You\u2019d be surprised how easy it is to breathe new life into a room just by changing the furniture around. Often, furniture blocking spaces or obstructing your vision of windows can make a room feel enclosed and stuffy.<\/p>\n
You can try to open up your spaces by moving furniture closer to the walls, leaving a clear space in rooms or in front of windows. Conversely, you can use furniture to create \u201czones\u201d in a large, open room. This creates dedicated living areas which feel cosier for time with family or friends.<\/p>\n
If you really want to get creative, a great affordable decorating idea is to buy blank canvases and paints and start painting! To be safe, try a run test runs on paper first, finalise your piece and then try your painting on canvas.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re not necessarily the artistic type another affordable decorating option is buying canvases. You can create a canvas print using your own photos, or choose from one of our wall art designs; we have millions to choose from. Click here to start browsing.<\/a><\/p>\n Or, try one of these affordable decorating ideas:<\/p>\n To create a wall display with materials you already own, simply purchase some hooks and hang plates or your hats on the hooks. Lay your display out on the floor or bed before<\/em> you start adding hooks on your walls, so you know exactly how your display will look when it\u2019s ready to hang.<\/p>\n Our tip:<\/em> If hanging plates, be sure to choose reliable hooks which can withstand the weight of your plates.<\/p>\n When you\u2019re low on things to do, it\u2019s the perfect time to create a gallery wall! A gallery wall can be a fabulously affordable decorating idea, particularly if you already have lots of existing pieces of wall art<\/a> to hang. Here\u2019s how to do it:<\/p>\n Natural materials are a fabulous affordable decorating idea, especially if your current interiors scheme is full of whites and natural fabrics already, such as cotton and linen. Here are some great affordable decorating pieces you can add to your home, directly from nature:<\/p>\n Upcycling furniture is far kinder to the environment than buying all new pieces. Far too often, old furniture that we throw out ends up in landfill. But this doesn\u2019t need to be so! Reviving old furniture is a fantastically affordable decorating idea; often, all your old furniture needs is some TLC and a lick of paint. Try these ideas to repurpose old furniture:<\/p>\n It\u2019s truly amazing what a fresh coat of paint can do in reviving old furniture or walls. Here are our top tips for choosing paint colours:<\/p>\n We hope this blog has given you some great affordable decorating ideas to beat the boredom and refresh your interior spaces. Which idea will you try first?<\/p>\n For more inspiration, head to our blog<\/a>, or start shopping at Canvas Factory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Home decorating doesn\u2019t have to be expensive; you\u2019d be surprised at what you can achieve with a splash of paint here and a pop of colour there. Read on for our top ideas on affordable decorating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,93],"tags":[193,183],"class_list":["post-4902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interior-design","category-wall-art","tag-affordable-decorating","tag-interior-design"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5319,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions\/5319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"affordable](\"https:\/\/www.canvasfactory.co.nz\/blog\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/curology-6CJg-fOTYs4-unsplash-2-e1586166720636.jpg\")
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<\/a><\/p>\n5. Affordable decorating using natural materials<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n6. Revive and repurpose old furniture<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n7. Add a fresh coat of paint<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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