If you’ve recently moved into your a place, especially for a relatively short period of time such as for one year or less, you’ll likely want to decorate the place froogally and with ease. If you’re looking for a way to quickly cover some empty walls and other spaces, and at the same time brighten up everywhere in your home without forking over an arm and a leg, then look no further. We got the right budget ideas for everyone who likes to beautify all their rooms without dishing out all the money in your possession. All of the necessary items for these tips can usually be purchased from discount and dollar stores. Well heck, you could get a handful of the same things such as faux flowers or art-paper but in different colors for a buck or two and you’ll be able to use them in so many different ways. These ideas are especially good for upcoming Spring and Summer seasons. So let’s get to doodling and dangling 15 great decorations around your home.
Cover some walls or doors with simple yet colorful geometrical shapes by using strips of colored masking tape.
Cut little pieces of colored scrap-book or construction paper and stick them to a wall in the shape of a cute animal, such as a bird perched on a branch.
Look through a bunch of imitation flowers at your local supermarket or discount hobby shop and pick out the best to make a great floral pattern on a wall. Hint: use green tape, not blue tape!
Referring back to tip #3, you could really impress your guests and even yourself by making and affixing handmade paper flowers to the wall. Hint again: use green tape.
Print out your favorite photos onto cardstock paper and cut them like a Poloroid© and hang them from a string. Those full of color and scenery will be especially good!
Print out your favorite photos onto cardstock paper and cut them like a Poloroid© and hang them from a string. Those full of color and scenery will be especially good!
Now this one is different and quite colorful! Grab some rolls of streamer party paper and stick different colors of paper vertically from the top of a wall.
Make a collage of various photos and magazine-clippings and trim them with Japanese Washi tapes to give off a framed effect.
Cut a cute shape such as a house or cottage out of foam board or styrofoam and decorate it with letters to make a welcoming ‘home sweet home’ sign.
If you’ve recently been to a wedding reception or other formal party, you’ve probably reserved some nice doilies for yourself. Well, take them and yet some more, and hang them from a wall in alternating pattern.
Use a few craft pipe-cleaners or wire-hangers, bend them into large letters and affix a whole bunch of little fake flowers to make beautiful Spring-like piece of word art.
Stitch together some patches of different fabric to create this double whammy organizer. It’s also art!
Slice up some big circles of colorful craft paper to make great giant confetti and splash them onto some walls to get cool party effect.
Give your shelf a kind of a different “face-lift” by but cutting half-circles of paper and sticking them to edges of your shelves. You’ll imagine that your shelves have big funny teeth.
Run long strips of the soft side of a roll of velcro on a wall. Put the short scratchy strips of velcro on your precious framed photo to easily hang them.