Home Improvement Ideas With Style
It's both fun and rewarding to turn your house into a home, making it your own with renovations and personalization. Every few years, rooms need makeovers to keep them looking fresh, interesting and to keep you happy with the look of your home. Keep reading for great ideas you can use in every room of your house to liven things up without spending a lot of time, money or making anything too permanent, especially if you are hit with decorating-fever often!
1. The kitchen. Spicing up the favorite room in your house is easy with a few new fixtures; change up the knobs or handles on all the cabinets and drawers and install a new faucet. Your kitchen will immediately take on a bright and stylish appearance that is both new and attractive. Get creative in your selection of fixtures, like trying twisted iron or distinctive brass; hang a few still life portraits featuring fruits and wine bottles to complete the look.
2. The bathroom. Re-grouting provides a quick and clean face-lift to a dingy looking bathroom and is relatively inexpensive. Replace the entire ensemble of shower curtain, rugs, vanity accessories and window dressing and your bathroom can look like something straight out of a magazine. Work out your color scheme in advance and coordinate it with the paint and lighting already there, to maximize the impact of your project.
3. Bedrooms. Since the bedroom is such a personal space, it's easy to get more creative and unique when considering ways to improve it. Paint one wall an abstract color and match everything else to it; buy multiple identical frames and fill them with beautiful subjects containing that same color-theme and the entire room is tied together with artistic elegance. Try putting in living trees to add warmth and vibrancy or to fill a large space quickly.
4. The living room or den. Depending on whether this room sees a lot of play or tranquility, the possibilities can be endless. Remove old scatter rugs and match the new ones to fantastic ideas in throw pillows; cast a knit blanket over the back of the sofa for a splash of complementary color. Steam-cleaning upholstery and carpeting will also instantly breathe new life into your living space, as will a quick coat of fresh paint. Let your decorating ideas be fueled by the common activity of the room as well, hanging elegant paintings and plants if it's used more for relaxing and conversation or try big and bold artistic statements if the primary use is entertaining and game playing.
Spiffing up your home is a fabulous way to enjoy living in it and helping it hold its aesthetic and market values. Although most people only have one or two homes in their entire life time, the joy of decorating never seems to end. Use these ideas and add more of your own to find new and exciting ways to rejuvenate the various rooms in your home as often as the mood strikes you. Keeping it easy and economical means you can do it that much more often!
