Wall Decor on a Budget

When you buy your first home or move into your first apartment money is tight and the walls are bare. You can solve the bare wall problem with a little creative décor on a budget. It's easy and it's fun. It's a project the whole family can be involved with. So with that in mind it's time to take a look at how to create a wall décor anyone can afford with simple steps and a few rules.

1. The first thing anyone thinks of when it comes to wall décor are pictures. They are great fun, beautiful, crazy and easy to afford. They are everywhere and you don't have to buy new unless you choose to. Search thrift stores and garage sales first. Most of the time at thrift stores pictures are as low as .25 to around 3.00. They are rarely ever more than 5.00. So you can set a budget for spending and have a great time.

2. Now that you know where to start you can plan a budget and the room you want to work on first. So choose a room. The bedroom, the living room, kitchen or the bath. All are easy to pick a theme and price to create a focal point on the wall of your choice. We will choose a room and go through each. As we pick a theme and what to look for in pictures we will also add to it with items easily found.

3. Kitchen. When you think of your kitchen what kind of a feeling do you want? Welcome and warm hospitality? Family gathering? Vintage, wine, love, foods or country simple? Once you decide what you want your kitchen to say to you then you will have a place to start. Let's choose dark colors and vintage country. Dark greens, light greens or blues will fit with this kitchen theme so you are going to start with you wall space. If it is a small area you won't need much. Look for pictures of the mentioned colors featuring plants and foods. Once you have found 3 good pictures of about the same size choose a color to accent the all and paint the frames. This will give them uniform effect. Hang close but not touching each other.

4. Bath. Bathroom are so much fun to decorate when it comes to walls. You may not have a lot of space, but the themes are unlimited. How about simple with light colors. Look for about 4 small pictures in frames. Anything from outdoor scenes to animals to shells in theme colors of pinks, blues and very light greens. Paint the frames one color that is contained in all the pictures bringing out the features in each. Hang them in a triangle pattern on the wall of your choice. Simple, sweet and very easy.

5. Bedroom. Do you want peace, comfort or romance? I love all of these combinations so we are going to find a mix to match our likes. For this theme blues are one of the best colors with a small mix of rose and white. Starting with the pictures choose one large picture with a comfort or romantic theme. It can be an ocean scene to people in a loving embrace to balloons softly floating in the sky. Paint the frame a soft white color. Check out your local lumber and home décor store for very inexpensive wood corner décor. They are very affordable when you buy them as small as 1 or 2 inches in size. Glue to the corners of your frame. Now choose two smaller pictures with the same color themes. Paint their frames a light matching a color in the larger picture.

Hang the larger picture centered on the wall of your choice and the small pictures with one near the top corner of the larger picture and on the other side the last one near the lower corner. Above and below each of the smaller picture hang tiny framed mirrors. Above all of it drape and old, but clean lace curtain held at each corner with silk flowers found at the thrift store in colors of red roses, white roses or soft colors matching the pictures. You wall is complete.

6. This is a start to decorating walls on a budget. You have so many other choices they can't all be listed, but for others you can make a collage of pictures taken throughout the years, hang Christmas ornaments in a grouping around pictures, candle holders on the wall with silk flowers instead of candles, lace, throws, rugs, shells, toys, clothes of many colors or just about anything your can think of. The main thing to remember is color theme and grouping. Your walls will become a beautiful focal point for you and your family. It doesn't take a lot of money, just your creative mind or that of friends. So Happy wall decorating with a small budget, large budget or even no budget. Let your mind go and have fun.