Now that the weather is too cold for outdoor activities we have turned our atention to the interior once again. The winter blahs can sometimes be overcome with small changes in your decor. Here are some quick fixes that you can try out today.
1. Room Shuffle: Rearrange the furniture in your rooms, swap out accessories such as lamps, vases, throws and area rugs.
2. Color infusion: Assuming that you have a somewhat neutral palette in your room(s), you can easily change the mood by adding punches of color. The best bang for the buck are throw pillows
and flower arrangements. We usually troll the local stores for pillows and quirky decorative items, but you can sometimes find these items on the internet. Stay local though use your paper's website and/or craiglists.
3. Painting: You knew we were going to mention it eventually. Don't start pulling out all those samples you have in your purse just yet. Sometimes a fresh coat is all that you need or touching up the trim around the windows and base boards.
4. Window treatments: If the room is the woman, then window treatments are the necklace and earrings. There so many options and price points for ready made panels it can be overwhelming.
We suggest spending some time looking through magazines (Elle Decor, Domino and Southern Accents are good examples). Once you see something you like, look in the back of the magazine for the buyers guide and look that fabric or that company up on the web. Our point is do your homework. We looked at many different options for our living (too many)but in the end we found pre-made panels and did all four windows for less than $600.00.
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