I know you are looking for inexpensive ways to add charm to your home, and that’s what today is all about. These are all easy and inexpensive ways to update your home.
I am so excited to hear that many of you are enjoying the podcast! It’s so much fun to record the episodes. Yvonne and Kelly are such dear friends and they are so fun and funny. If you prefer to not listen, that’s totally fine. My plan is to write the blog posts as before. You should not need to listen to the podcast to get the key points. But if you want to hang out with us, laugh, and get into the subject a bit more, be sure to listen! You can subscribe in apple podcasts. These are the same discussions we have when we are not recording, so we finally decided it was time to record share them with our friends.
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1- SHOP YOUR HOUSE
When you need something new in your room, check around your house for something new. Rotating things around from one room to another gives your home new life and it’s free! If you are feeling like your home needs a refresh, maybe you don’t need to buy anything. Maybe you just need to move things around so that things feel new. I do this all the time. Each room gets a refresh, and I didn’t buy anything!
2- ADD POTTED HERBS
You are getting a scent, and something to cook with. Also it adds an organic look to the room. You don’t even need a pretty pot, just cover the pot with fabric.
3- USE A CLOCHE
It helps keep everything alive. You don’t need to water plants as often if you use a cloche. The cloche acts as a terrarium so the moisture stays inside. So the cloche creates a closed environment.
4- CUT FLOWERS
These pink carnations are from the grocery store. They are a nice thing to add to your home, but obviously they don’t last very long. Some cut flowers last longer than others.
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5- PINK LIGHT BULBS
Pink light bulbs don’t actually turn the room pink. They just add a hint of pink to the room. That bit of color gives the room warmth. It’s a very happy look, but not noticeably pink. Kelly swears by them.
6- USE A TRAY TO CORRAL A VIGNETTE
Small items can feel like they add clutter to a room, but if you group them together on a tray, it can really help give them a cohesive look. I love trays!
7- CHALK-BASED SPRAY PAINT
When I worked on the show Texas Flip N Move, we used this paint a LOT! It worked very well, and it was fast! For more information, just click on that spray can below. You’ll get all kinds of good information about the brand, colors and more.
8- PILLOWS
Pillows can be found cheaply and they are such a simple way to spruce up a room. Often I just move them from one room to another. Use neutrals like I did above, or use pillows to add splashes of color.
9- GET RID OF CLUTTER
Clutter can really make a room feel unhappy. It costs nothing except your time to remove excess things from a room. I always feel better after I unclutter a room.
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Great tips!
I love your site! Yours is the first I have subscribed to. Leave the rest far behind. All your advice is usable, for every room. I even realized that much of your advice and hints can be applied to other styles. You are amazingly talented. Thank you for your hard work. I laughingly thought one day that you have more hours in your day than I!
I need to find some cloche’s. I like that idea
I’m enjoying getting to know your thoughts – I’ve checked your blog every now and then over the last few years – now have you “delivered daily”. With the ugliness in our world today, these lovely pictures give me a happier start to my day. Thank you.
What did you use chalk spray paint on?
All good ideas!!!! Especially at this time of year!
I have a glass cake server with cover and love your îdea to use it…just.need a few small plants
Thanks…
Great ideas!! Thanks!
I also have a glass cake plate and cover. What a great cloche for small plants! Yay!
The podcasts really brings y’all (I’m a Texan) to life!
I forget to splurge and buy fresh flowers….thanks for the ideas.
Wonderful ideas?
To keep grocery store flowers longer, I cut the stem on a diagonal under running water in the kitchen sink then I add a little Sprite or 7-Up to the water in addition to the packet of flower food that comes with the bouquet. I change the water every few days always adding some of the soda to it. I’ve had grocery store flowers last 2 weeks.
Thanks for the great tips! I really love the cloches.
Thanks for the great ideas!
I found a big cloche like that at Hobby Lobby for $20 (glass items were on 50% off that week). I put it on a cake stand and ust added some moss, a few birds and a little picture of a nest I had.
