hey welcome back to the tip of the day so I’m going to show you my bedroom again and I’m gonna give you some quick decorating ideas on a budget that you can do to decorate your bedroom I am in
no way a decorator but I do have some tricks that I use to try to make the room look okay without spending a lot of money so here we go my first trick that I always do is try to stick with the 3 5 and 7 roll
and that’s everything from
placements of things to to paint colors
so in this room I said I have and
I always say black and white wouldn’t
choosing paint colors are neutral so
they don’t count so in this room I have
three colors I have the dark blue the
light baby blue and the green as an
accent color and so what I’m choosing
when they only have three colors I can’t
really go wrong when I’m out shopping I
sort of can stick within that palette
and it’s so soothing to have a minimal
color scheme like that and I love that
pop of green so how I introduced some of
the accent colors into the room really
inexpensively were first these lamps I
found them at a yard sale
there were dollar each they were so ugly
I’ll show you really zooming in here
they were brass and disgusting so we
took them apart and I just spray paint
at the bottom white and this part here
white and then this I spray-painted with
that apple green give it a couple coats
and then wet sanded wet sanding is using
them it’s like this black sandpaper it’s
very fine grit you soak it in water to
sand it and it takes out all the bubbles
from the sandpaper from this from the
spray paint I mean and it gives it like
this smooth look like you bought the
lamp like that so literally a dollar
lamp
it looks fantastic and I love that I
could customize the color with the
leftover spray paint I actually
spray-painted the mattes of these
picture frames I picked them really
inexpensively
and I loved that the mat was so huge
like the matting is so big on that but
it was like tie-dyed brown and like all
these horrible ugly colors and so I knew
I could spray paint it so I just took it
out laid it on the grass on a blanket
and spray-painted them and then it’s
another way of adding a punch of color
of course this old chair – that was so
disgusting was my grandma’s we recovered
it really really easily and really
inexpensively in the same green color
and I really like I’m not a big bed
maker I’m not a good at making a bed Oh
as you can tell but one of my tricks – I
do not spend time I throw the covers up
one of the tricks to making it look okay
is always using throw pillows because it
hides like my nasty pillowcases that are
in no way fancy or nice at all and I
like having a pop of color at the end of
the bed so instead of splurging on a
blanket which can be really expensive
for king-size bed this is just a scrap
of fabric that I got from fabric land
for like five dollars
I didn’t even hem it I just fold it it
serves no purpose other than to give a
pop of color at the end of the bed you
can see my kids have been climbing on my
bed all day it looks horrible I should
have fixed that before the video I
apologize for that we just roll with it
here anyway we went to Ikea this past
weekend and we actually got these new
end tables which I love are in tables
before we’re like filing cabinets that
we used forever because they worked but
I really liked these ones because
they’re sort of open and I’m like this
storage I’m like everything has to have
storage my husband’s like why don’t we
just have something that looks a little
more open so it’s not so there’s so much
furniture in here
so I totally went with that one and I
love it because there’s still storage in
here but anyways we also picked up this
so much it kind of like we this bed is
just a plain old mattress and box spring
that we had and we made this headboard
using plywood and covered it with quilt
batting and then covered it with a white
material we stapled it behind and then
we drilled holes in it to add buttons to
give it a custom look the button kit you
can get from any fabric store and we
used with the same fabric we used for
the curtains that I made and the pillows
and the same fabric that we covered for
just staple gun around bead like a cork
board anyway so it looked really nice
but I thought like the bed just sort of
floated and you did like a footboard so
this was a media center at IKEA it was
really inexpensive and it’s the perfect
size it’s six feet to have as a
footboard or like a bench at the end of
the bed and it has storage
I put magazines in those spots and then
we have like storage now it’s sick talk
you learn I love it and it’s part of the
hens collection so it matches our really
a min expensive dresser that we’ve had
for a really long time
another really inexpensive project that
I didn’t hear when we first moved in
because I had no money and we had
nothing for the walls are these bristol
board butterflies I just downloaded a
template from Google images of butterfly
templates and then I traced it onto the
bristol board and cut them out glued
them onto pushpins and then stuck them
in my wall in a random pattern and they
like that because you use pushpins or
kind of stuck out from the wall so it
gives it that nice shadowed wall
applique look and it was free
speaking of budget this was an old
fireplace that I found on Kijiji which
is a lot like Craigslist was really
beat-up and in pretty bad shape but a
couple quick coats of spray paint and it
looks awesome and it’s a great holder
for our TV it’s a little small for the
TV but that’s okay I have a fireplace in
my bedroom like I said it was really
really inexpensive but a quick coat of
white paint can fix anything I’ve
painted so much in this room the chair
the lamps the fireplace paint can fix
anything and it’s really inexpensive
another inexpensive thing I did in the
room recently was this I wanted a
full-length mirror but I could not find
a white one anywhere so then I found
this one at Target it was ten dollars
it’s one of those behind the mirror
behind the door mirrors but the problem
was it was just plain so also at Target
I saw these you’ve probably seen them a
lots of times you know these wall
applicate things you can get they’re
pretty cheap and they kind of stick on
they have these stickers on the bottom
on the back and you could put them like
in any way you want I just just put it
in this design but I think it gives the
mirror more like I don’t know a prettier
look I guess I don’t know what my
husband doesn’t like it
whatever I have a full-length mirror and
I think it looks kind of neat that it’s
a little bit different not just a plain
mirror and again that was like under $20
for that I always um loved to have fresh
flowers but they’re expensive so one a
fake flaw I’m not like a fake flower
person but a fake flower that looks kind
of real or always hydrangeas I think
that’s what these are called you know
those fake hydrangeas they’re the one
you can actually even get real dried
ones but they’re the one fake flower
that in my opinion looks real esque so
those aren’t real but I like having
flowers and I don’t want to have to
spend money for flowers all the time so
I have fake hydrangeas I know but anyway
so those are some ways and quick
decorating tips those are letters that I
just found at the dollar store and
spray-painted white we hung them on with
nails and then filled and painted again
so I mean the decor in this room was
really really inexpensive and it’s one
of my favorite rooms in the house hope
you had some tips that you could learn
to remember the three five seven rule I
forgot to tell you symmetry so important
I’ll show you really really quickly
symmetry is the trick every designers
trick while the designers who don’t know
how to design use symmetry and what that
means is if you have a table on one side
you want a table of equal height on the
other side lamp lamp centering it in the
room you can see my three my three five
seven will I keep three things on the
dresser three things on the dresser and
just sort of balance your all your focal
points so in your room your beds usually
your focal point so you want it in the
middle and then you want even things on
either side to create symmetry quick tip
you probably already know if you really
know how to decorate you don’t need to
use symmetry but I don’t so I do and it
looks okay so anyways those are some
decorating tips we’ll see you next time
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