Home Makeover Before and After

The Floors: New floors would be ideal for your home makeovers, but we all can not afford that, buy a wonderful new throw or area rug. Try placing it on a diagonal on the floor to give the room drama.

The Furniture: We all want new furniture for all our home makeovers, although slip covers are a great way to make over your furniture and it will also add life for wear and tear to your furniture. Extra throw pillows with your color theme and maybe even a blanket or a quilt will add a personal and warm touch to your home makeovers. Buy new side tables or cover your old ones with the same fabric you are using for the curtains, buy a couple extra curtains to cover the tables with, it just adds a little more splash of color throughout all your home makeovers.

The Walls: First you must ask a professional or ask the pros at your hardware store before you start using primer, paint or stains for any of your home makeovers. Find out all you need to know before you begin. Always use a primer before you paint. It's worth the extra effort, your wall color will last longer, you will get the true paint color, besides it just looks better. Try something new for your home makeovers, plaster one wall as an accent, it will give that old world look, or you can make it look like marble. Today you can buy plaster in every color or it can even be custom made to match your colors. It takes about the same time as painting, there are just extra steps to follow and it's worth the extra effort. Use a professional to paint your room, if extra money is in the budget for your home makeovers.

The Windows: You can buy such wonderful curtains, try roman shades or scarfs to give an elegant look. Just go with your style and color.

Room accents: Today the skies the limit on accents, remember simple is best. Vases, bowls, stackable boxes, trays, candles just to name a few. Just stay with your colors and style and don't go overboard.

Lighting accents: Lighting is an essential part of your home makeovers. You have so many choices too. Just think, if you makeover your whole home and leave your old outdated fixtures up what it would look like, if you add new fixtures how much brighter and more beautiful it would look. A couple of new table lamps, a floor lamp or whatever your style is, it just looks grand when you have new lighting to your home makeovers.

Who doesn't want a well-painted and nice-looking home? We all love an excellent home makeover. However, not everyone can afford to pay an interior designer just to provide their homes a much-needed facelift.

Fortunately, we have put a list of 5 extremely easy ways to help you update and beautify your home on your own:

Change Wall Colors

One of the easiest and inexpensive ways of giving your house an obvious update is to change the color of your wall. Simply replace the color of the old wall with a completely new or fresh one. If you're used to seeing your walls in pure white, go adventurous and try something like a jade color or midnight blue. If your room is currently painted in a loud color, switch it up with a more soothing and subtle color.

Before anything, always make sure to try the color first to see if it really suits your taste. Paint on a smaller portion before starting to paint the entire wall.

Rearrange Furniture

Are you tired of seeing your furniture in the exact same location all year? If you're bored with what you see around you, simply redecorate without having to purchase new furniture. Use your old furniture and don't hesitate to distress the status quo.

You could place the couch from one area of the wall and move it to the middle of the room. You can also relocate the arm chairs, that have been there in your living room for years, into your bedroom. You will be very surprised to see how your house will appear differently after making a few slight changes and rearrangements.