10 Cheap Ways to Redecorate a Living Room
Decorating Tips and Tricks to Update your Living Room for Under $100
Aug 19, 2009
Living rooms serve multiple functions, they’re where a family gathers to relax, to be entertained, to entertain, to play, to have family meetings and more. This important room is where so many family milestones occur, your child’s first steps, family holidays, and noteworthy celebrations and all of these occasions are photographed. The photographic history of your life will be set against the backdrop of your living room so keeping it trendy and stylish is going to be worth your time and money.
Decorating on a budget in a living room can be tricky because the pieces are often expensive and large but with a little work you can redecorate your living room for under $100.
The following 10 tips and tricks for redecorating your living room on a budget can be used separately or combined together for a more noticeable change in your living room décor.
Add Paint
With your $100 budget painting the entire living room may not be possible. If it’s not you can create a border or do some decorative painting. Or you could stretch paint you already have by adding a glaze and doing a faux finish.
Slip Covers
New furniture for a living room is just not going to fall into your budget but slip covers might just make it. Modern slip covers look so good, especially if they’re designed for your furniture, that you can’t even tell. If you can sew you can create your own slip covers by purchasing remnants on sale.
Throw Pillows
If slip covers are still not fitting into the $100 living room redecorating budget then you can get a new look by changing out your throw pillows. And you can stretch the budget even further if you make them yourself, even if you can’t sew, fabric glue can help you make your own throw pillows.
Throw Rug
New flooring would obviously be out of the budget but a nice throw rug can spruce up the floor and bring new vibrancy to the entire room.
Window Treatments
If you can sew then you can easily create new and exciting window treatments but there are ways to make no sew curtains that look just as fantastic as store bought ones and they’re less expensive.
Lighting
Lighting can be expensive, especially for a living room, but consider adding a new lamp to create a new look and feel. If the lamp you want is out of your $100 living room decorating budget then use your money to purchase new lampshades or light bulbs with a different wattage.
Highlight the Heirlooms
Take family heirlooms out of storage and frame them or display them in a way that draws attention to your family heritage and brings a different feel to your living room.
Unusual Shopping
Living rooms can actually hold a lot of unusual pieces so look outside the typical furniture stores and hit lawn and garden stores, garage sales, resale shops and other places where you don’t normally shop for living room furniture.
Decorate with Nature
Pieces of nature can create incredible decorative touches and are inexpensive. Jars of stones, shells, nuts, and dried flowers are attention grabbers but there are more ways you can incorporate natural elements into your decorating scheme for less.
Artwork
Sure art will break your $100 living room budget, unless you do it yourself. If you have an artistic bent then you should be displaying your own creations. If you’re not artistically minded then abstract art is easy and there’s really no way to go wrong with it.
Always remember to shop wisely and creatively when decorating on a budget and you’ll be able to stretch your money further and get better results. To give the rest of your home a boost consider using $100 budgets to redecorate your kitchen, rejuvenate a bathroom, and spice up a bedroom.
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