How to give your home a new makeover on a budget?

Ever thought about giving a new makeover to your home but scared that it will cost you an arm and a leg?

Ideas of giving your home a new makeover are often nipped in the bud due to the budgetary constraints. Most people think that remodeling your place can be quite expensive and they won’t be able to afford them.

Fortunately, that isn’t the case as there are plenty of economical methods for transforming your place from top to bottom.

We live in the digital age, where anything can be learned online. You can search for different ways to reduce the cost and learn different ways to redecorate the place yourself. You can combine your own creativity with a bit of DIY knowledge that will ultimately reduce the cost.

So, if you are eager to give your home a new makeover, take a peek at our suggestions to do it in a low budget.

• Do it yourself
• Not everyone can afford to hire the services of professionals when it comes to redecorating your home. Almost all the remodeling or redecoration jobs are much cheaper when you do it yourself. Another satisfying perk of this method is to show off something you did with your own creativity.
• According to a 2012 study at Harvard, people usually place a higher value on the things they built themselves and consider them equally valuable to the work of professionals.
• Show your creativity

No, you don’t have to be a fully trained artist to show your creative instincts. A little creative imagination and proper execution can help you to make your masterpiece.

From replacing your curtains with chicks or Roman blinds to just placing an elegant mirror in a narrow passageway can give a completely different look. You just need to bring out your inner creative artist and reap the fruits in endless redecoration possibilities.

• Focal point

Creation of a focal point in a room is one of the basic and economical ways to change its outlook. You can emphasize a particular corner or an object and revolve everything around it. Like in the case of a living room, TV is usually the focal point. You can draw attention towards it by revolving your sofas, decorations and other furniture. This method is viable for all the rooms in a house, and the great thing is that you don’t have to spend even a penny for its implementation.

• Updating your current accessories

Purchasing new furniture and accessories to match a new color scheme or design can be quite expensive. So, we will recommend you to cut down the costs by taking the refurbishing route. Instead of purchasing a new sofa set, you can get the upholstery changed. Painting the rough edges and adding matching covers will help you update your current accessories.

• Rearranging the furniture

The entire ambiance of the room can be changed dramatically through a little rearrangement of the furniture. For example, a piece of furniture equipment might be blocking the traffic flow in a particular room and creates a bad first impression. A simple positional change will not only improve the traffic flow but also change the overall outlook of the entire room. Sometimes, the problem is that you have too much furniture in a particular room. Moving the unwanted pieces to a different room where they fit better should be your call of action. If other rooms are full too, consider giving them away to the people who can use them, or you can also sell them online.

• Maintaining a theme

We all have accessories in our homes that don’t match a particular room’s color scheme. Some accessories are only suitable for a particular room, and you can’t change their location, like a living room sofa or a bed in a bedroom. But you can always make a little alteration or additions to enhance the ambiance. Like, adding matching pillows in a complementary pattern or changing curtains and bedcovers. Painting or polishing your furniture items can help you in coordinating them to a particular room’s color scheme.

• Secondhand shopping

Sometimes, you just have to buy some extra furniture to complete a makeover for your house. But remember, even if you have to buy a new one that doesn’t necessarily mean that you should buy a new one. To keep the costs down, you can purchase a second-hand version of the required furniture. There are a lot of places where you can easily purchase them at an affordable price, like thrift stores, reuse centers, and others.

• Wallpaper

Yes, we know installing a room with wallpapers is more expensive than painting it. So having a full room redecorated with wallpapers is not your best option when on a limited budget. But you can definitely make a big impact on your room’s outlook by using it in small quantity. You can design a particular wall of with wallpapers or use them to highlight some small spaces. Use your imagination to create unique looks in different rooms that won’t be possible to create using paint.

• Changing the lights 

It is a refreshing change to see your room in a new set of lighting. A little alteration in the lighting systems of your room is one of the cheapest and easiest ways to give your room a new feel and color. And, you can trim the cost down even further by doing it yourself.

• Go green

Having plants in your house, especially in the living room provides freshness and color at a nominal cost. Like adding a cluster near the hallway or arranging a few planters in the corner will compliment your room’s overall outlook. If you can’t maintain living plants, then try placing some artificial ones in your home.

• Bug-free home

No matter how great your home looks like, the crawling bugs inside your home can derail its beauty completely. Hiring the services of professionals can be very costly for you. Locate the origin of infestation because that’s the best to start killing these little creatures. Use of insecticides and bug killer sprays can make your life easier to eliminate them forever and keep your house bugs-free.

But since they are poisonous chemicals, keep them out of the reach of children and pets.

Conclusion:

Doing your home makeover by yourself not only saves you the money but also gives you a sense of pride and ownership. Budgetary constraints won’t let you think outside the box and be creative. So you can take a step forward to reduce the cost by bringing out your creativity. You can achieve much more in redecorating your home than you could have done by just hiring a contractor.