We often watch beautiful interior décor of our friends and neighbours and say, “What a beauty! How you made it?” If you want to change your home this way, it’s possible. For that, you need a beautician’s mind and spirit. If you have a creative mind it’s possible to identify defects of your interior and cover it giving a beauty touch. If you have a little time and money to spend, it won’t resemble the sets of a ghost home. Let me give you such simple 50 tips to renovate your interior in an artistic way.
Let us start with Veranda
If your veranda holds warmth, it will invite your guests’ mind to visit your home regularly. So, you should keep this thing in mind while decorating your veranda.
1. It’s often seen in many homes, oily walls and pillows. Just make a wooden decoration on wall that can be polished and replaced back. If so, it gives a classic elegant look to your home also. Guests’ oily hair won’t destroy the paint and beauty of walls.
2. Decorate a wooden strip of jute and place on pillars. You can use decorate stitches, beads, sequences, glass beads etc to make it more beautiful. If you stitch small pockets here and there, it can be used as a letter box also. Cable bills, electricity bills can also be stored in this pouch.
3. Place a small stool on the veranda to wear shoes. It can be concreted also. Beneath it, shoes can be placed in racks or drawers.
4. Using cheap wood, it’s possible to make a low-cost veranda, if you don’t have one. You can use old lamps and decorative bells to give an antique look to your veranda.
5. In many homes, old chairs used by grand fathers are there. Dumping area is the space of such furniture. Instead, polish them again and stitch new cloth. You can add embroidery hand works, sequences and saturn or net frills to add beauty and place them in veranda. Use some bright colours to give it a new look and thus make it more attractive.
6. If your veranda is lengthy you can hang a bamboo swing. During designing phase itself, add hooks in the concrete so that you can make use of them for hanging swings later. If not, drill slabs to hang a swing instead of placing one with stands, as it takes a lot of space.
7. If it’s a lengthy veranda, old black and white photos are best for decorating walls. Photo of son taken at 6 months or 10 months, wedding photo, photo of grand father in military uniform, old family photos etc can give a special touch to your veranda. If those old photos are damaged, make fresh copies and use new frames before hanging again.
Living room
‘Minimalism’ is the latest trend of living room. Using minimum things we can make room spacious and beautiful. For that, expensive decorative crystals can be used.
8. Old homes are filled with toys in showcases, full of dust. First thing to do is to remove those old items densely filled and destroy those shelves. If frame is old, remove it and add a new wooden or metallic frame. You can varnish wooden frames as well.
Place mirror inside and use glass slabs. Then buy some curios and place inside. You can add a mural painting also, instead of curios.
9. Is your living room sleeping like an old man? Within a day, we can give him a young look. Add stripes to anyone of the walls with some attractive colours like pink, orange, violet, lavender or fluorescent green. Horizontal lines are drawn in uniform thickness using a single colour. You can use lines of 4 inches up to 12 inches, but all should have same thickness.
10. In some homes, cement inbuilt chairs are seen, that are very rough to sit. To make them more comfortable, construct such spaces with more width, also with slanting back to give less stress to your back bone. You can place some attractive cushions as well, with attractive covers.
11. Are you feeling sad that your living room is not spacious? There are a few techniques to make your room feel more spacious. Buy a lamp with thin and lengthy legs and place it in a corner. Decorative plants used should also be thin. It makes your living room appear more spacious.
12. A big fish tank with some sharks or big fishes appears as if scaring the guests. Instead buy some small round fish bowls with small fishes. Place them here and there to get a good impression. You can add some fancy flowers as well.
13. Big furniture with a lot of decorations is not fit for a small living room. It makes your room more congested. Instead go for some bamboo type or metallic furniture. Their legs should be thin so that it takes only less space. Also your living room appears big.
Dining room
If the dining table suits the dining room, half job is done. If it’s a rectangular room, use a dining table of same shape. If it’s square in shape, a round table suits most.
14. Dining tables full of wood – it has become old fashioned now as it covers 3/4th of whole room. Now it’s the time of glass tops. It’s less expensive as well as gives more spacious look. It gives good sunlight and air circulation to the room.
15. If you are using plastic table and chairs for dining, it can be given a beauty touch. Buy some ready made cushions and stitch to chairs. Cushion covers should be made of contrast colours to give more attraction. Use a matching table cover with check designs. Use a plain plastic sheet on the top to avoid dirt and dust.
16. You can place decorative items in the dining hall. The centre of those items in the wall should be in the same level with guest’s eyes to give it an attractive look. Use big pictures and decorative items for big walls, while use small ones if your room is too small.
17. If the plastic cover of your round table slips down always, what can be done? Stitch a few pockets around its edges and fill them with marble pieces. Your problem is solved.
18. To get a fresh look to your light shaded dining room, use towels of some attractive colours near washing area. Parrot green, pink, bright lemon yellow, lavender etc.
19. Cleaning the dining room after feeding a kid is really time consuming. Better buy a high chair. Your kid will love to sit inside it and you can keep your room tidy as well.
20. If master of home is late, he feels irritated seeing serving plates in the dining table. Instead arrange a small table or counter in kitchen itself. You can use it for having breakfast also.
21. If you have a lot of guests frequently visiting your home, it’s better to construct a slab in any wall. You can give wooden frames at edges and use colourful cushions inside.
22. Are you feeling uncomfortable with your living room cum dining room? If so separate them with a wall. That wall need not touch the ceiling, just a partition needed. Then place your sofa near new wall. You can add one or two nish on that plane wall to make it attractive. You can also use jharoka windows of Rajasthan.
