Home Improvement: Top Three bCheap Home Decor/b Designs

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You don't have to get expensive home decor items to make your renovation project look like a million bucks. With the right budget decor, you can get the perfect decor design for any room in the house. Use these simple tips and techniques for saving money during your redecorating. With the addition of one or all of these money saving techniques, you'll be sure to get the best decor design possible, even with a limited budget. One of the all-time best ways to use cheap decor in your room design is by employing the use of mirrors. Mirrors help reflect light to many different angles of the room. Mirrors help to accent areas of the design, make a space feel bigger and brighten dark areas. It's also a great way to get aesthetically pleasing wall art from your design without costing a fortune. Oval mirrors especially look good when they are combined tighter in a mosaic pattern. Best of all, mirrors can also be works of art themselves when combined with a classy frame. Mantle pieces, shelving and tabletops all provide the perfect access for displaying clutches of items. For instance, a bedroom dresser top can be instantly transformed into an eclectic display filled with glass vases, candles or antique books. This unique shabby chic design can transfer to other design options just as easily when you combine like items on display. Charger plates can be a great gathering spot for trinkets and knick knacks, helping you to further create a unique, one of a kind display that cost just pennies, but looks like it came straight out of a magazine. Decor items for the walls are an awesome way to take advantage of cheap but room changing designs. Walls with basic colors are boring and bland. Transforming a room design by changing the paint color is a common tactic for many designers. But plain paint doesn't have to be the only way to add some pizzazz to your decor design. Create a matching paint pattern...

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The DIY Designer: Thrift store lamp makeover

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Considering the lamp’s wiring was cut off, it would obviously need to be rewired, unless it was just going to sit around and look pretty. I bought a basic lamp rewiring kit that you can find at any hardware store.

First, I ripped the black felt off the bottom to be able to run the wire and twisted my wires together to easily guide them through the lamp to the top. I removed all the old hardware from the lamp and added the new hardware that came with the kit. I attached the wires to the screws on either side of the socket, put the socket cover on and snapped it in place. And that’s it! I told you rewiring a lamp was easy! Step-by-step instructions are included with the kit. 

I used a shade I had from an old lamp on my brand-new-to-me alabaster lamp.

And how much does a new alabaster lamp run these days?  Pretty sure it's not $17 or less. But if you find one that cheap, let me know. I would love a matching one.

My lamp’s new home is atop my chest of drawers in the master bedroom .

Source: Nooga.com