Searching for the most appropriate furnitures for your house is a very enjoyable job. But sometimes it becomes a difficult task for you (the homeowner) to get good stuff at a cheap price. In this situation, if you can spend some of your idle time along with patience and creativity, you can surely grab great furnitures at the best price. You might be moving into a new home, or just upgrading your old furnitures. Whatever the reason is...below given ways can save your wallet as well as can furnish your place beautifully.
Please go through the tips of decorating the home in a budget :
1) Make a wish-list of the furniture you need – If possible try to furnish the total house at once. Bulk purchase can get you a big discount. But if you decide to purchase the furnitures one by one, try to make a wish list first. It is for sure that new furnitures will cost you way more than old or used ones. So, if you can adjust with good conditioned used furnitures, you don't have to roam around in shops. For example, your bedroom and bathroom will require different kind of furnitures. You'll choose the most important piece rather than the pricy and luxurious ones.
2) Best deal online - Try to search via web, you'll find lots of options and offers online without spending a single dollar. Online retailers nowadays have best offers and huge collection of used goods. Among them Amazon, ebay, Overstock and shopify are quite popular. There are many social network groups & pages where you can find and communicate with sellers and grab good deals. Apart from online shopping, you can check newspaper and radio classifieds to find good offers. Craigslist is the most well known classified online. Other websites notably Freecycle.org, Nextdoor.com are quite popular.
3) Look for the price & sales – There is a chance of getting trendy stylish furnitures at a low cost. Most of the retail shops declares great “end of sale” offers which has huge discounts. Furniture companies normally launches new products around the month of February and August. They believe, January and July are the two crucial months when the clearance sale can be successful. Look for the whole set of old furnitures, it will be on a bigger discount than a single piece. You will see that new models are much costlier than the last seasons hit piece of design. This applies for both the whole set & single pieces.
4) Use multi function furniture - There are some unique furnitures which can be used in many purposes. These are called multi-functional furnitures. For an example – A couch-cum-bed can be placed as a living room couch. But if you require, it can be used as bed also. If you buy these kind of products, you are not only buying unique trendy home décor but also saving your money. The furniture serves the purpose of two while taking the cost of one product.
5) Contemporary style products – Do not hesitate to buy stylish products even if you are shopping in a budget. Do not pretend that your products are second hand. Contemporary furniture costs much lower than traditional products.
6) Do it yourself - Give your old furniture a personal touch. Decorate with different colors & accessories to give a new trendy look. Recycle your household wastage goods and make them useful for designing your sofa, couch, table etc.
Hope above given tips will be helpful for you. As last minute tips try to maintain these things :
- Try to grab good products from garage sales, local flea markets, consignment stores & thrift stores.
- Always try to pick & move your furniture all by yourself, if you want to save pick up money.
- Always pick up the good quality, do not compromise it for the sake of quantity.