Bedroom
Comfort – it’s the first thing that comes to our mind while designing a bed room, along with enough sunlight and air circulation. Sleeping in such a room will increase the health, peace and beauty for sure. So, while designing stage itself you should decide where to place bed. Give cross ventilation according to it. If so, dragging bed here and there for suitable place later can be avoided.
23. Are you feeling that woolen clothes and blankets are robbing your space inside wardrobe? If so, fold them nicely and put them in a pillow cover. A good pillow is ready. Also it saves a lot of space inside your wardrobe.
24. While constructing bedrooms for senior persons, find space for a veranda along with it. If family living room is in the upstairs, provide a TV in their room as well.
25. Stitch frills to your old saris and spread them over bed. Decorative bed spreads are ready that can be spread over beds during day time.
26. Place some pleasant scenery photos or photos of family members in your walls. You can place some nice paintings as well. Select calm pictures and light colours to give a pleasant look.
27. It’s better to place bed at the centre of the room with head side contacting a wall. Place a small table just near to it to place small things. You can place a small photo frame also.
28. Choose light colours for your dream. Yet you can make it attractive by painting a wall with an attractive colour. But make sure, while you wake up, it should never appear before your eyes. Light colours are always pleasant.
Kid’s studying area
Now it’s a common trend to provide a separate area for kids to play and study.
29. If it’s dim in colour make it attractive by using some bright colours. You can even draw some attractive cartoon pictures as well, or use some stickers.
30. All accessories used in the room should look childish. So remove old furniture from the room, that’s not at all needed for a kid’s room. Instead place some simple ones.
31. You can buy a colourful studying table and a few chairs instead of those old wooden chairs. Just remember, kids are always attracted towards bright colours.
32. Also, place a few soft toys in their room, throwing away old ones. It’s sure, he will love to study in that room and spend more time there.
Kitchen
There are some housewives who go to the site on stone foundation day and later for house warming ceremony. If you belong to that category, you won’t even get sufficient time to complaint about your kitchen. So, it’s better to check everything from planning stage itself.
33. If your cooking counter is enough spacious, allocate a small area for study purposes of your kids. Use two stools of good height and slim legs to teach your kids while you are busy with your kitchen work. Kitchen cabinet above this space can be used for storing his accessories.
34. Place a cotton mate beneath your sink so that it will absorb the moisture and help you from slipping.
35. Everyone dream for a kitchen shown in cookery shows, with bright colours. But bright colours give strain to your eyes. Light colours like cream or white are best than orange, green and dark blue. But you can paint a single wall with bright colour if you feel so. Using colourful containers can give an attractive look to your kitchen.
36. Granite floor is best for kitchen. Marble absorbs stains. You can also experiment with ceramic tiles.
37. If your kitchen is not provided with a work area, fit a sink and counter outside so that you can clean fish and meat there. It protects your kitchen from bad smell.
38. Never place equipments in cabinet when they are moist. It reduces its life span as well as gives a bad smell. You can place a plastic or stainless steel base near your sink to put your washed utensils. When they are dried well, place them inside cabinets.
39. Old homes won’t have sufficient space to arrange a breakfast counter. If so place a long desk along with some stools. Your breakfast counter is ready.
40. Normal pipes are not necessary for cleaning counter tops and spaces near sink. Instead you can use health foset or tube shower. It helps to clean corners well.
41. Concealed kitchen is the real beauty and latest trend. So, build cabinets for placing mixer, ovens etc during construction time itself. Such equipments budged outside kills the beauty of your kitchen.
42. If you have sufficient space near sink in your kitchen, provide a small area for cleaning kitchen towels. Place a small stone and provide a small slope towards outside where house wife can clean kitchen towels. Height should be adjusted to that of house wife, to avoid bending and thus back pain.
Bath room
Forget that dirty and dark bathroom. New bathrooms are spacious and filled with light and air. From decorations to FM radio – everything can be placed within bathrooms.
43. Are you feeling that your bathroom shades have faded and has become dirty. If so, paint cabinets with some bright colour. You can paint the door or a wall with some attractive colour. Give a shower curtain in between dry area and wet area. The whole old look of bathroom will appear changed.
44. To make your bathroom appear spacious, there are some measures. Hang a big mirror with the same size on any of the walls to make it more spacious.
45. Throw that small ventilator away. Instead use frosted glass to construct big windows. Nothing is visible outside frosted glass – that’s the peculiarity. Otherwise provide blends with glasses to shut and open.
46. It’s not an easy task to replace old tiles with new. It’s better to stick some stickers in alternate tiles to give an attractive look to your bathroom.
47. If you are using a slide loading washing machine, elevate a little using a stand.
48. If you feel storage area is not sufficient within your bathroom, I am providing you a simple method. If you have your old TV stand with wheels, paint it and add a few more drawers and place inside your bathroom.
49. If you are designing a new home, use half-glass designer doors to allow maximum sunlight inside your bathroom. Now coloured glasses are also available to give it a distinct and unique look.
50. You can provide a small place using bricks and concrete within bathrooms for cleaning clothes. It should be of height, most convenient for house wife to wash clothes without bending. If you need to wash just one or two clothes, it can save electricity consumption of washing machine.
So, through this article I have given a few tips for changing your home to a wonderland. I am sure, next time, when your friends visit your home they will say, “What a beauty! Excellent”
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