Want to transform your house without breaking the bank? Discover high-impact, budget-friendly DIY home projects that can elevate your space and reflect your personal style using simple and clever design choices.
It is possible to create high-impact design choices in your home on a budget. Over the years, many different kinds of design choices have been made that create a high impact look without spending a lot of money. Here are 10 tips to make the most significant high-impact, most budget-friendly changes in your house, starting today.
1. Paint Doors an Accent Color
Painting doors an accent color can give a bland and boring space all the life it needs. This is a super affordable yet high impact change. It is a budget friendly way to add more color and a little bit more injection of design and style into a room. Doors are larger surface spaces. Creating contrast with an accent color on doors or built-ins makes a high impact look.
2. Accent Ceilings
Accent ceilings have been trending. Paint can completely change the mood and the vibe. An accent color on the ceiling really adds that high impact look and feel, and a designer touch. Bringing the ceiling color down on the wall a little bit gives the illusion of taller ceilings. There is a lot that can be done with paint to create a different vibe, a different mood, or just a different feeling in the space.
3. Stack Baseboards
Stacking baseboards is a genius idea. A lot of older homes’ baseboards are not cute. To elevate a baseboard, stack another piece of molding or trim on top and paint it the same exact color. Add some caulking between them if needed to make them feel more cohesive. Multiple pieces of molding or trim can be stacked. This is a great hack to keep in mind.
4. Use Molding Creatively
Use molding to your advantage and really think outside of the box on how the different pieces of molding can be used. Consider the little corner pieces that you can find as well. Molding gives you that high impact luxury feel without costing too much. Once this was all painted together, it totally gave the look that this was completely custom or even original to the home.
5. Create Designs with Painter’s Tape
Use painter’s tape to create designs before going in and painting. In a previous apartment, painter’s tape was used on the underside of an arch to create a striped border. Stripes are a classic print that will never go out of style. After painting over the top of it and pulling off the tape, it revealed an almost wallpaper look. The impact that it created was far more than the money spent on it. Adding stripes or a little detail design is a great way to add a little bit more interest before going in and painting it.
6. Layering Lighting
Layering lighting creates a different Ambiance and a different mood. These can be used at other times of days and for different types of things. If there is an outlet on the wall and you want to install sconces or ceiling lights, it will be much more cost-effective. The room feels like a hotel. The overhead light is not turned on at all at night. Only the side lit nightstand lights are on. It creates such an Ambiance and a mood. Thinking about your lighting and layering in an additional option or two is a great way to add more impact. It could be even something along the lines of a table lamp or floor lamp that just gives you more options and versatility to your lighting.
7. DIY Artwork
A lot of expensive art looks like it was handmade. Creating your own DIY artwork is always a great idea. Large canvas art pieces can be framed out in some 1×2 pieces of wood. Creating your own piece of art is a great way to get large scale art for an entryway, a living room, or a bedroom at a fraction of the price point.
8. Add Plants
The finishing element that makes a room shine is always a plant. That little bit of organic and that little bit of nature just brings a room to life. Utilize Facebook Marketplace to find a gorgeous plant. There are a lot of people getting rid of houseplants. There are a lot of great great large scale plants on Facebook Marketplace that you could find for such a great price point. They are going to create the biggest impact in your home. A plant just adds so much mood and movement to the space. It almost looks sculptural. It added a breath of fresh air to the room.
9. Refinish Furniture
Refinishing furniture is always a good idea.
10. Swap Out Light Fixtures
Swapping out light fixtures can create high impact in a space extremely easily. Swapping out the light fixture completely transformed the dining room. A light fixture is like the jewelry of a room. It’s like the focal point when you walk in. It is what you see. If there’s one thing to splurge on, it would be a light fixture because it really is the focal point of any single room.
To wrap up, these are some of the most inexpensive but most high impact ways to transform a space. Hopefully one or two of these will be useful when you go to design your next space, or if you go to transform your bedroom, or to help a friend out with theirs.
