25 Creative Tips for Your Room Makeover!

Jan 22, 2018

Richa Parmar is an Architect by profession & blogger by choice. She gained her B-Arch degree since 2014. She leads the team Gharpedia. She is a Sr. Manager – Architect at SDCPL. She is a senior editor and also a core member of Editorial Team. She looks after Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape, Vaastu, & Best Home Design sections of Gharpedia, apart from overall supervision. Passionate in the field of designing & creativity, she loves doing researching in her field & implements the same in her all work. Apart from writing, she loves painting, reading & travelling. You can reach her at LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Quora & Medium.

Room makeover generally include the painting and or polishing furniture, Reupholster chairs/sofa/sectionals and put the organisation tips to work. Redecorating your home brings the newness and different look to your rooms.

It is not always necessary to buy the new stuffs and you already have everything all you need to decorate. You just need the proper guidance and ways to decorate your home interior with as less expense as possible!

Here are creative and innovative home makeover ideas for your rooms and none of are very complicated, trust me!

Must Read: 16 Tips to Decorate & Furnish Your Home on Auspicious Occasions!

01. Use Something Natural – Indoor Plants:

You can buy a tree in a basket or planter and put it in your loneliest corner of your room as part of room decor. You can also stick some uplights behind it!

You can also keep a plant at a non-working fire place to open up!

02. Paint the Legs & Arms of an Old Chair:

You can give the better look to the legs/arms of a wooden chair furniture with a fresh coat of paint, then use the chair as a side table to hold books with throws-pillows, etc to it!

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03. Add Luxury with a Throw:

You just have to change your throw for an old sofa for an instant room makeover and suddenly it will look luxurious and exotic.

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04. Use Silk to Cover-up Your Pillows:

Cover your throws of pillows/cushions with silk velvet and yes don’t forget to use invisible zipper!

05. Go Angular for an Instant Change in Layout (Common Area):

Consider setting furniture and carpet in an angle of a room, by doing this it will change the whole look of your room decor.

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06. Make Alive Your Room Corners:

If you have a corner which is kind of dead, you simply need to make a pedestal out there with for e.g. white gloss paint and anything you put on it under glass or wooden bowl , suddenly that space will become important for you. It will give a look like a little museum installation!

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07. Repurpose your Bracelets as a Napkin Rings:

Colourful plastic/wooden bangles are great for a casual table, while metal ones can complement a formal setting.

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08. Redecorating your Children’s Room with Ribbons:

Don’t let all your scraps you have been saving from holidays/birthday parties go to waste! You can transform your children’s bedroom by tying those colorful ribbons around the knobs, chest of drawers, stem of a lamp or the legs of a table, etc.

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09. Pull-in Extra Seats:

You can use some wooden benches which can used for extra seating in your home interior. They are available in teak/mango wood or you can paint them with your favourite colour for your room decor!

10. Try a Higher Perspective:

Instead of using the usual coffee table, you can try a pedestal table at tea height. It is more versatile. You can even pull up a few chairs and eat at it. The scale & height creates a different vision in your home interior, which is much more interesting than regular!

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11. Use Seasonal Accessories:

You can buy some trendy wicker baskets (colourful) from the shops and fill it with fruits and put them in a dining room or over a table!

12. Add Light to Your Room by Using Big Mirrors:

You can place a large mirror opposite a window to open up a room and double the amount of natural light to enhance your home interior.

13. Divide the Drawers:

You can go to the store and buy all those drawer dividers and start organizing the accessories for your kitchen/dressing/chest drawers, etc.

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14. Try to Use New Style Light-bulb:

Experiment the different light-bulbs for your room makeover, in your chandeliers, instead of the traditional flame tip. You can ditch the shades for a modern look!

15. Create an Oasis:

You can make your bathroom feel like a spa. for that get rid of the clutter, buy fabulous towels in a new colour and add few small candles & light them at night when you have guests.

16. Revive your Bedroom:

New bedding can make a bedroom feel fresh and new again!

17. Rethink the Empty Wall of your Room:

In your common area, arrange the family/Artistic photo frames on wall with different collage patterns can create a great effect of your home makeover.

18. Create New Countertop Storage:

Find attractive containers for all those items on the kitchen counter. For e.g. you can add white modern canisters for flour, sugar, pasta, with a matching tray for oils & vinegars, etc.

19. Accent with Red:

Add a splash of red to your room decor. It could be a lampshade, a cushion, a carpet with some red in the pattern. Red is so elevating for any room makeover!

20. Switch Pulls & Knobs:

You can change the kitchen cabinetry hardware for a different look.

21. Think on a Larger Scale:

Use fewer pieces of art, but are bigger in scale. These could even be an oversize posters or any geometry shapes! (depend upon your choice)

22. Use Colourful Shelf Liners:

You can use it in your kitchens and bathrooms. It gives a little depth and texture, and anything you put in front of it looks great!

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23. Be Creative with Party-Ware:

For a quick pick-me-up, you can buy an oversize wicker wrapped glass hurricanes for Party look!

24. Protect Your Furniture from Pets:

When we have a pet in our house, we can casually drap & tuck those white canvas painters drop clothes over furniture. It will calm down the room decor and look so good & we can keep them not a longer than we had to!

25. Upgrade the Table Top:

You can add glass top over a table for more sophisticated look by putting fabric or wall paper underneath it or you can also paint the table top with bright colours!