Cheap Decorating Tips
When you are young it is nice when you finally have your own place. But it can be expensive to furnish your own apartment. My article will tell how to get it done without having to move into a furnished apartment.
First, if you are lucky and you find your decent couch on the street you will need to buy some funky pillows but this can be expensive. Buy some nice funky pillows cases with nice sleep pillows to use instead of expensive throw pillows. Also, shop during August for sales on throw pillows, which are considered dorm room accessories or buy some summer pillow at the end of the year when stores bring in fall and winter darker colored pillows. Always shop the opposite season for the best sales. Anything you can buy off the season. Think of the cool summer dishes you can show for next year barbecue.
Start a unique collection and hung it on the wall. How about unique old pan tins, old fashioned nutcrackers, or some old fashioned dishes that you can get a city’s many garage sales and thrift stores. Check out www.allnyc.com for thrift locations to look for funky dishes, painting and other household items.
If you love to read how about putting your favorite book quotes or poems in a frame. Decorate your apartment with your art or photographs instead of expensive art.
Also, if you want to get painting from artists that are just getting starting out visit Hoboken, NJ art festival that is held twice a year.
At the end of the January look at reduced 2007 art calendars for great art pictures.
Use the barter system on www.craigslist.org to barter for art for your apartment. If you can teach knitting then maybe can teach how to paint or sew.
For your table coasters use pretty plastic patterned plastic placemats for coasters. You just cut the coaters in circular or square patterns. Also, to display on your table a coffee table book with your favorite postcards or magazine ads displayed in a photo book. .
How about decorating your music area with old album covers that would take up less space then big posters.
If you buy a bunch of small mirrors you can display them in a circuar pattern. You make a mirror look like a window if you hung curtains in front of the mirror.
How about seashells,unique rocks, plastic tiny colored balls, marbles or colored sand be put in baskets or vases to decorate your bathroom.
Also, find out if your friends have any leftover paint or wallpaper. You can frame many types of wallpaper in frames on the wall or hang one pretty sheet on the wall. You can use stencils with the paint and stencil pretty decorations on your side table. Sponges are great to decorate the borders of your wall with leftover paint.
The best thing about decorating slowly and not having your apartment filled with furniture sets is each will room will slowly unravel and represent you like chapters in a book. People will be surprised and never know what to expect each time you they come over.
