It's cool to be frugal. Not only does it prevent money, but it also tickles your creative talents and adds fun and a singular flair to your home. Here are some free ideas for home decor Barclay Butera to get you started - you will be on a roll before you even recognize it.
Mix, don't match.
Gone are the times of the three-piece suite and, therefore, the coordinated cushions and curtains. It's far more enjoyable to use what's already there in your home and mix it in new, unexpected ways. Try an old-fashioned embroidered cushion on an easy modern chair. Or fill up the plain milk bottles with sweets in attractive-looking wrappers and use them rather than flower vases. You need to take things and play them off against each other: serious and witty, dark and lightweight, old and new, shiny and matte, antique and modern, sleek and rustic, finished and frayed. Take some time and experiment until things 'click'; it'll look good at some point.
Pick some flowers
If there is not any bloom, pick up the foliage and grasses instead. Makeup with a green bouquet from the side of the road! If there's not any greenery or the picking of it's strictly verboten, you'll find some pretty pebbles and get them arranged into a painting or in tall glass vessels.
Decorate with food
Fruit makes excellent displays (and you'll still have the health benefits!). Apples and bananas, or oranges and lemons during a bowl look great and supply a lift of visual 'sunshine. The fruit preserves within the glass containers make gorgeous decorating accents (and jellies look great against the light)!
Recycle
Take a tiny purse or bag that you are not using any longer, fill it with little pebbles and switch it into a doorstop. Cover tin cans in fabric or gift wrap and provides them a replacement job within the storage department. Or turn simple drinking glasses into candleholders by filling them halfway up with sand - stick inexpensive white household candles into the sand, and line them abreast of a windowsill or mantelpiece or cluster them together on the table. The more, the merrier.
Make your art
Some of those Picassos are so hard to measure with! So why not arrange your treasures in box frames:
- An antique mocha cup.
- A tiny heirloom.
- A letter from your great-grandmother to your great-grandfather.
Make a background from old fabric or crumpled tissue. Add scrapbook-style hand-written tags, photos, and other lovely things from your hidden treasure troves. The advantage of a shadowbox over a scrapbook is that you can utilize the 3D to full effect, and you get to ascertain your prized possessions every day!
There you're … once you begin getting creative with what's already in your home, you will find that you come up with more and more accessible home decorating ideas of your own. You'll have a stunning, stylish home on a shoestring!
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