Budget home décor: design ideas and tips for your home

Choosing the furnishings for your home can be fun and inspiring: it always marks the start of something new, but it can prove difficult if money is tight. Furniture, accessories and decorative pieces can be very expensive, but with a few tips and tricks it is possible to furnish your home tastefully on a budget. There are plenty of ways to get a designer home for next to nothing: you can transform and reuse objects, shop online and give free rein to your creativity. In this new Pixtury guide you will find lots of affordable décor ideas that will let you keep your dream home within reach. We will also suggest a range of images that you can turn into sophisticated, original prints and canvas wall art!

1. Ideas and tips for budget furniture online

If the only thing that springs to mind when you think of furniture is Ikea, you risk draining your home of personality and ending up with the same wardrobes, beds and sofas as your friends and relatives. Think about it: who doesn't have at least one Billy bookcase at home? Almost everyone these days. There are many alternatives that let you be a little more daring while still saving money, such as online furniture shops. One well-stocked shop is Dammi Design, a furniture outlet where you can find reproductions of the most famous names in design at great prices. For lovers of unbranded design there is Muji, which offers a huge range of elegant, refined items. Finally, on Home24 you will find a vast choice of quality, low-cost items for every need.

In our collection you will find many photographic prints that are perfect for completing furniture bought online. Here are a few suggestions.

2. Creative upcycling is the watchword

One way to furnish on a budget is to upcycle old objects, which has become a very popular design trend. How many times have you broken a coffee cup and thrown away the whole set? From now on you'll know how to reuse them! Espresso cups can be turned into charming little flowerpots by adding a little soil and planting a small plant in them. Plastic bottles or painted, decorated tins can also be used as planters. One object that has become an icon of eco-friendly design is the pallet. It can be painted, decorated or left unfinished. It's on trend and will give your home a cheap & chic style. You can use it as a coffee table in the living room, as a planter in the garden or as a bed base. Its possible uses are endless, so let your imagination run wild! Another object well suited to creative upcycling is the tyre. Stacked and painted, tyres can be used as a large planter. You can draw and write on them with a brush, and the result will be highly original and give your garden personality. Here are some nature prints and landscape wall art that suit upcycled furnishings.

3. A few home décor tips

Once you have chosen your furniture and reused your old objects, all that is left is to think about home décor. The Pixtury collection of photographic prints will dress your walls with colour and imagination in a few simple steps: choose the photo you like, decide on the size that suits your needs, select the print medium from our high-quality materials and you're done! Your print will be delivered to your door within a few days.

Another way to decorate your home is decoupage. You can transform old chairs, chests of drawers, shoe cabinets and much more with this technique, which lets you revamp furniture you have grown tired of or were planning to throw away. Floral motifs for a shabby chic style or soft shades to decorate bedrooms. Once you have mastered the technique, you will be able to create a whole host of personalised accessories. Here are some flower prints you can use for the purpose.

4. Making the most of natural light

Lighting is everything. Light can transform and enhance a space; it matters, and it has beneficial effects on people. A room with little natural light can feel oppressive and be bad for your health. Choose light curtains that don't block the light and try to make the most of natural light, which will bring depth and airiness to your rooms. LED lighting is extremely useful when decorating the home because, as well as being very versatile, it offers big energy savings. Use it to light forgotten corners of your home and to highlight a decorative feature such as a picture or a photographic print.

Wall colour plays a very important role in lighting. Choose a light colour to make rooms look bigger, and brighter colours to fill a sparsely decorated wall and bring colour to a room. Did you find this article interesting? Then share it on social media. And remember that all the art prints featured in this article are for sale in our Gallery.