Giving your living spaces a whole new look doesn’t have to mean a big-budget renovation that will have you cutting and hanging wallpaper into the early hours of the night. Use these five simple accessories to give your living spaces a whole new look.
Change Your Fashion with Fabrics
One simple and low-cost way to add colour, pattern, and texture into living spaces without dusting off the ladder and paint pots is with soft furnishings. You can breathe new life into your sofa with the addition of some decorative cushions, and use throws to bring bold colour statements into the space. These are also useful additions, making your seating more comfortable and giving you something to wrap up with in winter.
Lighting with Style and Sophistication
How you light a room has a huge influence over its ambience. You can bring style and sophistication at every hour of the day by using your lighting fixtures as design features and upscaling something as simple as a lampshade. That Rebel House has a range of beautiful, pleated silk lampshades, gathered lampshades, and stylish Ikat lampshades in the UK that can be used to add a theme to a room, or accent existing style touches in your living spaces. Ikat pleated lampshades in particular have intricate and decorative designs that can add a huge amount of character to a living room.
Plant Some Style into Your Space
For more colour, texture, and a touch of nature, use flowering plants, succulents, and even climbing indoor vines. This is an incredibly cost-effective way to change your decor. Monstera deliciosa, better known as the Swiss cheese plant, is a tropical vine that is extremely hardy and grows well indoors in most parts of the world. It doesn’t need too much attention either, and some varieties can grow quickly and climb up walls, across mantlepieces, or bookcases. If you do not have green fingers, go for artificial greenery that just needs a little cleaning once in a while to keep looking its best.
Art from the Heart
Using big pictures, collages, and personal photographs can be a simple and heartwarming way to bring colour, design, or ambience to a living space. Using art prints, you can upscale the atmosphere in a room with some high art reproductions or create a light-hearted atmosphere with comical art or posters of movies or musicians. Creating a collage of framed pictures of you, your family, and memorable events or family in-jokes is the perfect solution to making a living space more personal and more decorative.
Flawless Flooring
Sometimes, all you need is rugs. Whether you have a hardwood, carpeted, or laminate floor, adding a rug or two can help break up a space with patterns and textures, and also colour. There are lots of patterns to choose from too. Whatever your existing style is, there is a rug to match. Minimalistic styles can use monochrome rugs in solid shades or with basic patterns, while more decadent spaces can use more decorative and intricate patterns like oriental-themed rugs.
For a more complete makeover, put all these accessories together to completely change your decor without having to clean off an old paintbrush or get out the plastering table. From just a small budget, you can get the living room of your dreams if you spend smart.
