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Decorate Your house on a Budget

One of the greatest joy in a family's life is when you move in to your dream house. But with the burden of high mortgages, you wonder whether you can afford to decorate your homes to be the way you always pictured it. Beautiful, modern and a warm and cozy place to come to after a hectic and busy day at work.

Here are some tips which will help you to go ahead with your plans to decorate your homes without having to shell out a lot of money.

1. Decide the style you want for your house

It always help if you know before hand what style you would like for your house. It could be contemporary/modern, country style, French country style or the classic Victorian types. This will help to search for furnitures and drapes according to the style. In modern types, minimalist is the key word. In country style, there would be more elements of cowboy hats, wooden tables etc. French windows and frilly pillow covers and Victorian grandeur tables, cupboards, mantle piece and long dining tables would be more suitable for French country and Victorian style.



2. Select the Paint or Wallpapers

A paint can change the whole out look of a room. You can single out on wall and paint it in a color that stands out from the rest. Also according to the style, you can choose the colors. Decide on a wall color to fit the whole look of the room. For Victorian, a rosy pink, or an off-white, country can be anywhere from blue and yellow, to pink and white.

3. Selecting an Art work

Find some good artwork. It isn't as expensive as you may think. You can buy from a retail or craft store, or photocopy images from a book, and frame them. An art work adds character to the room. You can select something that pleases your eyes. There is no point buying art that you do not understand. It might me the most popular, expensive art, but you should stick to something that makes you happy looking at it.



4. Selecting the furnitures

If your current furniture already matches your style, then you must avoid buying new furnitures and just purchase some new slip covers, they come in all different styles and patterns. Buy cheap rugs and draperies. You can save a lot of money by purchasing solid color rugs and draperies that are in your colors, and places like Wal-Mart carry them.

5. Selecting the Lightings

A lighting though is the last thing to spend on, is the most important factor in decorating a house. It can highlight all the attractive features and also the flaws in a room. SO you have to be very sensible as to where you want to fix your lightings. Inappropriate mix of lighting, color and furniture can make a very costly combination look ugly. You can use an antique lampshade to place it at a corner of a room or go for small lightings on the ceilings. Use a higher number of weak light sources instead of a lesser number of strong light sources.

6. Alter things you can use

A lighting though is the last thing to spend on, is the most important factor in decorating a house. It can highlight all the
Alter the things you already have. A black lamp may not go with a nautical theme. But instead of throwing it away, you can paint it, using spray paint or textured paints, found in arts and crafts stores. Clocks, coat racks, vases(using glass paint) shelves, bookends, even baskets and furniture can be transformed by paint.

7. Give your rooms a welcoming and warm effect

Toss some pillows and a blanket on your couch, to give your guests a comfortable feeling when they walk through your door. Paint a design you like on the walls using stencils and stamps. Choose lighting in harmony with the mood. Bright ones for modern and dim ones for classic.

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Solawood Flower Basket

Sola wood is a naturally obtained material. It is Tapioca peel, treated for craft purpose with which variety of things can be made.  It is available in the shops where craft materials are sold. Here we are making a flower basket, a very attractive piece of art.

Materials Used

   1.      Sola wood - about 20 rolls
   2.      Thermocol - 1/2 meter
   3.      Hard Board -2 1/2 meters
   4.      Cloth - Cotton/Satin/Felt/ Velvet
   5.      Glue ( Fevicol)
   6.      Flower Making thread
   7.      Scissors, carbon, tracing, design, cutter

First choose the design you want to work.

   1. Trace the design onto the thermocol using tracing paper and carbon paper.

   2. Draw the outline of the basket on the thermocol using a pen or pencil.
   3. With a thermocol cutter cut the thermocol through the outline carefully.
   4. Once the cutting is over, remove all the chipped out portions.
   5. Now your basket on thermocol is ready. Keep it aside.
   6. Take your hard board. Cover it with the black or any dark colour cloth. Cover it properly and stretch out or bring the four sides to the back side of the hardboard and paste them to the board using glue( Fevicol).
   7. Your hard board should be of appropriate size, so that your thermocol design can be properly stuck to the board.

   8.  Now paste the cut thermocol basket on the hardboard. Then take the sola wood. Press it slightly without pressure so as to make it smooth. Please do not press it hard, so that it becomes too flimsy. Now you have to do the 'weaving' design on the thermocol basket.

To make the Basket : Cut the sola wood into strips of even length and width say, approximately 2cm x 2cms. Each piece can be stuck on the design of the basket  lengthwise and breadth wise.

