Start with the bedroom:
This is where you spend the majority of your time in your home. If you're on a tight burdget, buy as much as you can afford to spend in this area. It makes a huge difference. Paint the bedroom walls to compliment your new bedding and add coordinating window treatments. Choose a light palette of colors and translucent window treatments, which has been proved to make you feel calmer and sleep better at night. Don't forget to buy the bed you've always dreamed about, which should mirror both your personality as well as fit into your space comfortably. If you're having trouble planning the space of your bedroom, or any part of your home, use a room planner to help you create your space.
http://www.planyourroom.com
Don't buy everything all at once:
Live in your home for at least two months before making any type of significant purchase. Think of how you're going to use your house and live in it before spending money to renovate or buy furniture.
Don’t make it match:
Furniture stores love to make you think everything has to
match. Don’t do it! Buying a few pieces with the same styles are fine, but any
more than that and your home will begin to look like a furniture showroom
rather than your home. Make your style show through the furniture. Not ready to
take it there yet? Choose decorative accents, rugs, lamps, and artwork that
reflect you and your personal style. Be sure to proportion, scale, and balance
your furniture and accessories in each room. Think of odd numbers when picking
out accents. It’s more visual appealing to the eye.
Tie everything together with color:
If you've moved into your first place with furniture that spans the
1960s to now, don't worry. The easiest, most economical way to overcome this
seemingly insurmountable problem is unifying through color. Let's say you have
a sofa that has only one thing in common with the furniture in the rest of your
living room: a tiny bit of the color in the fabric is the same as the less
dominant color in the rest of the room's upholstery. Solution? Play up that similarity and make it
your living room's unifying wall color. If that's too much hard labor for you,
find curtains, rugs or accessories in this common hue and see how the pieces
begin to complement each other.
Solve your problems inexpensively:
If you don’t quite have the budget for an
entire kitchen remodel, choose the
inexpensive approach and freshen them up with paint, and change out the
hardware for something more modern. In the bathroom, something as simple as
changing the lighting can make an improvement to the appearance of the room
immediately.
If you don't have a creative eye and aren't quite sure where to start, look into hiring an Interior Designer to help you!
Here's a start: http://www.houzz.com/professionals/interior-designer/san-diego
Happy Decorating!!
Your Local Realtor,
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