Did you ever wake up one morning, look around your
bedroom and want to pull the cover back over your head?
Join the club. Humans are one of the few creatures that
frequently rearrange and re-do their living space.
Bedrooms are the most frequent redecorating candidate.
Every so often, for reasons unknown to many, we look at
that cosy nest we carefully created and think "ugh."
It's boring, it's outdated, I'm sick of that colour.
Grand visions of a totally gutted and remodeled space
may fill your mind, until you look at your bank balance.
Don't be glum! Redecorating doesn't need to cost an arm
and a leg!
The quickest way to a new look is a splash
of paint. Even if you use the same color (because you
had paint left over), a fresh coat of color
reinvigorates the room, makes it look cleaner, newer. If
you've grown tired of your wall color, choose a new one,
drape protective cloths over the furniture and get
rolling. The endorphins pumping through your veins after
painting the whole room may just fire up some other
decorating ideas for your bedroom.
One reason a fresh coat of paint reinvents a room is
that the different colour gives the space a whole new
identity. The same idea applies to your bedding. If your
budget is extremely limited, you might start by adding
new pillow shams. Usually sold as a separate piece from
comforters, sheets, or pillowcases, a sham is a highly
decorative pillow covering. When making the bed in the
morning, you slip your covered pillow into the
sham-remove the sham at night before you go to sleep. If
you find a great deal on pillow shams, buy a bunch-you
can fill them with plain foam pillows and give your bed
a luxurious look by piling them on.
A new comforter or bedspread is another way to
redecorate your bedroom inexpensively. Check local malls
for discount linen stores, or browse the Internet for
great deals on beautiful, but cheap comforters and bed
skirts.
A simple way to create a coordinated look without
spending a lot of money is to use bed sheets to make
window treatments. Often, comforters are sold in "bed
sets," which contain the comforter, as well as a fitted
sheet, flat sheet and pillowcases. Since you sheets will
usually be covered by the comforter, you can use the
fitted and flat sheets as material to frame bedroom
windows. If you don't sew, use the special "no-sew"
fabric glue sold in craft and fabric stores to hem a
nice edge. In a pinch, you can hold a hem using a hot
glue gun.
Decorating or redecorating a bedroom is often a
matter of changing one or two elements. You can have a
new look even if you don't feel up to the task of
choosing colors or shopping for the best bedding deal.
Sometimes, all that's needed is to re-arrange the
furniture. And if that simple change leads to others,
good for you!
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