Give Your Home A Makeover
Probably you are sick of that old furniture you have been sitting on for the last who knows how many years. Even the color of the walls seems now a distant memory of the one you decided to paint them a year and a half ago. Nobody would like to ask you what you think of your kitchen cabinets in fear of you throwing something heavy to them in response. Well, if one or all of the above is true, perhaps it is time to consider a house makeover.
Next time there is sunshine outside, open the windows and try to observe the space you live in. What in there does not seem to fit? How do the walls look when bright sunlight hits them directly? Does your furniture seem used or filthy? If you have not had a chance to take such a close and careful look yet, next time you get a chance just sit somewhere in the room you spend most of your time while awake and pay attention to every single detail. Then take a piece of paper and write down all those things you would like to change. If your bank account does not have the appropriate funds for the expensive makeover you are secretly admiring on the glossy pages of your favorite magazine, do not despair. There is still room for you to change what you do not want to continue having and you got a pair of useful hands and legs to help you reach your goal.
First decide on the walls color. Does it seem that a brighter color or another type of paint would work better? If yes, the most inexpensive but drastic change you can invest on, is changing the color of your walls. Place everything carefully into another room, cover the floor and the window or door frames with that blue tape you will purchase from the local tool shop and paint a small part of the wall with the color samples you can get for free from any home supplies store. Which one does it seem to be of your liking? If you now are sure that the bright yellow you wanted for your living room is not a good choice, go with something less extreme and you will be amazed with the result. You do not need to have any experience before painting your walls. You just need to do it carefully. Your local suppliers store employees will give you all the advice and equipment you will need and the rest is your deal. If you are still insecure of the outcome your effort will have, a good idea is to ask a friend that has done it before to come and help you out. You can offer dinner or a movie in exchange for their help and before you know it a group of people will be ringing your bell for a chance to paint that walls you want to revive.
Now that the walls are ready, check your furniture. First the heavy big ones and then continue with the smaller ones. If these are definitely of your liking, then clean them up and keep them in the room. You can change their place and move them around depending on the focal point you want to have inside the room. If the coach for instance is really big, you should probably begin from finding the best place to place it first before moving the rest of the furniture back inside. Play around and see how it feels. Then carefully, place each item you want to keep back inside the room. Before throwing something out, try to imagine how that would look like if it had another color or if was placed somewhere else. Experiment and find the ones that you would like to keep with or without performing any changes on them.
Then try to "garnish" the room. Embellishing the room with the right color of curtains, lamps, pictures or frames, can have a tremendous effect to the final outcome. See, check, compare and enjoy your "new" space. It might cost you close to nothing but it will be a huge change to come back from work and feel again that you entered your "home."
