If you want to renovate your home with minimal effort and at low cost, here are ten tips to inspire you to make your home more beautiful.
To renovate an environment or to give an extra touch of novelty to the house it is not always true that you have to resort to important budgets: with a little attention and with the right advice you can achieve very satisfactory results.
1. Use soft colors for small rooms
For all rooms in the house, especially if they are small, the choice of wall colors is very important. The use of light colors and soft pastel shades will help you make the room you want to renovate larger and brighter.
2. Choose the right lighting
Light is not always considered as a fundamental part of furnishing a home, and this is a big mistake. In fact, good lighting, in addition to allowing you to enjoy each environment in a practical and functional way, allows you to create a particular atmosphere, to enhance an object or a piece of furniture and make an environment larger.
3. Use decorative mirrors to add space and light
Mirrors , as well as decorative elements, can help to give ample space to your spaces. They are widely used to create the illusion that an environment is larger and are used to give more brightness .
They also do not take up space and are very easy to place anywhere. The smaller the space, the larger the mirror will be . In this way, perhaps by choosing a solution like the one below, you will be able to give the impression that the environment is really bigger. You can make a space even brighter by placing the mirror directly in front of the light sources.
4. Combine old and new, expensive and inexpensive
The combination of elements with a traditional flavor with furniture and design objects in fact gives the rooms an atmosphere of character and uniqueness.
There are many solutions to combine ancient and modern. A glass or crystal dining table, for example, matches perfectly with chairs with an antique flavor, or a baroque-style chandelier in an ultra-modern kitchen will certainly have a great aesthetic effect and will be able to give great style and character to this environment.
And again: an antique or antiqued mirror, or with a baroque frame, if combined with a modern console table, perhaps in the entrance will immediately give a touch of class to your home.
Finding a balance of shapes and colors is important for a perfect result.
5. Wicker baskets
Wicker baskets are an inexpensive and elegant way to add space.
Beautiful, inexpensive and readily available on the market, wicker baskets can be used as containers for books, magazines, toys in the children’s room, towels in the bathroom or blankets in the closet.
6. Go green
Focus on plants and flowers. To decorate the house, give a touch of color, to give elegance and style to any environment, flowers and plants are a perfect choice: they furnish, perfume and create a wonderful and bucolic atmosphere.It takes very little to give an extra touch of freshness to home environments.
7. Use what you already have to decorate the house
Try to take a look in the attic or basement among the things you no longer use and have kept.
You may have pleasant surprises and brush up on items that can give a retro touch or can inspire you to create DIY decorations.
8. Repaint or re-coat the bookshelves
Repainting or covering bookcases is another simple and very effective way to make your home more beautiful and renovate a room in an economical way. You can paint only the profiles and edges of the bookcase or cover the shelves. In any case, with a little imagination, the result is guaranteed.
9. Pimp your kitchen
To renovate or refresh the kitchen without spending a fortune, the solutions are endless.
Play above all on accessories: changing furniture knobs, adding hooks for morning coffee cups or pots, transforming the kitchen into a small chef’s corner, is a simple and economical way to renovate a small space in the kitchen.
Another nice idea to give an extra touch of novelty and freshness is to choose aromatic plants to keep in the kitchen, perhaps also hung up so that they are always available.
10. Use the rugs
Rugs can be the right idea to change the look of a room or give an extra touch of novelty to an environment. Consider the rug a work of art that enters your home : then choose the style of the rug according to your taste but above all trying to create an effect that goes well with the rest of the house.
