Did you ever wake up one morning, look around your bedroom and
want to pull the cover back over your head? Join the club.
Humans are one of the few creatures that frequently rearrange
and re-do their living space. Bedrooms are the most frequent
redecorating candidate. Every so often, for reasons unknown to
many, we look at that cozy nest we carefully created and think
"ugh." It's boring, it's outdated, I'm sick of that color. Grand
visions of a totally gutted and remodeled space may fill your
mind, until you look at your bank balance. Don't be glum!
Redecorating doesn't need to cost an arm and a leg!
The quickest way to a new look is a splash of paint. Even if you
use the same color (because you had paint left over), a fresh
coat of color reinvigorates the room, makes it look cleaner,
newer. If you've grown tired of your wall color, choose a new
one, drape protective cloths over the furniture and get rolling.
The endorphins pumping through your veins after painting the
whole room may just fire up some other decorating ideas for your
bedroom.
One reason a fresh coat of paint reinvents a room is that the
different color gives the space a whole new identity. The same
idea applies to your bedding. If your budget is extremely
limited, you might start by adding new pillow shams. Usually
sold as a separate piece from comforters, sheets, or
pillowcases, a sham is a highly decorative pillow covering. When
making the bed in the morning, you slip your covered pillow into
the sham-remove the sham at night before you go to sleep. If you
find a great deal on pillow shams, buy a bunch-you can fill them
with plain foam pillows and give your bed a luxurious look by
piling them on.
A new comforter or bedspread is another way to redecorate your
bedroom inexpensively. Check local malls for discount linen
stores, or browse the Internet for great deals on beautiful, but
cheap comforters and bed skirts.
A simple way to create a coordinated look without spending a lot
of money is to use bed sheets to make window treatments. Often,
comforters are sold in "bed sets," which contain the comforter,
as well as a fitted sheet, flat sheet and pillowcases. Since you
sheets will usually be covered by the comforter, you can use the
fitted and flat sheets as material to frame bedroom windows. If
you don't sew, use the special "no-sew" fabric glue sold in
craft and fabric stores to hem a nice edge. In a pinch, you can
hold a hem using a hot glue gun.
Decorating or redecorating a bedroom is often a matter of
changing one or two elements. You can have a new look even if
you don't feel up to the task of choosing colors or shopping for
the best bedding deal. Sometimes, all that's needed is to
re-arrange the furniture. And if that simple change leads to
others, good for you!
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