WAY OT --Decorating on A Budget
Monkeyhead
a budget. I'm spent out!
Scorpio00girl
"Use What You Have Decorating" by Lauri Ward
She shows how to rearrange your current furnishings to give your home a new,
improved look.
funky diva
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> Hi all. Any one here a mod martha stewart with some cool decorating ideas
on
> a budget. I'm spent out!
Try http://www.brightbeige.co.uk/style/shoestring.htm
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the diva
Syeliab
Plus, think "outside of the box",,, look at things and try to utilize them in
different ways..
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Jzdrgbfd M. Gvfrtygnb Jr.
Decorating Magic and Paint Magic, IIRC, both (definitely the latter) by Jocasta
Innes.
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Q7
Hi all. Any one here a mod martha stewart with some cool decorating ideas on a budget. I'm
spent out!
Paint! If even paint is too pricey, go to your local paint store and ask if they have any
unsold paint available (meaning paint they mixed and a client didn't want). They have a bunch
in t he back for like 1/5 the price of retail. They just turned my loose with a screwdriver
and a bag of dipsticks! The only catch with this is I rarely found enough paint to cover a
room. I just did accent walls, instead, and painted some of my crappy furniture.
-Heather in Oregon
Mz. Kitka
"Pad: The Guide to Ultra-Living" by Matt Maranian
Lowe's How to Arrange Furniture link
http://www.lowes.com/Lowes/howto/howToDocument.asp?ID=arrngfurn&CATALOGID=20
Digs Magazine
www.digsmagazine.com
Home Store (look in the Own & Improve section)
www.homestore.com
Do-It-Yourself
www.diynet.com
Home & Garden TV
www.hgtv.com
Look on the www.about.com site and I thing you can find the general
decorating topic and then go more specific from there
Also try ivillage.com
Figure out what style(s) you want to decorate in and go from there.
Try hardware stores, thrift shops, dollar stores, stores like
Marshall's and TJ Maxx, fabric stores, art supply stores, etc. Watch
HGTV or the Style Network if you get it. What I did in art supply
stores, hardware, and thrift is just took the time and walked all over
the store. You'd be surprisd where the wierdest inspirations come
from. For example, I once had curtain rods that were each 2 eye
screws, 2 nuts, and one long piece of threaded bar, cut to fit. I just
ran the threaded bar through the curtain (from the fabric store),
screwed in the eye screws on either side of the window, and put it up
between the eyescrews and nutted them on either side so the bar
wouldn't fall. Very industrial looking. Art supply stores are great
for finding storage, makeup brushes, beautiful paper, craft books, and
if you're an artist, art stuff!
Hope this helps get you started!
Jzdrgbfd M. Gvfrtygnb Jr.
<<The only catch with this is I rarely found enough paint to cover a room.>>
Well, if you find complementary or close-enough shades, you can mix several
gallons together. (yes, it works)
Monkeyhead
We're definitely painting--its a total scuzzy bachelor pad of five
years.
I bought some cool glass clip frames to display my vast postcard
collection..
I have had to stop myself from buying any more candles. This store
near me is going out of business so I hooked up with those humongous
three wick candles for 3 bucks!!
back to work (groan)
jess
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gracias!
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Erica Bial
: Hi all. Any one here a mod martha stewart with some cool decorating ideas on
: a budget. I'm spent out!
paint is your friend.
so is Target.
and Ikea.
make stuff. Use old items in novel ways (like I couldn't afford to re-do
my kitchen, so instead I bought some heat-resistant enamel paint and
spray-painted my oven and fridge white (they were a dingy yellow), painted
my cabinets white (they were cheesy brown laminate),replaced their handles
(with inexpensive-but-nice-looking ones from Home Depot),and went over the
floor with self-stick vinyl tiles. I didn't have the energy nor gumption
to remove the tacky wallpaper that was in there - so I primed it well and
painted over it. Took down all the moldings and repainted them.
Installed some REALLY goodlooking shelving that I ordered from Ikea over
the sink (integrated into a custom paint-treatment I did myself). Took
down the light fixtures, cleaned well, spray painted matte silver (they
were gold-coloured),replaced with nice-looking bulbs.
The kitchen table and chairs arean ugle set we inherited from Todd's
grandmother. I cannot afford to replace them right now with anything
really great. So I made a tablecloth from some fantastic fabrics striched
together.
The kitchen looks like a whole new place. not pricy.
window treatments can make a big huge difference, as can changing what is
hanging on the wall or from the cieling.
changing an area rug can change the whole character of a room (we do this
seasonally in the living room - change the rug under thee coffee table and
the throw pillows... big impact, small bucks. Same is true with festive
lighting (we have some purple little lights we sometimes hang for
parties,as well as some much nicer little silver lantern thingies)
Add a mirror. If you cannot find a nice mirror you like, you can buy a
swanky photo frame and a pieceof mirror - viola - new mirror.
give yourself a chance to really create - and you'll not only get a new
look, you'll feel so cool that you thought it up yourself!
good luck.
erica
Erica Bial
: Well, if you find complementary or close-enough shades, you can mix several
: gallons together. (yes, it works)
you can also water them down and rag-roll a few like shades right over
whatever the base is that you have now...
I have been wanting to do this in two yellows in my living room.
erica
Aquari211
washing technique. I used two tonal colors...a vibrant flamingo pink and a very
pale pink over that (dilute the paint with water and brush in a crissscross
motion). It came out beautifully! It looks like brushed orchid pink suede and I
love it :-) I could look at my walls all day. I want to tackle the bathroom
next, using blues, to mimic the look of the sky. Debbie Travis has a book
called Painted House which details all sorts of painting techniques.
aquari
Jzdrgbfd M. Gvfrtygnb Jr.
<<...you can also water them down and rag-roll a few like shades right over
whatever the base is that you have now...>>
Not only that, you can also do all sorts of interesting "broken" color effects
beyond rag-rolling/ragging. (Sponging, stippling, etc.)
Look for any tips from Lynette Jennings (IMO head & shoulders above MS in this
regard) on cheap-o chic.