With the holiday season fast approaching, now’s the time to make sure your home looks nice and inviting for all those guests. If your living room furniture is showing its age and you’re feeling embarrassed at the thought of visitors seeing the worn out upholstery and garish 1980s pattern, don’t worry. Whilst new furniture may be way out of your budget, inexpensive slipcovers can transform your old sofas and chairs for much less.
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Depending on who you ask, living in a studio apartment can be both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, studio apartments are great for living on your own. A studio offers you privacy and convenience. Everything is in close proximity to everything else. For instance, if you wake up hungry, just roll out of bed and cook up something on the stove that’s 5 feet away. On the other hand, chances are that your bedding is now going to smell like whatever you just made on the stove. It’s a lose lose! While this is purely an exaggeration, there’s no sense harping on how small some studio apartments are. You just have to make use of the space you do have. Here are some simple and economical ways to furnish and decorate your studio. More on Decorating Your Studio Apartment on a Budget
We’ve heard it being said a million times that a stitch in time saves nine and while most of us try to implement it in many areas of our lives, our home sadly is one place where this rule is not followed especially when it comes to maintenance. Most of us are generally unaware about things that are going down the incline in our houses until the day that a final breakdown occurs. We end up taking necessary steps only after a switch has stopped working, a drain is badly clogged or when a tap has broken down. At times like these, we also end up calling professionals or spending more money than we otherwise would have if we had taken required steps at the beginning.
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With discount wood bar stools on sale for under $30 each, it’s possible to get extra seating for a kitchen island or breakfast bar without blowing your budget. If you’re really strapped for cash you may be able to find some even cheaper stools by visiting local yard sales.
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It happens to the best of us when we set up our first homes. Furniture, down payments, shifting and other ‘important’ things drain our finances so much so that we are left with nothing to decorate our new home with. Artwork is generally costly and while nobody likes bare walls much, we are forced to live with them till the time we save some extra dough to buy prints for our walls. However, if you have just shifted into a new house, then you can be sure that you won’t be able to save much till at least six months or more, what with one thing or the other coming up. In such a situation, creating your own art work is the next best option, and if you are a fan of customization and originality, then it is certainly the best option. You can use your imagination to create extremely cheap and affordable art pieces for your home. These pieces will not just be unique and beautiful; they will also not burn a hole in your pocket. Some ideas for creating beautiful artwork yourself are-
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