Tips And Hacks

Affordable Home Decor To Save You Money

Published

5 years ago

September 1, 2019

Janine

If you have a home you need to furnish for the first time or redecorate outright, the potential financial burden can prove to be incredibly overwhelming. Buying everything new is particularly expensive. If you’re willing to look around a bit and potentially even buy used however, you can easily save yourself quite a bit of money in the long run.

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Resourcefulness and veering from the “beaten path” is really all it takes to find the best deals possible when it comes to furnishing. Even if you opt for second hand items, you’ll often be surprised at the quality. With that said, always make sure to check out the following resources if you want to find affordable home decor:

Discount Stores

First of all, if you want to save a ton of money while still having first dibs at a brand new item, you should always peruse off-price discount stores. Common examples include Marshals, TJ Maxx, Big Lots, and Ross Dress For Less. These retailers buy the unsold stock from other suppliers for a largely discounted rate and pass the savings onto the consumer.

You can often find chairs, pillows, wall-art, planters, cushions, bedding, rugs, and even desks for as much as half-off the original price through these stores.

Local Online Listings

You should also check local online listings through services such as Craigslist or even Facebook groups. People that simply need to get rid of their old or unused decor are often willing to do so for incredibly low prices.

As long as you’re up for meeting people in person, you can land quite a lot of incredible deals this way. You may even find items that are essentially like-new, only being sold due to circumstance.

Swap Meets & Yard Sales

The same goes for swap meets and yard sales as well. While some may scoff at the idea of buying used, there are a wide variety of perfectly reasonable situations that lead to high quality furnishing and decor being sold at yard sales or swap meets.

Even items that are relatively worn-in can be cleaned up and made like-new again with a bit of elbow grease. Best of all, you can often work out even lower deals than advertised through a bit of friendly haggling. There’s no denying that this is perhaps the thriftiest possible way to furnish a living space.

Of course, those are only three of many options you have when it comes to finding affordable home decor. You can also peruse hand made items through services such as Etsy and find all kinds of interesting used goods through the likes of eBay.

Sometimes the websites for major retailers will even list old stock for incredibly reduced prices. As long as you keep a watchful eye and piece your decor together here and there rather than feeling pressured to get it all together in one fell swoop, you can finish the entire process with far more money in your pocket than you ever expected.

Tips And Hacks

Is Hiring A Home Decorator Right For You?

Published

5 years ago

September 1, 2019

Janine

While you most likely want your home to be uniquely you, sometimes the best way to accomplish this goal is by enlisting the help of a professional home decorator. These professionals can help you achieve the best look possible and ensure that your home has a great flow while still being uniquely yours.

interior designer

If you’re still on the fence as to whether you need to call a professional, below are just a few reasons that it may be in your best interests to do so.

You may have a general idea of how you want your home to look, but have no clue as to what the current trends are. Decorators know what is hot and trendy in the current market and can help you to pick out styles that are unique to your tastes, but are very popular in the current overall interior design world.

Finding A Focal Point

While many people often know exactly what they want each room in their home to look like, it can often be difficult to make it all “come together” and have a great flow from room to room. This is wheredecorators truly excel. They can provide you with advice on how to create a great flow so that your individual rooms create an amazing home while still being unique on their own.

Can Save Money

Decorating your home can be very expensive if you’re not careful. The cost of hiring an interior designer can easily be offset as they normally know exactly where to go to get great looking stuff while saving you a ton of money.

Also, many decorators have a few tricks up their sleeves when it comes to creating great designs that can easily be made for a fraction of the cost of buying the finished product. This is especially true when it comes to shelving and other similar furnishings.

Can Help You Ready For New Changes

Sure, you may think that the area by your garage is perfect for a washroom but you didn’t think that you would be travelling through it nearly as often as you do. While you may not have considered that fact when you were first decorating your home, a professional decorator may have dealt with hundreds of clients in the past who later realized a similar occurrence.

Thanks to experience with other clients, a home decorator can help you understand how rooms may be used in the future and help you to prepare for that use, and it’s look, right now in the present. This will help you again save money, as well as countless future headaches and expenses.

As you can see e, there are quite a few reasons that hiring a professional may be in your best interests. From overall expense savings to creating an amazing flow throughout your entire home, it is certainly in your best interests to at least consult with a professional.

Many of them will offer you a free or very low cost, initial consultation. At the very least, you may get a few great ideas that you may have not otherwise considered.