Interior Design on a Budget
It is always a lot of fun, and sometimes quite rewarding, to look around your house and make some changes to the interior design. When you start to get involved in interior design many people neglect to do a lot of planning. They look at their home, picture this or that here or there, then start buying supplies and begin hammering.
The process of interior design requires a great deal of planning and just because you watch experienced professionals do it in a one hour television show doesn't mean that you can do it that way as well. Poorly executed interior design can cost two or three times as much to fix, and if you do not plan your interior design right, and it turns out all wrong, it can be a very discouraging thing.
But interior design doesn't need to cost a fortune, especially if you plan it well, and there are a lot of ways to do interior design on a shoestring budget.
The first tip is that even the smallest changes can make the biggest impact. If you have been staring at your living room for months trying to figure out how to make it look bigger then try simple things before you plan out any major changes. Move the furniture around. Sometimes furniture in a different place can make a room look huge. You can also try strategically placed mirrors on the wall. Use decorative mirrors and develop a way to put them on the wall without hammering a lot of holes in the wall for nails and such. Try curtains that allow more light and experiment with other such small changes in interior design that can make a huge impact.
A Coat of Paint and Some Throw Pillows
Sometimes the most cliché things wind up being so very true. A coat of paint makes all the difference in the world and a gallon of good paint is not that expensive. If you have a few extra dollars you could even get the easy cleaning kind of paint that would make your life so much easier in the future. Go to your local paint retailer and get color samples to see what colors you want in your interior design project.
Remember that you should never experiment with your walls, always map it out with samples first. Always let your mind go when it comes to a coat of paint and just explore all the possibilities because you never know what may look good without checking it out first. Always plan on putting up at least two coats no matter how complete the first coat may look. Being lazy is not going to make for a good interior design project.
When you decide to try any interior design project do not be intimidated by the thought of doing such a project. If you take your time and carefully map everything out then you will find that more and more ideas start popping into your head. After a while a project like this starts to gain momentum and pretty soon you will be glad you decided to do it.
