Decorating Your Home Without Spending Much Money
The best part of moving is that we get the chance to decorate fresh. Decorating a new space can be fun and exciting. Fresh decorating schemes can also cost a lot of money and feel like too much of an undertaking. Thankfully there are plenty of options available for people who want to create a homey feeling in their dwelling that do not involve spending thousands (or sometimes even hundreds of dollars). It is easy to decorate your new house inexpensively. What are some affordable ways that you can decorate your home? Here are some ideas:
You don't have to decorate exclusively from super expensive galleries and art shows. Unless you want to make your own, don't bother trying to hunt down original pieces of art right now. Prints are a great way to have fantastic art for less money. Original art is more expensive than prints. Art prints are cheaper and easier to deal with than original artworks. Most prints are created in easy to frame sizes so you won't even need to have the work professionally framed (another budget saver)! You can save money on framing by buying a frame that is on sale and framing the print yourself. Going to the frame shop is something you can do in your own time-you don't have to worry about working around a professional framer's schedule and, if you buy the frame on sale, you can save quite a lot of money! Choose new colors. Let your decorative pieces dictate the color scheme by repainting your walls in neutral colors. Decorating is easier when most of your walls are painted in neutral tones because the smaller items won't be as likely to clash-so you have more to choose from! Choosing a single wall for a bold shade is also a good idea (if the rest of your walls are in neutral tones). These are called accent walls and they are very popular right now. Accent walls are cheap and easy to make. Accent walls are great because if you change your mind about the color it can easily be changed.
Stock photo websites and websites like Flickr are great for finding photos that you can print and use for decoration. Most of the artists who load their work into sites like Flickr do so with the hopes that it will be used by people like you who need affordable art so you can save the photos and and then print the ones you like the best. Filling your home with wonderful photography doesn't have to be difficult if you know where to look for it. This is also an option for the photos you take yourself. Finding affordable software that you can use to edit and enhance your photos is easy. You can have a lot of fun and save yourself lots of money by editing your own photos. It is easy to get bogged down by the idea that decorating is expensive but the truth is that it does not have to be expensive at all. It is easy to get decorating inspiration by visiting the homes of others. Ask yourself "how can I implement this in my home for half as much as she paid?" when you see something you like. You'll soon find that home decorating does not have to cost a lot of money. Sometimes it can even be completely free!