Have you fallen in love with a new house? Looking at how you can transform it from a nice house into your dream house? In this blog, we’ll take a look at some simple décor tips to help inspire you and help your new home live up to all of your expectations.
Declutter prior to moving
One of the common tricks that estate agents use to make properties seem more appealing is to ensure properties are free of clutter. This helps to provide a clean living space that is comfortable and seems more spacious. As soon as you start filling the space, it’s easy for this illusion to be broken especially if you have more stuff than you have storage for. Use a move to a new home as your chance to properly evaluate your needs and declutter your life. You’d be amazed by how many things you really, really don’t need and don’t actually use. From old clothes and shoes to DVDs and CDs, it’s amazing how much clutter we gather.
Paint and decorate right away
In an ideal world, you should do all your painting and decorating before moving your stuff into your new home. Not only is it much easier with an empty house but doing it this way will mean that you actually will do it. It’s much harder to paint and decorate when you have all your furniture and items in the way and the temptation will be to just not do it.
Set yourself a plan of action and what you want to achieve and stick to it. For tips on how to properly plan your decoration project read this blog.
Choose your furniture to fit your new home
A new home is also a chance to choose new furniture to match the style of your home. If you’re moving from a contemporary property to a period property, then chances are your furniture will look out of place in your new home. Pick a style of furniture that you like and use similar items throughout your home to tie things together. Don’t worry, all your furniture doesn’t have to come from the same range or manufacturer – but you should pick items that complement each other.
Upgrade your lighting
Standard light fixtures may do the job, but they are far from being unique or pretty. Designer light fixtures and fittings can help to make your home unique and will help add a touch of elegance to your property to help you love it even more. From chandeliers and metal light fixtures to freestanding lamps and industrial style light fittings, there are plenty of options available to enhance the décor of your home.
Add curtains and blinds
Good quality curtains and blinds can really help to frame your room as well as giving you privacy. Always choose the best quality you can afford and avoid unlined curtains as they are inexpensive for a good reason. For the bedroom, it is worth spending the extra money on blackout blinds, especially if you don’t like waking up at the crack of dawn.
Create a showroom look
There’s a reason that showrooms are so appealing, they help us to visualise products in our own homes – or at least how we picture them in our mind. To create the showroom look you simply need to make sure that you put things away every day and keep your home looking clutter-free. You’d be surprised at how much of a difference it makes keeping things tidy.