5 Must-Follow Tips to Decor Your First Home

Shifting to your first new apartment or home is a freeing and exciting moment in your life. After you have gotten the freedom from the college futon and the tiredness of room sharing with the hostel roommate, you must design a strategy for changing your new house from an uninviting shell into a comfortable dwelling. Here are a few ideas to help you get it done:

Cleanliness is the key.

It’s time to get the old and untidy house set up to make it your dream home. When decorating a new home, take this step well before you put in an original bid.

We assure you that by taking this essential step, you will be a step ahead of the game when it comes to moving into your new home.

Whether you have shaky furniture in the loft or broken electronics in the basement, it’s time to get ripped items repaired, replaced, or sold.

Starting from zero, clean your home from floor to floor or room to room. Reduce the number of things you own to a manageable number.

If something is no longer needed, either sell it at a yard sale or put it up for auction on eBay. You’ll be surprised at how these useful items turn into use in no time.

Let’s begin with the bedroom.

The bedroom is the favorite place of everyone, where one spends one-third of the day sleeping, resting, or just sitting around. Bedroom decor starts from comfortable bedding.

Make sure to choose high-quality bedding that not only makes a huge impact on the bedroom aesthetic but also keeps you snug and cozy all night long.

If the walls are looking dirty, consider repainting them with a light shade color to make them feel open and larger than it actually is.

If it is already large, then you can choose a darker color palette or only make one accent wall. Also, pay close attention to window dressings.

There is a vast range of curtains to pick from. Buy the luxury velvet curtains to give your bedroom an elevated finish.

Your entire bedroom makeover should mirror your personality, keeping everything in place that stays with you for years to come.

Take your time and don’t buy everything at the same time.

Before making brand new bulk purchases for furniture or other homemaking items, spend at least two months adjusting to your new home. The way you picture using your home and the way you truly use it sometimes clash badly.

For example, it is possible that upgrading the kitchen and dining space for optimum entertaining is more necessary than spending $5,000 on a bathroom renovation.

Your main bedroom couch may work much better in the lounge, while the sitting room settee may be more suited for the bedroom. So, before spending money on expensive things, it is friendly advice to you that do not rush.

Use colors to tie everything together.

Using Colors is a great way to bind all of the different elements in the interior together. No worries if you’ve just stepped into your first home and have furnishings from the mid-1950s to the present.

This apparently impossible difficulty can be solved by unifying everything through color.

Assume your sofa and the rest of the living room furnishings are of completely different colors, with the exception of the tiniest piece of fabric that matches the less prominent color in the room.

What is the solution to this? Make your living room’s walls the same color as the rest of the space to create a cohesive look. It’s not necessary to go out and get everything in this color palette; mix and match colors to bring diversity to the place.

Solve real issues while keeping everything within budget

You can spruce up your dreary kitchen cupboards with a fresh coat of paint and new hardware without going for costly (and ornamental) cabinetry on poorly made hardwood.

It will not only seem out of style, but also the money may be effectively used somewhere else. When it comes to the bathroom, a simple lighting change may make a world of difference.

Another budget-friendly option you can go to is replacing all regular curtains with ready-made blackout curtains to save big bucks on utility bills as they blockout out 90% of all exterior lights and noises coming in.

What else? It’s best to switch to less “yellow” or battery fairy tale lights in your new home. Dimming the lights in the bathroom at night or creating an intimate atmosphere for a bubble bath is a simple but effective solution that doesn’t cost a fortune.