My bare walls and lack of decor have gotten to me. So, I've been searching the house, the garage, the outdoors and Goodwill for inexpensive ways to perk up our living areas.
We repainted our dining nook a few months ago. We went from a dark, burnt orange to a light, neutral. We haven't had any window coverings for this space and the new wall color left them screaming "dress me!!". I "shopped" my house and found the perfect window coverings.
Thanks to this post, some ribbon and safety pins, some window drapes from my bathroom became window valances.
The curtains from my bedroom are a perfect replacement for the not-so-attractive-half-broken vertical blinds on our sliding glass door.
Yes, now my bedroom windows are screaming at me. At least they're not screaming at everyone who walks in our front door...
Several months ago, I "borrowed" my pictures from our stairwell in order to make a gallery wall in our entry. We have had bare nails and walls since then. I put my creative juices to work.
I shopped Goodwill (that word looks funny to me now...Goodwill Goodwill Goodwill) and found some wooden "art". I so wish I had taken before pics, but I didn't (bad blogger!). I had 2 identical, rectangular shapes and one larger, squarish one.
I used paint stripper, water and some elbow grease to remove the original art. Then I spray primed them. I painted them off-black (this was when I realized I should be taking pictures)
Then free-handed some creamy white swirly-flowery things.
After they had dried really well, I distressed and scraped the whole thing to make it more faded and soft.
I found 2 matted pictures in our storage room. I removed the art, cut a couple of pieces of fabric and framed them.
This is the end result.
I am pretty pleased with it! Especially the price tag *wink*
I have several other little projects I've been working on that I will share after Thanksgiving. Hope you have a great one!!
This article gives lots of good ideas on adding some new touches to your place to make it look new and lively instead of thinking about renovating the whole house. Would give these ideas a try soon.
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