You dont need to spend a fortune on doing up your home. All you need is an aesthetic eye, a creative mind and planning. Whether or not you lead a hectic life, your home should be your haven. It should be a place you can enter at the end of the day, and feel immediately relaxed and relieved to be back. It should be your comfort zone, and when you say Home, Sweet home you should really mean it. Far too many people spend far too less time, money and effort on doing up their home, saving up those pennies for a rainy day. Weve said it before, and were saying it again. You dont need to spend a fortune on doing up your home. All you need is an aesthetic eye, a creative mind and planning. Lots of planning. The biggest mistake people make when doing up their home is that they have no plan in mind as to what they want their place to look like. So they go to the market and pick up whatever they feel looks good. True, this is one way to go about doing things, and if you have a good eye you may pick up nice things and make everything look good together. But if you have a plan in mind, everything you get will be well coordinated and you will not need to spend a packet on expensive decoration items to make your home prettier. One way to do up your home inexpensively and yet ensure that it looks like a home out of a magazine, is to do it up in a fun and funky tropical style. Get your inspiration from colours of the sun, like reds, oranges and yellows. Paint your walls in these colours. You will be surprised as to how cheerful and sunny yellow walls can make your room look. Once the walls have been painted, choose one wall to be the focal wall of attention. Place a large mirror with an ornate frame on that wall. You can leave the other walls bare. Because the colour of your walls are by themselves so bright, you will not need much decoration, and even if you dont hang paintings on every wall, they will still not look bare. Go to flea markets and pick up an assortment of lanterns. Many lanterns come for as little as Rs. 100. Larger lanterns will be more expensive. The key to making lanterns look good is the manner in which you hang them. Hang some lanterns low from the ceiling, hang another on a wall, and place yet another on a stand. Stained glass lamps look great too, and are not very expensive. Plants make for inexpensive and lifelong decoration pieces, and they yield even more plants. Invest in colourful pots, and place smaller plants on stands, on window sills or hang them from the ceiling. Place larger plants in a corner and make the corner come alive. Hang a lantern above the plant and your corner is all set. In fact, hanging brass lamps, lanterns and plants low down from the ceiling in a corner looks very appealing. Instead of investing in fabrics for drapes, consider using chicks on windows. They give a very tropical feel to the place, look great, and are far more inexpensive than curtains.
You don't need to spend a fortune on doing up your home. All you need is an aesthetic eye, a creative mind and planning. Whether or not you lead a hectic life, your home should be your haven. It should be a place you can enter at the end of the day, and feel immediately relaxed and relieved to be back. It should be your comfort zone, and when you say 'Home, Sweet home' you should really mean it.
Far too many people spend far too less time, money and effort on doing up their home, saving up those pennies for a rainy day. We've said it before, and we're saying it again. You don't need to spend a fortune on doing up your home. All you need is an aesthetic eye, a creative mind and planning. Lots of planning.
The biggest mistake people make when doing up their home is that they have no plan in mind as to what they want their place to look like. So they go to the market and pick up whatever they feel looks good. True, this is one way to go about doing things, and if you have a good eye you may pick up nice things and make everything look good together. But if you have a plan in mind, everything you get will be well coordinated and you will not need to spend a packet on expensive decoration items to make your home prettier.
One way to do up your home inexpensively and yet ensure that it looks like a home out of a magazine, is to do it up in a fun and funky tropical style.
Get your inspiration from colours of the sun, like reds, oranges and yellows. Paint your walls in these colours. You will be surprised as to how cheerful and sunny yellow walls can make your room look.
Once the walls have been painted, choose one wall to be the focal wall of attention. Place a large mirror with an ornate frame on that wall. You can leave the other walls bare. Because the colour of your walls are by themselves so bright, you will not need much decoration, and even if you don't hang paintings on every wall, they will still not look bare.
Go to flea markets and pick up an assortment of lanterns. Many lanterns come for as little as Rs. 100. Larger lanterns will be more expensive. The key to making lanterns look good is the manner in which you hang them. Hang some lanterns low from the ceiling, hang another on a wall, and place yet another on a stand. Stained glass lamps look great too, and are not very expensive.
Plants make for inexpensive and lifelong decoration pieces, and they yield even more plants. Invest in colourful pots, and place smaller plants on stands, on window sills or hang them from the ceiling. Place larger plants in a corner and make the corner come alive. Hang a lantern above the plant and your corner is all set. In fact, hanging brass lamps, lanterns and plants low down from the ceiling in a corner looks very appealing.
Instead of investing in fabrics for drapes, consider using 'chicks' on windows. They give a very tropical feel to the place, look great, and are far more inexpensive than curtains.
