Are you keen to change the decoration of your interior, but don’t want to spend a lot of money on it? Discover all the tips from our decorators to decorate your home with taste and at a low price!
How to decorate your house with taste and at a low price?
The main question for the majority during a development or renovation project, or quite simply for a desire to change the decoration, is: how to decorate your house? Very often, there is a real desire to feel at home with a warm atmosphere and tasteful decoration. But of course, it’s even better if the little decoration tips are at a low price!
Discover below our best tips for decorating your home with taste and at a low price.
But before taking advantage of our decorators’ advice on how to decorate your home, we invite you to take our quick quiz to find out which interior style suits you.
Tip 1: Lay the foundations for floor decoration
The ground must be invested in such a way as to bring added value to your interior. It is your floor that will set the tone of the room and bring renewal to it.
Lay soft ground
Dressing up your old tiling with a flexible lino floor, or with LVT slats, allows you to change the atmosphere. Indeed, placing a flexible imitation parquet flooring is simple and effective and much less expensive than placing real parquet or breaking a tile.
This solution allows you, moreover, to avoid starting an expensive and energy-consuming project. This trick will directly change the visual appearance and bring harmony to your room.
How to decorate your house using carpets?
Set the tone for the room
This step is the most important to play on the harmony of your room. You must first choose the shape of your carpet. The location of your furniture, their shapes and sizes will help you with this. So, for a rectangular coffee table, prefer one that is too.
In addition, the size of the latter is also a very important point. It will allow you to play on the atmosphere of your room and will also allow you to enlarge it. For example, choose a rug that will be wider than your bed or your sofa to bring a designer touch and a chic style to your living room or bedroom.
To delimit spaces
This trick will allow you to mark the location of a room in relation to another and will therefore allow you to delimit them. This will accentuate the function of the rooms and can even allow you to make a different decoration between them. For example, you can create a contemporary decoration in the living room area and a more industrial one in the dining area.
To warm the atmosphere
You can bet on a strong carpet color for an interior that has light colors on the floor and walls. This trick will allow you to warm up the room and completely change its appearance.
You can also play with the materials to give your room a particular style. For example, faux fur effect or linen rugs give a very modern look.
Tip 2: wall decoration
No place should be left behind. Thus, it is very important to concentrate a beautiful part of its decoration on the walls! Indeed, the walls and their decoration bring an atmosphere to your interior. It’s the first thing that jumps out at us when we walk into a room.
Change the general atmosphere of your walls
Changing the general appearance of your walls will bring a whole new atmosphere to your home. A color or a simple pattern can radically change your interior.
The painting
You can choose to completely review the atmosphere of your interior by betting on a strong wall color, this trick is particularly interesting if you have a light-colored floor, because it will warm up the room.
The little trick for a more economical version is to bring a simple touch of color to a section of the wall, in addition to being cheaper, this trick allows you to bring depth to your room. For example, you can paint the wall behind your headboard or behind your sofa to bring out the furniture.
Install a wallpaper lay
This trick is perfect for bringing a special decoration to your home. You can even put a panoramic wallpaper that encompasses an entire part of the wall.
The advantage of wallpaper is that it offers a different atmosphere, patterns or colors which, if used sparingly, will not overload your interior, quite the contrary.
In addition, this tip can be applied to any room: kitchen, bedroom or living room.
The last little wall touches
It is very important to bring touches of wall decoration to your interior! In addition to being visually pleasing, this can allow you to store decorative or everyday objects.
Shelves
The shelves can be placed in any room of your interior. Practical and aesthetic, they will allow you to store your objects while supporting the decoration of your home. Thus, they can be very relevant in your bedroom decoration or your kitchen.
You can put your decorative accessories there such as candles, utensils or photo frames.
Canvases and paintings
Real advantage to enrich your interior, the canvases and tables allow to give the chosen axis of decoration. Indeed, depending on your choice of paintings, you can give a style to your home.
So bet on bright colors and geometric or floral patterns for a vintage interior and blue and white hues and rope for a seaside interior. Reaction from your guests guaranteed!
They also have the advantage of warming and bringing vitality to your room.
Tip 3: Furniture
The furniture chosen for your different rooms will have a big impact on the perception of your interior! Indeed, the furniture, often substantial, will be the first thing your guests will see. It is therefore very important to choose the right furniture and arrange it well.
Repaint old furniture
This trick is economical and can give charm to your interior by rejuvenating your furniture. You can also play the made-to-measure card and dress up your old furniture with floors or cupboards. heck for more
If you still want to change your furniture and you have a small budget, the Maison du monde marketplace offers you a wide choice of furniture at low prices. Or, you can go around the flea markets to try to find your happiness!
Change the arrangement of furniture
Another simple and economical trick, the reorganization of your home. A simple rearrangement of your interior will cost you nothing and will completely change its appearance.
Our advices :
- You can change the layout of your bed or sofa.
- Change your place frames, for example put those of the living room in your bedroom.
- Place your cofee table in front of your windows to take advantage of natural light.
- You can direct your armchairs towards your bay window to enjoy the outdoors and create a reading corner.
- Change your bookcase or wardrobe
Tip 4: How to decorate your house with accessories?
The choice of accessories and their arrangement will be very important to bring character to your different rooms. It is essential to mix several elements to bring warmth and life to your interior.
The textiles
The textile to dress your interior can bring real added value to your project. It will help to warm up the tone of your room and transform it into a welcoming and warm place.
You can therefore superimpose elements, mix colors and materials, in short, have fun and be inventive. Thus, it is important to change the curtains, the cushions, the plaids.
You can also find textile wall decoration elements that will give your home a little pep.
Plants
Plants will also allow you to dress up your interior, they will bring life and color to your home. Indeed, you can position your plants anywhere in your house.
Our advices :
- You can put it on a shelf.
- Hang it on the wall or on a full-length mirror.
- Place it in your library or above a piece of furniture
- Place it on the floor next to the TV cabinet or even on a small decorative stool
Arrange various light sources
Play with light and lighting to accentuate certain parts of your interior. Bet on small accent lamps positioned in strategic places such as the reading corner, the office table, or the bedside table. These small lamps can bring warmth inside and refresh your decoration. You can also have larger lights that will adapt to different decorative styles.
For a more economical version, you can only change your lighting or change only the suspensions, the lampshades or the switches. This trick allows us to bring a new style to our decoration.
Our advices :
- Prefer glass fixtures with touches of gold for a contemporary look.
- For an ethnic side, choose a black metal foot and a rattan lampshade.
Add objects
Multiply objects
A simple way to decorate your home and change the visual appearance of your interior is to concentrate a few objects in the same place and in a layout that will highlight them.
Do not hesitate to add candles, vases, plants, baskets and accompany them with different objects to create a universe in its own right.
A more economical version
You can simply take objects already present in your home and repaint them. This can range from a door frame, to a wooden object or even a frame lathe.
Another way will allow you to reduce your expenses, it is the manufacture, by yourself, of decorative objects such as seats or even handmade suspensions.