Top 10 Flea Market Items to Look for at Flea Market
Love the flea market make-over look. You can DIY with the right items. Next time you stop at a thrift store or yard sale keep your eye out for a few of these flea market treasures.
1. Old Wooden Ladders make great book shelves and storage and even picture hangers.
2. Glass Jars/Bottles colorful bottles brighten up shelves and adds pops of color.
3. Old Metal Containers like milk containers, baskets, watering cans and buckets make great flower pots.
4. Old Mantels can add interest and be a perfect place to display some of your collections and can create a great focal point for a small room.
5. Vintage toolboxes, bird cages, make great accent pieces.
6. Old Windows
7. Old Doors
8. Wooden Crates
9. Picture Frames
10. Vintage Signs
1. Old Wooden Ladders make great book shelves and storage and even picture hangers.
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2. Glass Jars/Bottles colorful bottles brighten up shelves and adds pops of color.
3. Old Metal Containers like milk containers, baskets, watering cans and buckets make great flower pots.
4. Old Mantels can add interest and be a perfect place to display some of your collections and can create a great focal point for a small room.
5. Vintage toolboxes, bird cages, make great accent pieces.
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6. Old Windows
7. Old Doors
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8. Wooden Crates
9. Picture Frames
10. Vintage Signs
Change a Room in 3 Easy Steps
Changing the look of a room on a budget can be easy peasy if you know tricks of the trade. My favorites are wall decor/accessories, paint, and floor coverings.
Paint will almost always give you more bang for the buck. It is a cheap and easy decor fix. Another is wall decor, a nice big painting or piece of wall decor also has the ability to change the way a room looks with minimal cost and effort. Last but not least is floor coverings such as a colorful rug.
Mix match and coordinate all three and voila...design on a dime.
Paint will almost always give you more bang for the buck. It is a cheap and easy decor fix. Another is wall decor, a nice big painting or piece of wall decor also has the ability to change the way a room looks with minimal cost and effort. Last but not least is floor coverings such as a colorful rug.
Mix match and coordinate all three and voila...design on a dime.
Making a Small Room Feel Larger
If you live in a small apartment or home and you want to create a feeling of a bigger room there are several things you can do.One thing thing you can do is create focal points another is take advantage of reflecting.Either of these will create an illusion of a bigger room.
Creating a focal point in a small room is key when you don’t want people noticing how small the room really is. When you have a specific focus point the room might be more interesting and seem a little bit bigger.
You can do this by painting one wall in the room a different or darker color giving your room a gallery effect you can also add a low hanging light fixture and assembling artwork on the wall. This has an opening effect on the room.
When you use reflecting to make a room bigger, you will use things in your home that reflect such a mirrors, furniture, metallic pieces, and things that have a shimmer. When these kinds of items are strategically placed throughout the home or the room they give a feeling of light and more space, which makes the room appear much larger than it is.
If you are trying to take the focus from the small size of a room and make it look bigger then you can take advantage of the use of reflections and creating focal points. Mastering the use of these two techniques can make your home look much bigger.
Steps to Decorating on a Budget
When you are decorating on a budget you need to focus on one room at a time. It is hard to complete the entire home at once so your best option is to decorate each room separately. You can prioritize which rooms you would like to focus on first and begin with them.
Paint will make the biggest change for the least amount of money. It is also the best choice for renters. Before you make any purchases make sure you choose colors you can live with, just because it looks good on paper or a magazine doesn't always mean it will look good in your home space.
You don’t want to spend a lot of money for major changes to the rooms. You should buy items that will spruce up the room and give you the look and feel you enjoy but that you can take with you when you go. You don’t want to be decorating each room every time you move.
Paint will make the biggest change for the least amount of money. It is also the best choice for renters. Before you make any purchases make sure you choose colors you can live with, just because it looks good on paper or a magazine doesn't always mean it will look good in your home space.
You don’t want to spend a lot of money for major changes to the rooms. You should buy items that will spruce up the room and give you the look and feel you enjoy but that you can take with you when you go. You don’t want to be decorating each room every time you move.
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