The exterior of your home is what gives out the first impression to your guests and even to you thus freshening it up with a touch of elegance is a must. You can go big by installing wall fountains and a chandelier in your porch but all that is highly costly, a huge difference can also be made by simple and cheap ideas.
Here’s how to Decor Your House’s Exterior on a Budget:
1. Beautify the Front Door
This door is the entrance and the gateway to your home thus it needs to look appealing to create an inviting feeling for your guests and even for passerby’s to be amazed. A fresh coat of paint is a neat and cheap way to dress up this door as it will look completely renewed when all the dirt and cracks are hidden. Colour can also be added to make it attractive thus choose something that matches with your walls and splash it on your door!
Chocolate brown and teal are some popular choices while you can go funky with painting it purple or orange, white is always desirable for a luxurious look, you can always make a colour fit in by adding canvas prints in similar shades on the adjacent wall. Other then colour, make sure the door handle is shiny else replace it with something brand new and in style.
2. Increase the Lighting
Lighting is an excellent way to increase the attraction of your home at night while interesting light fixtures just add to the beauty. Paper lanterns are cheap and can be purchased in multiple colours for a gorgeous effect while you can also arrange them in an array of sizes to increase visual attraction.
Simple ceiling lamps will also look great on the porch and two or three can be arranged in a line. For a spectacular effect string lights can be arranged around the door or thrown over plant pots, even if it’s not Christmas! An ambience can be created by placing LED lights behind plants or any wall canvas pictures that you have put up.
3. Add Greenery
The exterior of your house is the outdoors and there is no doubt that it will look great with some added greenery. If there is a lawn then there is nothing better than trimming grass and watering it for a fresh look while if your small space deprives you of that then there are always plant pots that can be placed. Think about planting shrubs or flowers, you can visit a nursery and purchase some already grown flowers which will be easy to take care of or plants such as cactus can be bought that require low maintenance.
Is your job routine tough or you simply having a busy daily life that your house gets neglected? All of us have two days off from our weak and believe it a not a lot can be accomplished in these two days if you are dedicated enough. Remember to start fresh on a Saturday morning and possibly stock up on supplies from before such as Friday evening and you have a gorgeous work of art completed by Sunday, here’s how:
4. Update the Kitchen’s Backsplash
A kitchen’s backsplash protects your walls and is very noticeable thus updating it is a great project to provide your kitchen with a brand new look. Ceramic tiles can be pasted upon which are available in a wide variety of colours and designs, they will look especially great if you opt for similar personalised canvas prints for the walls.
If you are a fan of pictures then even a mural can be used for the backsplash in the form of tiles. It might be expensive but mosaic backsplashes always looking amazing and instantly catch the eye, you achieve an interesting design using them or simply add colour.
5. Add Some Mouldings
There are various types of mouldings available for the walls, ceilings and floor borders and they can instantly provide a luxurious look to any room. If you want a grand outlook then opt for a stylish moulding with a lot of delicate carvings otherwise simple or light carvings also look posh, they are cheap and easy to install.
If any room has a ceiling fan or any sort of pendant light then a crown moulding can be used around it for attraction while simply installing crown mouldings at the perimeters can widen up the look of any room. Mouldings can also be painted to play up the architectural details in a room and it is a very simple and easy job.
6. Add Unity among Your Decorative Items
Usually decorative items are purchased over a period of time or are a combination of gifts thus they hardly match with each other although each piece may be absolutely gorgeous. Unifying the decor with perhaps matching small canvas prints grouped together on the wall or similar vases can look highly alluring as it creates a monochromatic scheme and provides an accent.
A colour scheme or types of objects or a single type of shape can be used to achieve unity. A great idea is to make all your frames blend in with each other, a feature picture wall can be created this way, keep them the same colour and design while they can differ in shapes for some uniqueness and extra attraction.