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You don’t have to be an interior designer to make your apartment fashionable and welcoming. A few simple updates will give your apartment a new look – and it won’t cost you a lot of time or money. Here are 20 ways to express your style and creativity in your space:
- Update a lampshade with paint. Use stencils or try them freehand.
- Give your small kitchen a modern look with black and white accessories.
- Find prints or old photos that you like and make them bigger for your walls.
- Mix up the dining room. Instead of matching table and chairs, mix it up by finding antique chairs in a variety of styles
- Use different variations of the same color to give your bedroom a modern and funky look.
- Gather small and large props in a group.
- Try to use photo rugs that are the same color as your wall.
- Put your artwork in an asymmetrical grouping.
- Add pom poms to a pillow.
- Define your living space with a bold circular rug.
- Paint some old chairs a bright, vivid color (think tangerine orange or peacock blue).
- Add flowers to the dining room table.
- Replace your standard bulbs with Edison bulbs for an industrial look.
- Add an oversized light fixture to your dining room (think big and bold).
- Use floating shelves to display your favorite collections.
- Twine and mini clothespins are a great way to display photos, and you can change them often.
- Add pale shades or pastels to make your apartment light and airy.
- Hang the photos from floor to ceiling. Use adhesive hooks so as not to leave marks on the wall.
- Coordinate your bath towels according to the mat and shower curtain.
- Add mirrors to a small room to make it look bigger.
Posted: February 28, 2020
