How to make a cookie-cutter house scream "you"
After years of accumulating things, cutting back can be daunting. Where do I put everything? What do I keep and how do I make this house a home? Customizing your house is usually about hanging your favorite art on the walls, filling the house with plants and adding colorful rugs and pillows. Trendy homes use surprising color schemes, distressed furniture and old things arranged in fantastic shapes. But not everyone can afford it, so they make up their own version of the cool pictures they see online. You can take a cookie cutter house makeover with just a few dollars, some color, hardware and imagination.
Kitchen / dining room
It is easy enough to worry about existing cabinets. Just paint them in two or three shades of the color or stain you like. Gently drop them with something heavy, but not enough to cure them. Then gently grind things up until the hue of the color or color comes through. This can also be done with your porcelain cupboard and sideboard in the dining room.
What would the kitchen look like without built-in cabinets? Have you wanted more space but didn't know how to get it? Remove the cabinets from the walls. Paint the walls if necessary. Instead of shelves, attach the fireplace mantles that are now trendy. Different lengths and widths give the kitchen a tailored look, and they give you extra space to store dishes or whatever you need to store.
Do you have French doors between the kitchen and the dining room? Do you feel like a prey? Remove the French doors and attach the child door hardware over the door frame. The barn door can either slide or open out. Paint the door any color you want, or let the natural wood shine through. These can be hung in any room you want, or even as an entrance door that allows the neighbors to have their own.
Living room
Who doesn't love ceiling beams? Mitered beams can be hung in plain form, or you can make them look like sunbeams that spread from a central point. From the central point a chandelier made of a wagon wheel could be hung. These would be a fantastic reflection of your hardwood floors.
Maybe rays won't do it for you. A mural you would find in the Sistine Chapel could show off your individuality perfectly. If you do not want to go to all these problems, find things at farm sales and resale stores. Silver plates, wrought iron railings, old wooden pails or old doors could be made a point of contact in the room. A little color and a little old hemp rope would give these and other objects new life.
bedroom
Every child wants his / her room to be their own. For the sports kid, the room can be painted to look like a baseball diamond. Get a net to make a backstop, where his stuffed animals, ball gear and a uniform sweater could be hung. Nature's children might like a room painted like a field of wheat, a forest or a barn. If you can get hold of the drawer with the door, place it at an angle of two walls. Behind the door was her stuffed animal in her own space. The fish nut can use a canoe. At the top of the canoe you can build a desk with built-in bookshelves. You can make it into a bed if it is wide enough.
The master bedroom is a place for relaxation and quiet sleep. If you can't afford a fish tank from floor to ceiling, paint it on the wall. Close the world with some material and a curtain rod. Attach the curtain rod to the ceiling above the bed. Wind rail as well as other material from the bar so that they drape over the bed. Paint the ceiling with midnight starry skies.
Individualizing your home not only makes it stand out in the crowd, but it is comforting and a source of pride.
