9 Easy Ways to Enhance Your Home Decor on a Budget
Finding your space tiresome, unoriginal, and not in line with your personality? Consider enhancing your home with items, décor techniques, and DIY projects that are incredibly fun, affordable, and easy to apply. This list will help you make your home reflect your personality, adding touches that your friends and family will admire for years to come.
1. Repurpose Unusual Items as Decor
Instead of traditional decor items, consider using unexpected objects like old musical instruments, vintage suitcases, old hardback books, or even old car parts as decorative pieces. For instance, you can use an old car tire to create a large indoor garden or as an ottoman, take the covers of old books, frame them, and use them as unique and wholesome wall art. These treasures create a unique feel to the home and are great conversation starters.
2. Create a Gallery Wall with Found Objects
Building on the last tip, you can take conventional ideas of framed art and create a gallery wall using an eclectic and distinct mix of items such as old kitchenware, computer accessories, fabric swatches, sewing accessories, etc. This adds character and allows you to express your personal taste in an affordable way.
3. Incorporate Nature with Uncommon Plants
If you have a green thumb, you know certain houseplants are absolute must-haves. However, consider brightening or diversifying your plant collection with more unusual but easy-to-keep-live plants such as Alocasias, vibrant-colored Philodendrons, air plants, or even carnivorous plants. Their unusual shapes and colors will spark interest and be a striking focal point in your home.
4. Use Temporary Wallpaper for Bold Statements
Temporary wallpaper is a budget-friendly option to enhance a dark corner in the house. This is a fun alternative to permanent wallpaper that you can put up yourself. Temporary wallpaper allows you to create bold, colorful accent walls without the pressure to love them forever. It can even serve to designate space in multi-purpose rooms. For example, use temporary wallpaper to frame your desk, giving you something pretty and inspirational to look at while you work.
5. Transform Furniture with Paint Techniques
While some interior designers will cringe at painting furniture, it’s a valid and more affordable option than replacing furniture. Instead, take the time to do a little research and revamp a tired bedside or coffee table. You can use color-blocking, ombre effects, or stencils to refresh your furniture. Additionally, you can find alternative hardware at thrift stores to add to the new look, completely redefining what it means to have a stylish home.
6. Mix and Match Textures in Unexpected Ways
As every interior design enthusiast knows, mixing textures can elevate a space and instantly refresh its overall look. Try combining textures that typically don’t go together, such as pairing rustic wood with sleek metal or soft fabrics with hard surfaces, to create visual interest and cozy atmospheres while challenging traditional decor norms about matching materials.
7. Create a Family-centered Art Display
We all have a plethora of everyday household items that never seem to return to their homes or are something we typically categorize (just what do we do with the spare buttons that our clothes come with?). So why not use these items like buttons, bottle caps, or spare nuts and bolts to create one-of-a-kind art pieces? This fun, family-friendly home décor idea could keep the kids busy for hours. Designate a small corner in your home to showcase your pieces, which can be changed through the seasons of life.
8. Use Lighting Creatively
Lighting is key to enhancing your living space because it sets the tone and atmosphere for any given room and determines how it is used. Harsher lights are typically used in the kitchen, for example, because it’s a working space, while softer lights are used in social areas and, of course, the bedroom. Following this logic, look to alternative lighting styles such as fairy lights or lanterns for a low-light, cozy atmosphere, while brightly colored LED light strips can embolden a room, giving it a younger, spritely vibe.
9. Incorporate Color through Small Accessories
It’s easy to assume that the only way to bring color and brightness into a room is to paint the walls a lovely yellow color or change out large area rugs. While this isn’t incorrect, another, more affordable approach is to use smaller items that you can re-arrange or change frequently to keep things fresh. These items can include throw pillows and blankets, colored vases, small rugs, and pot plant covers.
Sources
10 Affordable Home Décor Ideas to Transform Your Living Space
40 Tips on How to Decorate With What You Have for an Easy Update
