3 Great Low Cost Redecorating Ideas

Redecorating does not have to be an expensive endeavor. With a little imagination and a little money, you can upgrade the look of your home with style and taste. It is easy to give the rooms in your home a major boost using either re-purposed items or what you already own. These low-cost redecorating ideas will make your home a showplace in no time.

Changing your home’s look with low cost decorating ideas

Here’s how to make a difference in the look and feel of your home with money-saving tips and tricks and decorating ideas:

1. Lighting

Brightness makes a big difference in the ambiance of any room. When you use higher wattage bulbs in your fixtures or add lighting, it makes a room look much larger. Use full spectrum lighting in the winter time especially as it offsets and chases away the winter doldrums caused by a lack of sunlight.

2. Plants

This is a tried and true redecorating idea makes a room feel more alive and vibrant. By adding color and shape to a room, they are powerful design tools. They can be used as a major feature of a room, a styling detail, or as an integral part of a room. Plants can be as expressive as wall art in bringing a room together.

• Use them as a room divider by placing a shelf in the middle of the room and filling it with plants to divide the space yet leave an aura of openness.
• Large plants, including small trees, can all height and add a dramatic flair to any room.
• Clusters of plants look great in room corners or in other spaces where nothing else will fit.
• When plants spill out of their containers, whether cascading from a shelf or on the floor, they add a definitive sense of movement to rooms that cannot be achieved with other decorating ideas.
• Another intriguing use for plants is wall-mounted. Clean and minimalistic, a lone wall-mounted plant such as a staghorn fern can add a warm focal point to any room.
• Used as a table centerpiece, potted plants make wonderful adornments for dining room tables or coffee tables.
• Hanging plants are great for filling dead air space with amazing shapes and colors.
• Plants can also be a focal wall with an entire wall covered in greenery. While there are expensive systems for growing a living wall, the same look can be accomplished using clear Plexiglas shelving and plants in clear pots that cascade or grow up a clear Plexiglas trellis.
• You can also put together a collection of plants on attractive storage boxes that look like a mini-garden. You get a double benefit here in that you can use the storage boxes for extra storage and have a beautiful garden in your home at the same time.

3. Architectural elements

These can be easily created with the use of painter’s tape, paint and a brush. Paint horizontal or vertical lines on a wall and it will make the room look larger. You can also use the painter’s tape to outline rectangles or squares to frame furniture, sconces, or pictures. If you use molding, you can give the walls a look of added dimension and depth.

Implementing your redecorating ideas on a budget can be fun, challenging, and can brighten your home immeasurably.