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How To Completely Change The Look Of Your House With Just A Small Bit Of Paint?
Due to the recession and current economic status many of us that would regularly remodel our bedroom, living room, or kitchen or even entire home are not doing so this year.
In fact many of us choose to remodel once a season because we get sick of the way things are looking and we want a change as the seasons change. Well there is a way to completely change the look of your house without spending more than $25.
Repaint your baseboards! Look at your current baseboards. Walk around your house and look at all of your current baseboards. I don’t know about you but mine are white and boring. The room I am sitting in has beige walls and white baseboards. If I changed the baseboards to an olive green or maybe a burnt red it would change the entire way this room not only looks but also feels.
If you are a novice with the paint brush the trick is to putting tape between the baseboard and the wall and the baseboard and the carpet. You will need two sizes of paint brush; one small and one medium to large. You can run the medium to large paintbrush along the center of the baseboards and use the small one to touch it up near the wall and carpet.
How To Use Flowers Around Your Home To Give It A Whole New Look?
Flowers aren’t used enough in people’s homes. Sure, they’re expensive but they can also be affordable from a second-hand or fabrics store. Look around your house and see how many, if any, flowers you have.
Most people don’t have any. Now look at the spaces you have available for flowers; the back of the toilet, top of the stove, kitchen table or breakfast nook, guest room bed stand, home office printer cabinet.
The average person cannot afford to buy fresh flowers every week however you should consider checking out your local farmers market. On weekends my farmers market has beautiful season-appropriate flowers from spring until fall. Usually you can get a bundle for a couple dollars.
If buying fresh flowers weekly is not an option consider going to a second hand store or fabric store and looking at their artificial flower arrangements. Yes there are some tacky artificial flower arrangements out there but there are also very pretty and very organic looking arrangements as well.
I found a precious bundle of what looks like prairie flowers at a little boutique in a strip mall. I put them into a glass vase at home and they’re on my kitchen table.
How To Make Your Home A Safer Place To Be?
While we concentrate on the aesthetics of our home decoration; the paint matching the accent pillows matching the paintings.
However how often do we think to stop and make sure our lovely decorated home is a safe place for us and our loved ones as well?
Do you have a swimming pool? If so is there a privacy pool fence around it? Some states regulate homeowners’ associations and mandate there are privacy fences around any swimming pools, however some states or cities do not mandate this.
Secure your swimming pool so that neighborhood children are not able to slip into it as well as neighborhood pets.
Do you have a trampoline? Do you have a swing set? Do you have a garden? These are hidden safety issues just waiting to arise. Make sure your trampoline is secured and neighborhood children cannot get to it. Also consider putting a net around your trampoline.
If you have a swing set it is extremely important to make sure it is in top-notch condition at all times. If there are cracks in the foundation of the swing set or if it is getting too old consider taking it down for safety purposes.
How To Create The Perfect At Home Office Space?
Working from home is becoming increasingly more standard these days with the recent layoffs and the state of the economy.
Working from home as a collector, a graphic designer and freelance writer are some of the up and coming professions you can do from home.
Many of these people are finding it very difficult to work from home and stay motivated. There are the dogs that want attention, there is laundry to be done, and you want to make a homemade pie for desert tonight.
But seriously you have to make working from home as professional and as much of a priority as you would if you were still going to the firm every day from 7:30 to 5:30. How exactly do you do that? How do you make your home office functional? How do you create the perfect at home office space?
The room that you designate as your home office design needs to be just that; a home office otherwise you will find yourself going in there at midnight on a Sunday when you really don’t need to.
