31+ Low-budget Ideas to Make Your Home Look More Expensive

Last Updated on January 28, 2022 by Kimberly Crawford

Do you know you can give your home an elegant look with a lean budget? Have you been searching for very creative ideas to beautify your home on a small budget? We have got you covered. We should show your 30 low budget ideas to transform your home.

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1. Hang Art on the Wall

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A simple arts design has a way of brightening up your home look. You can hang your favorite art designs ranging from hand drawn sketches to DIY arts, to right sizes and scales that would fit perfectly on your wall. It is inexpensive, easy to do and exactly what your home needs.

2. Drop Cloth

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Drop cloths are an easy way to give your home that luxurious looks that are seen in magazines. It can be used in dining room, sitting room and even bathrooms. They are both inexpensive and beautiful. This interior scheme would give that extra feel to your home.

3. Paint – Color Matters

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Paint is an integral part of home decoration. It determines how the overall outlook of your home would turn out. Paint color is a hard choice to make but a bold and dramatic paint color is recommended.

4. Pillows – comfort and elegance

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Pillows are a simple way to lighten and accessorize our living space. They serve two purposes; to make comfortable and to beautify. Make sure your throw pillows texture and colors mix softly thereby giving your home the glamorous look for desire.

5. Use String Pearls as Curtain Tie – Backs

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People underestimate the significance of string pearls; little do they know that this adds elegance to the posture of your curtains. String pearls say a lot about your coordination and carefulness. Advance your curtains look with this simple brilliance.

6. Create a Gallery Wall

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If you want a true reflection of yourself to be seen in the form of arts or pictures, you would like a gallery wall. This gallery wall creates a little story of you. It also adds beauty to your home. Go for simple, inexpensive frames.

7. Add Mirrors

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A mirror helps to make a really stylish living space. It can be used in two ways; to make small spaces actually look big and large and also to design your home by making the mirrors into small pieces like a salon.

8. Vintage Bookcase

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If you have a lot of books in your home and you are looking to arrange them properly and nicely you could try this out. The materials for this bookcase are readily available and can be gotten around even from a farm at little or no cost.

9. Coffee Table books

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You know how a coffee table is one of the standouts of your living space. Its design adds to the overall look. To make it stylish, add interesting, fun, motivational and inspiring book to whatever is on your coffee table. Arrange them such that they are neat and inviting.

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10. Simple Slipcover for your Sofa

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Here is a little something for your sofa; if you are in need of a new sofa cover because it’s dirty or worn outs or torn you can have a slipcover that is the same size as your sofa. The caution here is that the color of the slipcover must be the same color as the room.

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11. Hide the Cord

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The homes we see in those magazines don’t usually have wires hanging all over the place; here is a trick to hide the cables behind arts. Make some sort of design around the wire. Another thing you can do is use the color of the wires to your advantage such that it blends perfectly to your room color.

12. DIY Wallpaper

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Wallpapers are a way of giving your home a complete makeover without exactly buying a lot of things. They are inexpensive to do, all you need is a sketch of what is in your mind and you are good to go

13. Housekeeping – A Clean, Uncluttered Home is a Must

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A way of making your home look exceptionally amazing is by consistent cleaning and dusting. Cleaning helps you remove dirt, stains and spots which in turn help you breathe clean air; also it permits ordinary light into your home.

14. Decorate with Glassware

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Add a little spice to the overall look of your home by adding some glass wares.

15. Turns Plate into Wall Art

 

You know this could serve as a form of decoration to beautify your home. Chinese plates in glass cupboards are lovely cities to behold.

16. Accessorize your Home

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You definitely want to accessorize your home with some clocks, vases, table lighters, lamps. These add some fashionable sense to your home.

17. Hardwood over Carpets

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We all know that wall-to-wall use of carpets in your living space can be warm and soft, but cannot be compared to the same elegance hardwood floors have. Hardwood lasts for a long time.

18. Paint the Kitchen Cabinets

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Consider painting your kitchen cabinets. This is a very useful idea to consider when decorating your interiors.

19. Rearrange the furniture

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Since you are on a strict budget you could consider something as simple as rearranging your furniture.

20. Turn a Wine Bottle into a Vase

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Do you know that a wine bottle can be made into a vase? Just remove the wine labels and you are good to go.

21. Tap brass corners into outside corners of the tables

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22. Replacing Legs on an Ikea Couch

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23. DIY Marble Coffee Table from Marble Paper

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24. Wainscoting hack

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25. Air grille makeover

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26. How to Spray Paint Countertops

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27. Vintage closet rods

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28. Adding teak wood to bathroom floor

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29. Painting a Linoleum Floor

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30. Creating bedroom closet doors

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31. Upgrade your light switch cover

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32. Make a basket light

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33. Repurposed Door Mat to Cover an Ugly Return Air Vent

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34. Upgrade window planter box

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35. Update closet door

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36. Paint faux windows on your garage door

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37. Cake stand for sink soaps

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38. DIY Plain To Paneled Door

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