Creative Approaches to Help your home Appear Higher priced

Many people imagine purchasing a brand new home, but in most cases this isn’t a choice. If you think your home looks drab and inexpensive, you don’t need to spend an arm and leg on upgrades. A few simple DIY projects can produce a creative space that looks new as well as on trend.

Creative Approaches to Help your home Appear Higher priced

1. Paint the Floor
Are you dealing with ugly vinyl or wood flooring that you can’t find the money to replace? Paint it instead. Give unattractive old flooring a breath of design, and make an old room look as if it belongs in a beautiful new home. Use porch paint as opposed to regular wall paint, since porch paint is designed to take foot traffic. Try creating stripes, squares or diamonds with tape to provide the floor an original look. Of course, if you’re tight on money or time (or both) a single new color will work wonders, too.

2. Redo Outdated Light Fixtures
Ugly light fixtures undoubtedly are a major reason why rooms look drab. Thankfully, you can find inexpensive fixtures online and at your local hardware store. To cut costs, go for simple, modern fixtures that won’t go out of style anytime soon and that will match many decor styles. If you’re able to afford to splurge just a little, a small but chic chandelier in the dining room or bedroom adds a pop of elegance. Do the same with your porch light!

3. Add Window Dressings
Blinds are fine for utility’s sake, however they don’t look very pretty. Regardless of whether your existing blinds work just fine, hang window dressings anyway. Get stylish curtain rods and pretty curtains that match each room’s decor. Make sure you hang them in a uniform manner. Current styles dictate that your dressings extend about a foot above your window, and a minimum of a few inches past each side. Hanging your dressings high creates the illusion your ceiling is higher than it is. Some people hang their curtains right at the ceiling to get a dramatic effect.

4. Put up Crown Moulding
Crown moulding hides the joints between your walls and ceilings. It’s not the sort of detail people notice immediately, however it will help make your room look and feel more valuable from the get-go. The subtle detail also looks beautiful above bland window frames, and will add an element of elegance to your window dressings, too. Crown moulding is especially attention grabbing when you paint it a different color than the walls and the ceiling to make it stand out. Many opt for white, but wood stain looks gorgeous too.

5. Paint Your White Fridge Metallic
Stainless steel refrigerators have been in for many years, and for good reason; They provide your kitchen an expensive look. For those who can’t splurge on new appliances, get some metallic paint at your local home improvement store and paint your white refrigerator’s doors, handles and sides. You can select paint that mimics stainless steel, or get creative and choose another metallic tint that suits your kitchen’s existing decor. Brightly colored refrigerators also are in this year. Decide what will look best in your kitchen.

6. Paint the Garage to Create a Faux Carriage Door
Want a simple, easy way to add charm to your garage door? Paint it to appear as if it has windows. When your garage door needs a new coat of paint anyway, take this opportunity to spruce it up and give it a new color. Then, along the top of your garage door, lay out rectangles with painter’s tape. Cross them with tape, too, to create a window-pane pattern. Use shiny black paint to fill in the tiny rectangles you’ve created. When you peel off the tape, it’ll seem like you’ve got a bunch of tiny windows in your garage door, creating the appearance of an old carriage house. You can add hardware as a finishing touch.

7. Frame the Television
Why bother with a boring wall mount or a plain TV stand when you’re able to frame your television? If you’re up for it, you can build a frame to fit your television. Because that’s the kind of DIY project that not everyone can handle, you can also find a frame significantly bigger than your television and just place it on the wall around your television. Or consider framing some of your best artwork in thin frames that appear to be something like your television’s existing plastic frame. Then hang that artwork around your television so that it seems as if it’s another section of the wall art.

8. Cover Old Floors With Laminate
If you’re sick of your carpet or old tile, but don’t have the budget for real hardwood floors, try laminate flooring as a temporary, significantly less expensive option. You can put the laminate right on top of your old floor for a totally new look!

9. Try Your Hand at Wallpaper
Wallpaper is a fantastic way to provide some personality to your walls and make your house look more expensive. If you’re a commitment phobe, try a removable wallpaper that you can easily change.

You don’t have to spend a great deal to make your home look chic and expensive. Some smart shopping along with a fun weekend of DIY projects is actually all it should take to spruce up some of the parts of your home you’re not satisfied with.

Need a home to get creative in? Nick & Cindy Davis with RE/MAX Premier Group are here to assist you. We are always just a click here or call to 813-300-7116 away.

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3806 N Lake Drive #24, Tampa, FL

3806 N Lake Drive #24
Tampa, FL

$159,999
- Lot Size
  
  1,307 sqft
- Home Size
  
  1,077 sqft
- Beds
  
  2 Beds
- Baths
  
  2 Baths
- Year Built
  
  1973
- Days on Market
  
  2
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