Tips For Keeping A Space From Looking Boring

Are you concerned that your home looks a little boring? If you are, don’t worry – many people are in the same boat you are when it comes to the look and feel of their home. Maybe the walls are pure white and the floor is light wood and you’re just not sure there’s any life in the room? 

But before you simply write off your living space and forget about it, you can take even just a weekend to give your home a spruce up!

You can do plenty to redecorate and give your space the personality it needs; most of all, if you want your home to reflect the kind of person you are, it’s time to learn how to dress your home up in the style you’ve always wanted. And you don’t have to convert the loft to turn it into a home cinema to make your home seem more fun and exciting! 

There are a lot of little ways to redecorate that have a high impact. After all, you already know what you want your home to look like, now you’ve just got to put your decorating plan into action! And with all of this in mind, here are some high impact, yet budget ways, to prevent your home from looking a little plain or boring any longer. 

Make Your Furniture Look More Comfortable

If you want a space to stop looking so plain, you’re going to need an element everybody loves: being comfortable! And that means focusing on your furniture, and even throwing a rug on the floor. Simply put, you’ll want your room to look softer, and like you can spend some time in it, and making sure there’s something to lounge against. 

If you’ve got a spare blanket or two in the closet, that’s a good place to start. Use it to cover your sofa and your bed, to give an extra layer of warmth and softness to both of these large, focal points of furniture. Make sure you invest in a few new cushions or pillows as well, and try to incorporate more hints of color through them – a tropical rainbow of pillow covers will work wonders in an otherwise pale and/or white space! You can even swap these cases in and out depending on what season it is, to give your home a sense of the ever changing outside world that’s so comforting to a lot of us. 

Add a Shiny Touch

We all love a bit of glitter and sparkles, right? Well, why not include this idea in your strive to decorate your home to seem more like you? Because a shiny touch or two really works, especially in rooms like the kitchen and the bedroom, thanks to the amount of metallic material items you can buy for either space. 

A gold lamp on a bedside table, with a vintage inspired lampshade, and any Oak shade color cabinet to stand on is always a winning match! Maybe you should have some vintage brass kettles on that kitchen shelf as well? Your space will look so much more sophisticated, and you’ll certainly draw the eye here and there thanks to just how much silver and gold, or platinum and rose gold tones, tend to catch the light. 

You can even invest in some metallic furniture paint to give that side table or hallway cabinet a mirrored look. That’ll help the space to both look bigger and brighter, and it pairs well with any other color you decide to put on the walls. 

Go All Out on a Feature Wall

A feature wall is often considered the number one way to spice up your space and make the room look more interesting, and that’s a principle you’ll want to apply in droves right now. You can do a lot with just one wall, and a bit of inspiration, and you can make a room look much more dynamic and ‘lived in’, but in a stylish and even chic way. And if you’ve ever wondered if a feature wall is worth the time, here’s your sign it is! 

But how do you get started? First, you’ll need to choose your wall carefully. It needs to make sense, so either as a backdrop for the rest of the room, or as the focal point itself. For the former, think about the wall most of your furniture is against, and for the latter, take notice of where your eyes are drawn to when you first walk in. Then choose your spot!

Once you have, it’s time to dress it up. What do you want out of a feature wall? A bit of color? Or do you want it to have plenty of function too? You can combine both if you want to as well! Put up a few shelves, decorate them with plants and books and interesting novelty items, and make sure you’re using a cream cloud print from Wallpaper Boulevard to pair your DIY with very nicely. 

Invest in Art

Are you an artsy kind of person? Maybe you prefer plain walls, or you prefer to have pictures of friends and family up instead? Well, it might be time to switch out your style a little, and think about investing in some more painted pictures, as these are always a major impact on the way you perceive your home. 

Art is something we all enjoy, even if we don’t know any painters or we’re not the kind of person who enjoys touring galleries or museums. The interpretive element, and the fact that a picture ‘paints a thousand words’, is really all it takes to get someone to stop and think about what they’re looking at. Why wouldn’t you want a similar concept to enrich your own living space? 

And art prints can be bought from general furniture stores, online shops, and even be commissioned directly if you find an artist you like on Facebook or Instagram. The latter option is great if you’re looking to make your space more unique – you’ll get a piece that doesn’t exist anywhere else! 

Buy a Beautiful Lampshade

As we touched on above, a good looking lampshade is always going to add some depth and interest to a room, and it’s one of the easiest ways to dress up a space. Whether you’re a fan of overhanging chandeliers, or you prefer the more intimate lighting that table or standing lamps give you, you can always find a more interesting and ultimately beautiful lampshade to decorate your space with. 

The fact that such lampshades draw the eye and help to border the other decorating efforts in your rooms isn’t their only benefit. Indeed, the way a lampshade is designed, in terms of shape and size, is also going to affect how the light is cast over your room. This tends to affect how every other object in your home is seen as well, so if you’ve got a smaller space, or your cupboards are a little bare, you can use light to help cover up the small corners or the empty shelves. 

Showcase Your Hobbies

Finally, if you really want your home to feel more like you, and be a lot more interesting to look at by anyone (rather than seeming like it’s walked straight out of a showhome magazine!), why not show off the things you love to do? You’ve got some hobbies, even if you’re just a big reader and love the written word, and that needs a bit of celebrating in the space that’s meant to be entirely yours! 

A sewing machine and materials on a desk here, clay pots you’ve made and varnished yourself sitting on a shelf there; as long as you love to do it, and you’ve had a hand in making/using it, it deserves to be showcased! Similarly, you can use quote stencils to apply your favorite book passages to a wall here and there, and it’ll always comfort you to look at them. What could be a better use of your spare space? 

Are You Worried About How Your Home Looks? 

We can all have a bit of boring space here and there, but as long as this plain aspect doesn’t overpower the entirety of a room, you’re just fine! You don’t have to dress up every single portion of your home, but if all of your walls are bare, and you’ve got no rugs in the home at all, that’s an easy and simple fix right there! 

All in all, as long as you’re happy with the look of your home, you can rest easily in it. However, if you think you’ve got a boring room here and there, why not add a bit more of a spark to it with the tips above? A potted plant in the corner here, your favorite thing to do laid out there, but most of all, make sure you try something new to see how much you like it! 

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