Another method of making a basket :  To weave the design of the basket :- Cut the sola wood into strips of even length. Paste the strips at the top edge and side of the basket and leave it loose and weave alternately. After  weaving, paste the edges to the thermocol and chop excess sola wood pieces. Sides of the basket should be covered neatly with the sola wood.   Now the basket is ready.

 To make the Roses:- Cut the sola wood in the shape of petals. Cut the petals of 3 different sizes approximately 200 -300  in nos.

Take a small petal. Roll it and tie it at the bottom with the flower making thread. Arrange 5-7 petals around it and again tie with the thread. Now the flower is ready.

Make around 50-60 flowers of different sizes. Since the solawood is fragile, care should be taken while tying with the thread.

To make Leaf:- Carefully cut and shape 20-30 leaves with the sola wood. 

First arrange the flowers and leaves on the top portion , just above the basket.  Once you are satisfied with the arrangement, paste them onto the positions using glue (fevicol).

Arrangement and pasting should be done in such a manner that it should look as if the flowers are arranged from within the basket.
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Decorative sitcks

Materials Required:    
        

• Sticks     -     You can take Broom sticks"tinke wali chadu"
• Brown tape            
• Artificial small Flowers    -     Like tissue cloth 'kali',beads,Petals
• Fabric colors     -     Prefer take bright colors)
• Beads-     -     Different kind (take those beads that easily came in brooms sticks)
• Fevicol            
• Brush            

Method:

   1. Take broomstick; start rolling brown tape on the stick and tie up artificial flowers with that brown tape.
   2. Do above step again.5 times is enough.
   3. Roll down tape with rest of stick.

This completes 1 stick. Other kind of stick is

   1. Color broom sticks with different colors.
   2. When they dry, put beads in them (3-4beads is enough) using fevicol.

      * Give space between flowers and beads
      * If you use silver bead on top, it look beautiful

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Paper Vases

Items Required:
Any waste paper like newspaper or old used	-	1 paper
or
note book pages	-	about 20 to 30 pages
Medium sized Balloon	-	1 no.
White Glue	-	10gms

Method:

Blow the balloon to the size of a muskmelon. Tear the pages into strips of 2inches in width and about 8-10 inches in length. Mix the glue with 3tbsp of water and keep it in a bowl. Now dip each strip of paper in glue and spread it over the bottom part of the balloon, keep placing one strip over another to form the shape of a bowl or vase. Keep it in the sun to dry for 24hrs; break the balloon and there u have a nice shaped paper bowl/vase. Cut the edges of the bowl paint and decorate it to your style. You use it to keep dry flowers or even fruits if it is a big bowl.  Alter the size of your bowl according to the size of the balloon.
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Table Coasters

Ingredients:
Ivory sheet	-	12cm X 12cm
Satin ribbons	-	pink and golden color

Method:

Take an ivory sheet of size 12cm X 12cm.Take satin ribbons in different colures i.e pink and golden and cut the ribbons 14cm each. Now paste pink ribbons on one side of the back of the ivory sheet and golden ribbons on the other side. Now weave the design in plain weave. And complete the coaster by sticking the other ends on the rest f the sides. Now take another ivory sheet of same size and stick it on the wrong side of the coaster. Cover the coaster with cellophane paper. Your coaster is ready

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Wall Hanging made of waste Bangle

Materials Required :
         

• Bangles  (same or multi colored)    -     3 glass 
• Picture card
• Pen
• A pair of scissors
• Fevicol
• Strip of paper
• Piece of wool or ribbon            

Procedure:

Select some picture cards or greeting card. Place the bangle over the picture and mark the outer boundary with a pen. Cut along the line so that you get a round shaped picture. Apply glue on the outer margin and paste the glass bangle. Make three such things. Now place them one above another and stick the paper strip at the back. Attach wool or ribbon for hanging. Wall hanging is ready.

Pen Stand made of Bangle

Materials:

Glass/Plastic bangles, Thin Cardboard, 3D liner of your choice, Glue, 2 or 3 Pen

Method:

1. Place bangles one above the other by gluing it. Let it dry for 1-2 hours.
2. Apply 3D liner of any color over it evenly.
3. Colored stones/Beads can be placed on the 3D liner before it dries. 
4. Glue on cardboard sheet and paste the 3D coated bangle stand.
5. Now your pen stand is ready for use.

Wall hanging made of CD 2

Materials Required :

CD

Fabric colours

Satin ribbon

Decorative pins

Decorative buttons

 
Method :

Waste cd's can be painted with fabric colours with your own patterns and designs. Three such cds can be pasted one by one on a satin ribbon. Some decorative pins or decorative buttons can be pasted on the bottom portion of the ribbon. It can be either hanged on the wall or two decorated cds pasted together can be hanged in the car....

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