Creative Budget Decorating Ideas For A Utility Room
When it comes to decorating effort and dollars
, the lowly utility room is the last place where most people will spend sweat or fiscal equity. Yet this little room that houses your day-to-day necessities, like tools and coats, and often includes the washer and dryer, does not have to be an ugly duckling. There are so many easy ways to decorate a utility room on the cheap. All you have to do is incorporate what you already have and group it for impact.
Here are five creative suggestions to get you thinking creatively, taking your utility room from ugly to charming.
Start out by thinking about hobbies, interests, pets, collections, anything that you have can provide a quick, easy and cheap theme.
1. Go fish! If you are into fishing, camping, hiking or skiing use your outdoor activity as a theme. Fishing poles look great when hung on a wall; so do skies and snow shoes. Or feature a collection of Coleman lanterns on an open shelf. Buy dollar store frames, or hunt some down at a garage sale, and frame up the covers of your favorite outdoor magazines. You could just make copies of the covers, if you are not yet ready to rip the covers off.
2. Sports nut: Tennis rackets make great wall art. Just pop a nail into the wall and hang the racket by the strings. Baseball bats and gloves, hockey sticks, skate boards and ice skates can be hung on the wall with basic hooks or used as shelf accessories. If you do not have enough from one sport, combine all your sports gear and add framed photos of action shots, teams or a recent sporting event, like a road race or triathlon, where you competed. This theme gives you an excuse to show off your trophies and ribbons, too! Fill in wall space with stenciled text or a monogram related to your sport.
3. Garden Bug: Use your utility room to showcase and store garden gear. A big handled basket can hold your gardening tools and gloves on an old stool or wooden chair so that it is always ready to head out the door with you. Hang your favorite gardening hats on the wall. Display plants, stacked empty terracotta pots, floral buckets, vases and bird houses on wall shelves or on the space above your cabinets for style that is practical and easy to access. In the off season, bird baths, statuary and plants that may be over-wintered can be brought in and added to the mix.
4. Sew, Sew: If sewing is your thing, display glass jars full of buttons, rick- rack and other trims on a shelf. Make cheap and easy wall decor with colorful left over fabric: Simply stretch the fabric onto a plastic embroidery hoop and hang on the wall, what could be easier? Glue buttons or trim on to cabinet doors or accent curtains with button edging.
5. Great Cook: If you love to cook, chances are you have large pots, pressure cookers, crock pots and other big items that are difficult to store in the kitchen. Store them here on professional style metal shelves and tuck in a few utensils, pretty dish towels and cookbooks to make the display attractive. If your kitchen is adjacent to the kitchen, turn your utility room into a butlers pantry with open shelving for canned goods, trays and serving pieces, stemware, tea pots and jars of staples and spices.
Now you get the idea: Turn your stuff into a theme and take your utility room beyond utilitarian.
by: Jasmine Albriton
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