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How to Decorate Your Room for Free
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Tags: Bedroom Decor, Decorate for Free, Inexpensive Decor
If you're tired of looking at the same old room, but are on a limited budget, transform your space with stuff you already own. You'll find lots of decorating items already in your home. Sometimes it just takes a little imagination to change an old unused item into something you'll love having in your room, something that speaks loudly of your personality.
| | The first step in this project is to either empty the room of furniture or move the furniture to the center of the room in order to work on the walls. Adding wallpaper to plain walls is a fun way to spruce up a room. Ask a wallpaper store for swatch books they're throwing out. Pick your favorites squares and glue them on your wall. What a great way to express your personality. |
| | Next, arrange your furniture in the most efficient manner. An easy solution to adding more floor space is to place the long side of your bed against the wall. Throw home-made pillows along the side for a classy decorator touch. Check the garage or other store room for old towels or sheets to make your throw pillows. Cut 12 X 12 squares sew them together and stuff them with more old material or other old pillows. |
| | Continue to add your own personal touch by using material from old clothes to make curtains for the windows. Assuming you already have a curtain rod in place, just measure the space where you plan to place the curtains. Cut your clothes in squares, sew the squares together in whatever order you like and hang them up. You'll love the look of these personalized window coverings! |
| | Once you've completed the walls, the bed, and the curtains it's time to add special touches to any tables in your room. One great idea for a girl's room is to make a jewelry tree out of old tree branches. Cut the branches, clean them up, decorate them and put them in a vase on your dresser. |
| | Also, Check the garage for old lamps, or throw rugs that may just need washing and sprucing up a bit. |
| | I have found that dumpster diving and alley shopping can add significant character to a room. You might for instance find an architectural element - like a carved piece for the walls - or a piece of 'new' old furniture. |
| | Another great free thing for a young person's room is the homemade wastepaper basket. Find an appropriate sized cardboard box seal one end and cut the flaps off of the other. Then cut out print media images - from magazines or newspapers or any other source - and glue them to the box. These make wonderful art projects for the room |
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