Looking for cheap ways to decorate apartment. any tips would be welcome?
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The success of any decorating scheme depends on how well it suits all the members of your family. To create a décor that you will be happy with, think about what you want and also what you don’t want.
It’s a good idea to know what you have before you begun to change things. As you begin to pull your design ideas together, think about your preference and what will work in your home.
Color can work wonders... it can change the look of a room and change your feeling about the room. You can start by looking through magazines, and catalogs. Give yourself plenty of time, it will take longer than you think, and your ideas will develop as you go.
Gathering samples is a great way to begin. If you are starting with a color, your samples might include fabric, paint chips, wallpaper, carpet, wood, stone, and tile.
Knowing what you can spend on a project will give you a clearer idea of what you can achieve. If you’ll on a limited budget, mark off those things that will make the most difference, such as a new wall color and a new sofa.
You can set the mood of a room in lots of ways, such as lights, and furnishings. There are no hard or fast rules or must-do sequence for this process.
Other answers:
Freecycle.org
It is a web community that people give away good useable things that they no longer need, to other members. This keeps it out of the landfills too.
Freecycle.org
It is a web community that people give away good useable things that they no longer need, to other members. This keeps it out of the landfills too.
there are a ton of things that you can get for cheap go to goodwill or garge sales find things that look like what your looking for and just paint one wall the same color as it and there you go or go all white with another base color
Paint is cheap.
Garage sales are cheap.
Thrift stores are cheap.
Check the clearance racks at Target.
The "Minimalists" look is chic, modern and since you don't need a lot of furniture, cheap.
try some handicrafts or put some fragrance candles all over the place or try some wrought iron furniture... or try to make something with ur own creativity...for eg.
use a paper egg tray, colour with various colours or in patterns, then put small cut mirrors on the various mounds of it and on the sides hang plastic tubes with small christmas bells...
try paper mache artifacts which are quite cheap... try chinese stuffs available in the market like face of buddha, laughing buddha, or chinese lanterns, chimes... !!
I made a coffee table that turned out great. I bought an old glass table top for 20.00 and put it over another that was from a very ugly picnic table. In between I put a tablecoth that matches my living room and dozens of pictures of my kids and my bf's nieces and nephews. They love looking for their own photos and they can't break them
I should add that I cut down the table base to the same height as the couch.
There is some good info here.