Easy Home Decorating with Wall and Floor Borders

An easy and effective way to decorate your home to attain a maximum return is the use of borders to walls and floors. Adding a border to your wall or floor can produce a heightened sense of style on a very low budget. Borders have the ability to add an aesthetic element to a room as well as to highlights other features and even to give the illusion of a change in size. The easiest way to utilize border decorating in the home is with manufactured borders that you can easily find in decorating stores, the Home Depot and the Target. All that is required to transform a room is some creativity and a debit card.

Wallpaper Borders
Wallpaper borders are essentially just strips of pre-pasted paper that can be applied to the wall just below the intersection of wall and ceiling. Wallpaper border is less expensive and time-consuming that applying wallpaper to an entire wall. The borders are easily applied and give the walls to which they adhere a sense of highfaulutin' charm. Wallpaper borders are even available as a collection of coordinated wall coverings and bed coverings. Yes, you can coordinate your wallpaper borders and linens to create a charming combination effect.

Vinyl Borders
Vinyl borders are an excellent choice for those whose houses are subject to the effects of pollution or the handling of walls by small fingers attached to children. Vinyl is not only very durable, it's washable. This makes the choice of vinyl borders especially suitable for the bedrooms of your children, hallways and kitchens. The grease and smoke that is produced by the kitchen chores can be easily cleaned from vinyl borders. Vinyl borders are also quite easy to apply as they contain an adhesive backing that will effectively stick to wallboard, painted walls and even paneling. The one drawback is that you may need to enhance the adhesive with a special glue if you are placing vinyl borders over existing wallpaper.

Stenciled Borders
Get yourself a stencil at the paint, hardware or decorating store and use paint to create a hand-drawn border effect on both walls and floors. If you cannot find a pre-made stencil design that really gets your decorating motor humming, you can create one yourself. Find an image you want to create as stencil and print it out and then cut out the design for use. You can also purchase stenciling kits at craft stores to help you out with your desire for stenciled borders.

Stamped Borders
Stamped borders are similar to stenciled borders except that you use a rubber stamp to apply the design rather than painting through a stencil. Stamps are available at art supply and craft stores, but you can also make your own by transferring your design onto a large rubber eraser.