home with so many items. Just spend the money wisely in buying what looks perfect inside. At the same time, decorate your garden area and backyard with pleasant paints, and beautiful plants!