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6 DIY Projects to Give Your New Home a Personal Touch

A house is just a house if it doesn’t reflect your personality. When we move into a new place, it is common for it to be devoid of character, especially if we live in a rental.  Young families become an increasingly important demographic in the housing market, and many are seeking out homes that align with their values and interests. This means more than just adding decorative touches. Fortunately, there are several low-cost solutions to the problem. By taking on DIY projects, you can give your new home a personal touch that makes you feel welcomed and comfortable and aligns with your values and interests.

1. Repaint your new home

Sometimes following your instincts is the best approach when choosing colors for your interior design. Giving your house a personal touch involves creating a setting that represents you. So, your objective is to have a place where you will feel entirely at peace. Therefore, use your preferred colors and the hues that you love to wear and apply them to your home. Choose colors that will make you happy and develop your own color scheme to express your personality. For example, if you are modest, you should not feel obligated to include many bright colors in your decor. Throw away the rulebook and use any color combination you think works. As long as you’re satisfied with the outcome, that’s all that matters.

However, if you want to do this project correctly, there is one piece of advice you should follow. As the experts from verifiedmovers.com recommend, keep the furniture out of the house until you finish repainting all the rooms. That way, you will keep it safe from stains and scratches that can ruin it beyond repair.

2. Add texture and liveliness to your rooms

The texture is just as essential as the color of a room, especially if you wish to stick to a single color scheme, such as all-blue or all-white. A room with a single color scheme may appear uninteresting. Nevertheless, you can add a velvet chair, colored cushions, carpets, and so on to give your all-white room a vivid appearance at first sight. Whatever your taste, try to incorporate a lot of texture by bringing in a lot of fabrics since they enchant the eyes and create a pleasant setting. When you move into a new place, especially if it’s a rental, it’s common for it to be devoid of character.

In addition, you can add some throw pillows to your space to make it stylish and comfy. Simply change the covers on your existing throw pillows to give them a new look.

3. Give your new home a personal touch with light

You can modify the lighting in your home to create the mood you want. Changing the quantity of natural light within a house is not always feasible, but you can use indoor lighting to recreate the sense of natural light. At the same time, interior lighting can also counterbalance too much natural light. Depending on where you install spotlights, LED ceiling lighting may provide a stronger light that can replicate daylight and light up an entire room. Soft lighting, such as upward-facing wall lights, lamps, or string lights, gives a warmer and cozier feel than LED lighting.

4. Make a memory wall

Our memories are priceless, yet they are fleeting. Fortunately, as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Therefore, make an accent wall loaded with your favorite images to give your new home a personal touch. You can print your favorite memories in various sizes, mount them, frame them, and arrange them to make a unique pattern on the wall.

If you’re renting, non-permanent hanging alternatives will allow you to decorate without damaging walls. You’ll have your life and greatest moments to look at, at any time of the day. Moreover, having your memories on display will help you settle in. Therefore, hang up pictures as soon as possible to make the process easier and feel more at home.

5. Rearrange and repurpose your furniture

Simply rearranging your couch, coffee table, bookshelves, TV unit, and other furniture may give your house a new look and feel without spending a dime. Because furniture takes up a lot of space in your house, moving it around allows you to see things from a different perspective. You may also polish or replace the covers on your furniture to give it a fresh look.

In addition, repurpose your old furniture or items by turning them into new pieces. For instance, use a ladder for a coat stand, a suitcase into a magazine stand, or make a side table out of a broken shutter door. If you’re in the midst of a simultaneous home purchase and sale, repurposing old furniture and items can be an excellent way to cut costs while adding a personal touch to your new abode.

6. Use mirrors

Mirrors have more benefits than merely providing a spot to check your outfit. They are a wonderfully flexible design feature that adds instant glamor and appeal while enhancing natural light and optimizing your home’s sense of space. Moreover, mirrors are undeniably ornamental but don’t exhibit actual art. Therefore, don’t be afraid to use a bold frame. Make your own mirror frames and consider using vibrant metallics, layered materials, carved wood, or an embellished pattern. Then, incorporate the mirrors into your rooms, including the kitchen, hallways, or small and dark rooms.

At the same time, place a large mirror above your mantle for a stylish and elegant look. You may mount it to the wall or lean it, but ensure it’s completely secure when tilted to avoid shattered glass.

Final words

As you can see, some of these suggestions are obvious ways to decorate your home, but we feel that people need to be reminded of how simple life can be. Sometimes we desire more than we need and lose sight of our creative side, which may create many unique ideas without spending money. We hope you will use many of the tips above for affordable home decor and give your new home a personal touch. We recommend you begin by changing a wall and then moving some furniture. Things will look utterly different from this point on, making it easy to continue.