subject: Decorating Ideas For The Budget Impaired [print this page] If you would love to redecorate, but fear your budget just can not handle the expense, just think of these two words: inspiration and perspiration. You can bring your theme to life on a small budget if you are willing to do a little work. Create a modern, art deco feel for a room by alternating dark and bright colors that will contrast to give your room edginess. Many styles of furniture will work with a room like this as will many accessories. However to reduce expenses, recycle pieces you already have before purchasing anything new.
When attempting a modern look, remember that less is more. Furnishings for this room should be plain. Use an inexpensive Hollywood bed frame for bed support. Do not use a traditional headboard with this. Instead, let your theme inspire its own headboard. Create your own theme based headboard by using Styrofoam. Cut the Styrofoam into geometrical shapes like squares, triangles, and rectangles. Paint these in colors from your color scheme. Paint a piece of plywood white and mount to the wall. Then attach the shapes to the plywood. Layering the shapes and colors will give your headboard a fantastic designer look.
There are other ways that you can use things like sheets or blankets that you never use. Buy some dye and make sure it's a color that will go in the room you are redecorating. Now dye these pieces of linen that you are using. You can now sew them into slip covers for furniture, curtains, or even throw pillows. You have saved a tremendous amount of money on these items but still changed the look of a room.
Area rugs or throw pillows added into a room can make the room look totally different. Again you can make the pillows yourself. Rugs you can find that won't cost a lot of money either. Just make sure what you buy goes with the room design
Get those old area rugs together, and if they still match the color that is in your new room, you can change the look of them quickly and easily. Get a cool looking stamp, something that is geometric in design if you're still sticking with the modern look. Put some paint on the stamp and then put it on the area rug. Now you have created a new area rug that will fit in great with the new look of your room. And again you haven't spent a lot of money.
But let's say that the area rugs you have don't go with the colors you are changing the room too? Well than you need to go and buy a cheap area rug that is a color that will fit into the room. All you need to do is use the stamp on this new rug and change the look of it so it will fit in nicely. Or if you want you can even leave it plain if it fits in the room nicely already.
These easy projects will give you a fabulous new look for under $50. At that price you really can afford to indulge yourself.
