Mix and Match Your Decorations
Every woman enjoys decorating her home. Favorite colors change from year to year and decorations go out of style. While we don’t want to break the bank dressing up our homes, we do want to keep it looking up to date. You can do it on the cheap if you’re watching pennies, which most of us are doing these days. Thrift stores are the first places to start. You can always find some beautiful deals there. Yard sales can also have good bargains. Your old furniture can be brought up to date with varnish or paint. Using a little paint, fabric and lots of elbow grease we can beautify our homes on a budget.
The dining room is the most important place in the house. It’s where family comes together evenings and where friends guests gather to create special memories. A round dining table works well, as large or small as your room allows. It’s less formal and guests and family meet on a common footing. No one feels left out of the conversation. A sisal rug goes well with the informality of the room. The dining room can be expensive to decorate but you can still have a stunning room on a budget.
Cover of Favorite Colors
To create a beautiful warm dining room, there are many colors to choose from but these are some favorites you might like. A muted green is popular for walls, with golden curtains for the windows. White ceilings will set the green and yellow off. Warm brown for slip covers will be beautiful with a sisal rug for the floor. If you have moldings, a muted neutral paint will look perfect.
Instead of buying new chairs, give your existing ones a face lift with slip covers you can make yourself. Better yet, look in thrift stores for ready made ones. If you don’t find ready made at the thrift store, look for fabric to do them yourself. This will be the best deal in fabric you can find. If you happen to have a pretty bedspread to spare, you can make your dining room slip covers from that. While you’re at the thrift store, look for your curtains.
Buy a large screen or picture for the dining room wall that will be a show stopper. A large picture sets the tone for the space. You will be most likely to find a large screen or framed art at the thrift store. A nice quilt or mirror would also work well. Whatever you choose, be sure it picks up the colors of the room.
Consider bringing in a multipurpose piece such as a dresser or chest to hold napkins, tablecloths and also to serve as a buffet. If it’s a little banged up, strip and sand the piece and either paint or varnish it to look like new. If you decide to paint, you wont necessarily need to strip. Just use a rich paint to paint over the dings.
Other popular colors are creamy beige for walls with muted orange for window curtains and a deep olive green for dinning chair slip covers. A good way to choose colors is by looking at paint strips in the paint section and comparing colors. You can place them side by side and see what colors go well together. You can also go to fabric stores and stack colors together to see how the colors blend in.
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September 26th, 2011 at 7:36 pm
Great tips! Thanks for the idea’s.
September 26th, 2011 at 7:52 pm
Very useful tips Ruby. Appreicate the advice and ideas as well.
September 26th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
Mixing and matching is a great idea Ruby, I have been doing it for sometime now.
September 26th, 2011 at 8:28 pm
Helpful info to decorate my home.
September 26th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Great ideas. You make me want to re-decorate my room.
September 26th, 2011 at 8:32 pm
I make my own slip covers. I save money and get exactly what I want.
September 26th, 2011 at 9:43 pm
Mix & match decorations always be nice idea.
September 26th, 2011 at 10:41 pm
Very good article for decors at home. Cheers!
September 26th, 2011 at 10:56 pm
I love these types of articles you write. Awesome tips here for home decor. I really like the Persian rugs and how they look underneath the table. The muted green I like as well as warm colors.
September 26th, 2011 at 11:33 pm
good ideas for decoration
September 27th, 2011 at 12:15 am
When we had the basemnt painted, my mom got paint strips and it took her months to pick a xolor. She has paint strips for her bedroom and has been choosing colirs since before daddy died a year ago and she was looking a year before that.
Great ideas
September 27th, 2011 at 12:36 am
Very good ideas
September 27th, 2011 at 12:51 am
cool ideas
September 27th, 2011 at 4:06 am
creativity is a nice trait to have here. Got to check your other articles if you have one that tackle bedroom color. I am remodeling our bedroom.
September 27th, 2011 at 4:35 am
Thank you for the great ideas Ruby
September 27th, 2011 at 5:59 am
Some lovely ideas there, Ruby. I shall have to remember them.
September 27th, 2011 at 6:10 am
a very good ideas
September 27th, 2011 at 7:57 am
again a very useful article
September 27th, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Some good tips and advice.
September 27th, 2011 at 11:46 pm
I love how you put it together! Thanks for sharing.
September 28th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
Your usual good post.
September 29th, 2011 at 11:39 am
I love that green and gold.Lovely tips about the large painting.
My drawing cum dining has a blue,grey,white, so colour choice becomes limited.
September 30th, 2011 at 6:12 pm
My daughter has a 10-room house and finds it a joy matching and mixing her effects after which she sleeps soundly.
October 1st, 2011 at 3:32 am
I love to mix and match. Great ideas.
October 3rd, 2011 at 9:44 am
Very good advice and help tips.
October 3rd, 2011 at 10:03 am
thanks again for your useful articles
October 3rd, 2011 at 10:30 am
These are very useful tips. I like the creamy beige walls with orange curtains.
October 4th, 2011 at 8:03 am
motivating
October 8th, 2011 at 8:47 am
Another good one Ruby cheers
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February 19th, 2013 at 4:52 am
Very good article for decors at home