For those with aspirations of owning a home with a stylish interior, the imagined price tag can be thoroughly off-putting. From carpets and paneled floors to furniture, ornaments and appliances, it’s one thing to kit out your home with all those features you require; it’s another to match them up to your unique desired style. Thankfully, there are plenty of creative and resourceful alternatives to shopping at high-end stores or on online treasure troves of goods – this article will outline some methods of decorating your home that will have you proud of your interiors without breaking the bank.

Tips for stylish & affordable home decor

Shop Second-Hand

 There are some utter bargains to be found in the second-hand furniture market for those with the money to find such offers. The best place to turn for a prospective search is the internet, with sites such as Gumtree and Craigslist famous for offering goods at magnificently cheap prices. There’s also swapping sites if you’re looking to change the style of a couch or a bed, and ‘freecycle’ sites on which people place household goods that they’re desperate to shift.

 

Keeping an eye on these websites – perhaps bookmarked so they’re easy to load and scroll through – is a great place to start when shopping second-hand. Aside from the online realm, though, you’ll also likely live close to a second-hand furniture warehouse which will be well worth your while visiting, while jumble sales can turn up some rare wonders if you’re proactive in searching for one-off or regular second-hand fairs that you can find unexpected gems that are exactly to your taste and style.

Buy on Finance

If you’d really rather prefer to get everything first-hand, yet you’re unable to front the cash right away, you’ll find that plenty of the more expensive household items are accessible. Utilities and large items of furniture, for example, are sold on finance, meaning you’ll be able to pay for them in installments that match your weekly or monthly income. See these items as an investment, especially if you’re purchasing a fridge or a washing machine that you’d rather not run the risk of buying second-hand.

While installment-paid items are a godsend for those living close to an overdraft yet seeking a comfortable, well-equipped and stylish home, it’s important not to overtake yourself with too many payments – after all, your wage slip might not always stretch to paying off a series of extravagant purchases. If you do ever need a little extra cash to get you over the line without any penalties, check out this blog where pay-day lenders are scrutinized, revealing the advantages and disadvantages of certain lenders.

 

Be Resourceful

If you’re on an extremely tight budget, you’re not necessarily priced out of creating the sort of home decor that will exude style and grace. You’ll simply have to be resourceful in finding ways to save money on all those items that’ll contribute to such an interior. Start out by taking stock of what it is you feel is missing from your home: is it a new carpet, an armchair or a dinner table? Then, find design blueprints or YouTube tutorials that’ll detail what materials and tools you might need to make your own, and head out to the hardware store to begin your project.

If you’re not all that confident with ambitious DIY, you might still achieve an impressive home interior with apparently useless items. A wooden palette can be used as a bookshelf on a wall or, with a pane of glass over it, a suitable coffee table in the shabby chic style. With a spruce of paint and some soft cushions, some rickety and disused outdoor furniture can become chairs around a table. Wine boxes can make a good set of draws, and an elevated metal pole is enough to make an exposed wardrobe. Have a good look online at the building projects and creative ideas that other resourceful individuals have come up with to get a little inspiration.

 

Use Social Media

If you’ve got a few hundred friends on social media, it can never hurt to write some prospective posts enquiring whether your friends or followers have any items that they’re looking to shift from their home. Getting rid of larger objects can be a pain for friends, who’d rather drop off their replaced couch at your home, while anyone who’s also thinking about a little home redesign, requiring new furniture, will have you not on the top of their mental list for someone to offload their old items to. It can’t hurt to get the message out.

As well as advertising for things from your profile, why not search for groups and pages specific to your region that specialize in the merry-go-round of household items – whether that be cans of paint, spare strips of carpet, or decorative lights –  that is part and parcel of home redesigns. Plenty of people inherit furnished abodes that are not to their taste but may well be to yours, so will be looking to swap or remove items you see as stylish, either on the cheap or for free.

 

DIY Solutions

If you’re a bit of a dab hand at all things practical, you can, of course, make your own furniture as mentioned above. But for those with slightly less confidence yet still possessing of an ability to make some general efforts towards DIY solutions, never underestimate your own skills, or your ability to learn, when considering new features for your home. Borrow tools from relatives or friends and get to work to save heaps of money that you’d otherwise spend on tradesmen.

You’re able to think conceptually about aspirations to change your home interior: you might plan to do anything from rewiring to enable a new set of lights in your kitchen, to ripping out your existing bath or shower to replace it with a brand new set of bathroom features that complement your style. Don’t be afraid to delve into the internet, or the knowledge and experience of friends and family, when you feel a little overawed by the project you’re undertaking.

As these tips show, home improvement needn’t cost you an arm and a leg – it’s about being resourceful and getting the right price for each and every step you take towards your desired style.

 

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