Best Money Saving Interior Designing Ideas

One of the hardest facts about owning a home is that you can’t always afford how expensive your interior design taste is. There are ways to cut corners, and still get fantastic ideas for your home.  Wouldn’t you love to find ways in your everyday life to save money and get wonderful interior design ideas? Here is some of the best money saving interior designing ideas for your home.

Determine your budget before you begin: Let’s face it, if you didn’t have a budget your home would be already complete, and you wouldn’t need these money saving tips.  Everyone needs to set a budget to have boundaries on your wallet and your home. Once you’ve set one, buy a few major pivotal pieces to center the theme of your room around.  Then use thrift shops and department store clearance areas to fill in with gorgeous accessories.

Use free sources around you: From magazines, the internet, to satellite home and garden programs the world is at your fingertips for interior design ideas.  Peruse through magazines, and home decoration books to get a sense of what your taste is.  Visit home improvement stores and collect paint and material samples to start making an “idea” folder of what inspires you. Determine what your personal style is. Is it: Vintage, Modern, Bohemian, French Country, choose your style and start planning.

Maximize your existing furniture: Consider re-upholstering furniture with updated colored and styled materials. Slip covers offer a quick and easy solution for changing out furniture for different seasons and or occasions. Re-finish wood furniture or use a fresh coat of paint on headboards and mirror frames.  Try using online planning tools to play around with different colors and options before you take the plunge.

Use your family’s artwork/collectibles as art: Shadow boxes are a wonderful way to display your kid’s artwork, camp projects, and sports medals/awards around your home.  Instead of throwing them in a drawer, choose ones that have lots of color and display them on a contrasting color wall. Frame milestone memorabilia and see the pride your kids will take in having their work displayed. Cheap for you, priceless for the family.

Door pulls and handles can change your cabinets: Don’t have money to get all new cabinetry in your kitchen or bathroom? Install new door pulls and handles to give a new look to a previously boring or out-of-date door pull.  Want a pulled together look? Match your plumbing fixtures, lighting fixtures and door pulls with the same metal. This ties all the elements together beautifully.

Give your lighting a makeover: Lamps and lighting can make or break a space.  By buying new lampshades you can give an old boring lamp new life.  If you have a custom color palette in your home, make your own lampshade! They have kits that you can pick your coordinating fabric and embellish it with ornamentation, ribbon, etc… Visit your local craft and hobby store and see how many choices you have to choose from, or be adventurous and create one from scratch.

Don’t underestimate using mirrors: Mirrors have reinvented themselves in the last few years in the design world, and they are bigger than ever in interior design. For cheap interior designing ideas visit your local craft store and buy inexpensive mirrors to use as mosaic pieces on furniture, or picture frames. Make your own frames for larger mirrors and customize the look to hang in kid’s rooms or in your bathroom.