Cheap and Easy Decorating Ideas

So, your home is less than ready for a Home Beautiful photo shoot, but you don’t have thousands of dollars to pour into interior design.  You need some cheap and easy decorating ideas, but you definitely don’t want your home to look like it came cheap and easy.  Can you really decorate a home on a big-box store kind of budget, but still have it look like you paid an interior designer to commission original designs and procure to-the-trade only pieces?  The answer is YES, and this website will show you how.

From choosing the right paint color to selecting just the right decorative accessories, there are a few tricks and secrets (and not-so-secrets) that anyone can use to take their home from average to model-home perfect.  Even if you don’t think you have a knack for home decorating, all you need to accomplish this is an awareness of your own tastes, the desire to follow some simple rules, and some ideas to get you going.  The key is to learn the differences between “cheap” and “tacky,” between “easy” and “half-baked,” and between creating a decorating style of your own and just grabbing whatever is cheap in the clearance section on any given day.

Have you ever gone into a friend’s or neighbor’s home only to think, “That’s it, I can never let her see the inside of my house.  Hers is just too perfect.  She must have spent thousands of dollars decorating that home” ?  What would surprise most people is just how cheap and easy it can actually be to give your home a very expensive, stylish look.  Easy instructions for original art pieces, some tips on where to find cheap alternatives to expensive-looking pieces, and easy do-it-yourself projects. . .this website can give you all the ideas you need to jump-start your decorating project.

So what project is first on your list?  Click on the links at the right to find exactly what you need for your personal design.  Decorating a bedroom?  We’ve got cheap do-it-yourself projects to create a serene getaway right in your own home.  Need some ideas for a boring bathroom?  A few easy steps will take you from boring to beckoning.  Have a family room that is functional and comfortable but needs some style?  Our decorating ideas will have your friends wondering where you found the time and money.  What about the small details?  Need an area rug but can’t believe the huge price tags you’ve seen?  We’ve got two cheap ideas for solving that dilemma.  Maybe there is a room in your house that has been neglected and you need some cheap decorating, but you also need it FAST (house guests coming for the holidays? In-laws visiting?)  Our ideas can help you fake it—I’ve taken a formal dining room from empty to fabulous in two days and $300 including furniture; and a guest bedroom from spare room catch-all to bed and breakfast haven in three days and less than $200.  How about a child’s room?  You need some easy decorating ideas to make it fun and personal for the child to enjoy, but cheap enough to not feel bad about changing things as the child grows.  Even the big paint color dilemma—we’ve got some easy ideas for narrowing down the search and figuring out what you really want.

Find the project you want to do first, and let’s get started with some cheap and easy decorating ideas.