The pillow idea is GREAT!! Last week I went to World Market and bought a pillow that had a few colors of my room PLUS HOT PINK!!! I don’t know why, but the pinks just bring the room up a notch! I also love your blue and white vase full of pink flowers! Beautiful!
Blessings to you,
J
I love the cloche idea. And the potted herbs. I’m going to start some today!
My first time listening and enjoyed it very much. Nice to hear your voice Anita! I just started reading your book and have already been inspire and I am only on chapter Two!! Can’t wait to finish and with some of the ideas that I heard today I will be making many changes that I hope will improve the look I want for my home. I too have several trays. Now I know how to use them all. Now on to the next Podcast.
Wonderful ideas!! Thanks so much!!
Thanks for all of the good tips. I especially like the one about shopping your own home because it’s free. I love that idea!!
You always seem to get my mind going! ThNK You Anita for today’s inspiration!
I love these suggestions. I have never tried a pink bulb before and will check it out. I have cloches and just need to get a couple of small plants or bulbs. I’m always looking around to sharpen the look or refresh. Thanks for the great ideas.
Great ideas as usual .Very pretty presentations!
Your #7 says chalk-based spray paint, but the write-up is only you bragging
about the show coming up. What is brand name or more info on the paints
you refer to? And I don’t see recent comment, do you know yet the date
for the show?
Glendolyn, I have the paint link in the post. Did you see it? You should see a can of paint with a link. The show will be this Friday or next Friday. I still don’t know!
The podcasts are sooo fun. I like how the blogs are “putting the meat on the bones” of the podcasts. Thanks!
I love using cloches and trays!
You and your friends always give us great ideas. Are those tulip bulbs in the cloche?
Jan those are paperwhites. I can’t wait for them to bloom.
Aren’t cloches wonderful!! They spotlight anything you put under them.
Ideas that make a statement. Love them all. I look forward to reading your post and seeing your photos.
Nancy
I love a cloche. So many things to do with them, inside or outside. We are having such warm weather lately it makes me want to move a few things around and declutter!
My downfall is the last hint – remove the clutter. That is my goal for the coming week. Once that is done, I can concentrate on all of the other tips. Thanks for sharing your talent.
My downfall is the last hint – remove the clutter. That is my goal for the coming week. Once that is done, I can concentrate on all of the other tips. Thanks for sharing your talent.
Great ideas ! Thanks for sharing!!
Clutter.. oh I feel overwhelmed just thinking of that word.. I don’t like clutter but it is a part of my life. I will declutter and before I know it I am back to the beginning. Winter seems worse for me. I love it when my daughter comes over and rearranges and helps me.. it doesn’t look like clutter then!! Thanks for the tips!
Love your tips, I use a lot of trays. Wish I had some cloches’ but I haven’t found any. The colors in your rooms are always so soothing, relaxing. Sandy Huntley
So many great tips! Pink Light bulbs are sold at Amazon (word spreads well)! i love the idea of making a cloches. i use cut branches all the time.
Such great ideas. I`ve never met a cloche or a tray I didn`t like!
Thank you!
thanks for reminding us to shop our homes, I do it often, some people think I am crazy, but it works and I am not spending any money
Love cloches and trays. You have wonderful ideas!
These are some great ideas… pink lightbulbs? Think I’ll have to get some!
Great decorating advice and ideas! It really is all in the details, isn’t it?
I love trays too. Definitely a great way to keep everything looking neat and grouped. Thanks for sharing your tips on Merry Monday.
I love shopping my basement. It’s easy to forget all the things you have stored away!
Thanks for sharing at Funtastic Friday!
Lovely ideas! I often bring home bunchesof flowers flrom the shop I woirkin, and all the rooms look so different arranged with all those flesh colors. I often use dried flowers for decoration too – they add some rustic feeling. Greets!
Excellent advice Isabelle! Thank you so much.