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Projects You Can Do at Your Home, for Your Home

Projects You Can Do at Your Home, for Your Home

Redecorating doesn’t have to break your bank. If you want to make some changes and upgrades around the house without spending a crazy amount of money, here are a few simple projects you can do at your home, for your home. These ideas and projects are cheap and will make a large difference in your house!

Get Creative and Make Your Own Wallpaper

Follow this new trend—pick a simplistic design that can be painted on the wall to spice up the room. Many just choose a wall to be the accent wall where the design is going to be painted, so it’s not overwhelming. Get yourself some painter’s tape and pick out the color you want the design in, and you are good to get started!

All you must do is put the painter’s tape on the wall in the design you are planning on executing and then paint away. This accent wall can do wonders for the room!

Reupholster or Repaint Your Furniture

Don’t have the money to buy new furniture for your bedroom? No worries. There are countless tips and tricks you can do to update the room for less than nothing money-wise. You can pick out some fabric and reupholster your headboard or even find a neutral color and repaint your dressers and side tables.

When you are done making these changes it won’t even look like the same room.

Pull Out Your Sewing Machine

Accessories make or break a room. Pick out some new fabric and make some throw pillows for your coach. Or, even better, use that fabric and make a new tablecloth for your kitchen. Both of these items will take the furniture that you have in these rooms and bring some new light and color to them. If you get the fabric for cheap, the only thing this project is going to cost is your time.

Create a Picture Ledge

Simple, easy, and cute! You can put this picture ledge in the room of your choice. This project, just like the others, can be cheap yet effective. Go to your local dollar store or thrift shop and find an assortment of colors and shape picture frames. Print out some of your favorite photos of your friends and family and set them up nicely. If you have a ledge, perfect! If you don’t, you can make one or even use two shelves on a dresser.

All four of these tips are simple, easy, and cheap projects you can do at your home, for your home. When you are looking for something to do instead of watching Netflix, get started on one of these! You will be beyond happy with the difference these small, cheap changes make.


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