We live and walk through our homes every day after awhile we no longer notice the little things. Every so often we need to sit down and take a good long hard look at a room in our home and begin planning on how to make it shine like new once again. Taking several photographs of the room can help you notice what seems out of place or what does not ?go? with the rest of the room. Take the photographs with you when you go to the design store.



Most design professionals would have you start with the wall colors, well when you start your room make over it is a good idea to start with painting, but in the early design stages it is best to start with the items that will be hard to change later. Pick your furniture style, color and texture of the fabric first then move on to things like the carpet or wood floors. These things are either very expensive or hard to change once they are done, while changing the paint on the wall is quite easy.

Changing the look and feel of your furniture can be less expensive than you may have thought for example upholstering simple dining room chairs can easily be done by most handy home owner. Upholstery fabric comes in a standard width of 54 inches wide and is sold by the yard so 1 yard would yield a piece of fabric 36 inches by 54 inches. Measure the area that you will be recovering. Tip draw a picture of the shape of the piece of material you need some what to scale showing the size in relationship to the piece of fabric this will help you determine how much fabric to purchase. Tip you can use the old fabric for a pattern to cut your new fabric. You can use staples or tacks to hold the new fabric to your chairs. Larger items such a sofa or a chair that are much ore difficult to recover can effectively be transformed by purchasing or making slip covers to change the look and feel of your furniture.

Adding accent touches to round out your makeover is a key element in the overall look of the room, adding wood items is always a good choice in a traditional home. There is no replacement for the natural beauty and warmth that wood gives to a room. These wood accent pieces can be in the form of a lamp, sculptures or even a simple Shaker peg coat rack. Wainscotings is another excellent way to add the warmth of wood although this will take additional time and expense.

A room makeover can be done in six days or even less depending on the level of redesign. Allow one to two days to pick out and pick up all the supplies you will need. One day to paint. Another one to two days to redo the floor, professional's can install a wood floor or carpet a room in one day. A final day to clean up and arraign your accent items a new room in six days.