Home decor “On a budget”
Tired of ogling the latest styles in brand name home furnishing stores and catalogs, only to find that the price of a small end table equals more than half of your monthly salary?
Be not discouraged – with a little ingenuity, your house can be as beautiful and stylish as a Hollywood celebrity, only a fraction of the cost.
Start with the walls.
It is easy to forget that sometimes just a fresh coat of paint or changing the color of your walls, Can give you brand new look and feel.
Decorating is another way to spice up the room with out hurting your wallet by hiring a contractor. Consider Using stain wood trim to highlight the plaster design on the wall, or use wallpaper boarders to accent the room coloring.
Create ambiance with light. Not like the ability of a lamp. The right lighting can transform any room. Addition of overhead lighting for lighting, and stay away from halogen, try using LED lighting if it fits in your modern decorative scheme.
Wall sconces are a great way for a stylish touch to any room. Look for the type that lends itself to simple self-installation.
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Accessorize.
Another cheap way to a designer looking to buy a few key accessories, including silk pillows, chenille throw blankets, fresh and fragrant candles. Choose an elegant focal point for your dining room table or coffee table as floating candles with colors that accent or tie into the room, fresh flowers, or a ceramic or glass bowl.
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Photos, prints and paintings can be hung around a room to create whatever look or feel you want. Shop flea markets and thrift shops for interesting prints and photos, or visit a discount store for frames and hang some of your own creations.
Buy furniture that will not break your wallet.
Shop Wisely for couches, chairs, rugs, tables, and much more. Real estate sales is always a good place to go never know the treasures yo can find at one., consignment shops are nice, flea markets are also a great source for design, junk and thrift stores can be gold mines for the second, but stylish furniture.
If you do not want to second, shop clearance sales or online. Online furniture stores can be treasure troves for a good choice, because they generally have little overhead and should not pass those costs to you, the consumer, just be careful if it sounds to good to be true it probably is.
If you’re a bit handy with a sewing machine.
Get more cheap but use discounted fabric by sewing upholstery covers for your chairs or dining room chair seat cushions
If you can not sew, buy a cover or shabby chic Tuck in a nice big plate or blanket for a custom cover. Finally, consider simply rearrange your furniture – may add a whole new look for your home.
Use one or all of these tips to achieve the style you want at a very, low cost. Amaze your friends and family with your stylish home, then shock them with the little budget you had to work with. Go ahead! It’s your house and you deserve the best, without braking your wallet.
Kids bedding.
When choosing kids’ bedding, take in consideration of your child’s tastes. Don’t forget, a child’s room is often an extension of her personality. Does your daughter or son like a particular color? Does she or he prefer a certain style? If you follow your child’s lead, she will lead you to the perfect bedding for themselves.
Kids’ bedding is comes in a variety of designs, from space to nascar. When selecting a design you must consider longevity. While your kid might love harry potter this week, you have to think about the future as well. If you don’t mind replacing the bedding frequently, character bedding is fine; otherwise consider themes or patterns that your child can grow with.
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Why to buy wooden floors
Marcus Remodeling on why to buy “Wooden Floors”
Wood floors add to the beauty and sophistication of any house to a great extent. When walking into a well design room with a beautiful wooden floor it can be an eye-opener to what they can add to the room.
The floors are long lasting and can be maintained with very little strain on one’s pocket. The variety of wooden floors out there allows people to pick and choose the color,type and style they like. The floors come in different types like the following:
Parquet Floor 3/4”
Engineered Floor – Strip, Plank, Parquet
Solid Plank Floor 3/4”*3” and up
Solid Strip Floor – T & G up to ¾” up to 3/4”
Some good things about hardwood flooring.
Marcus Remodeling on Wooden Floors.
There are many reasons why a hardwood floor would improve the value and appeal of your home. Installing a wooden floor does add some structural strength to your home. Wood is a natural renewable resource so its price can be cheaper then alternatives. Wooden flooring is also very calming and adds a feeling of serenity to whatever room you place it in.
Hardwood floors rarely needs to be replaced,along with it being easy to care for, it can add thousands of dollars to the value of your home so its always a good choice. You can go with simple, elegant uniform flooring or can be creative with inlays, patterns, and different colors of wood..
Hardwood flooring is a great hypoallergenic choice in flooring; allergens are easily swept or mopped away to keep your home free from excess of irritants. These same irritants will get caught in carpeting and stick to the fibers, where that is not possible on a wooden floor where they have nothing to stick to.
If you have kids hardwood flooring is a better choice than carpeting. It is extremely durable and will show much less wear and tear than carpeting. With kids running around your house every little bit helps and wooden flooring can endure these types of activates with little to no maintenance cost.
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Change your light bulbs to save energy.
Since it’s creation lighting has been a great success, In the 20th Century the energy efficiency has been the main topic for lighting. This new journey for lighting mainly started after the oil crises of the early 70’s. Do to the crisis the cost of electricity went up and owners of commercial buildings looked at their manages to find a way to reduce the cost. The managers of offices,warehouses and stores started to retrofit their buildings with fluorescent lights, minimizing lighting in area’s of the buildings that seemed to have to much lighting. This caused the energy use to drop even though commercial building was still going up.
Today home owners can lower their energy cost drastically by changing out their light bulbs with compact florescent bulbs. Just as the commercial sector did in the 70s homeowners today can start saving a lot of money. These lights use up to 75% less energy then the normal incandescent light bulb.
For instance the light produced by a 100 watt incandescent light bulb can be produced by a 27 watt compact florescent bulb. The difference may not make you rich, but if you replace all the bulbs in the most used rooms you will see a difference on your energy bill.
We suggest changing the lights in your kitchen,living room,dining room and on your porch since these area’s of you home are most likely the rooms that use the most lighting. We also recommend using as much natural sun light during the day to light your home.
These bulbs do cost a bit more but on the bright side they do last a lot longer almost ten times as long as the normal light bulb. They tend to burn bright for around 10,000 hours well a typical bulb only burns for 800-1,000 hours.
With just changing the type of bulbs you use in you home you can cut back on the energy your home uses and lower your monthly energy bill.
