Budget-friendly décor ideas

Decorating your home can be an exciting experience for a proud homeowner. And you do not need to rob the bank to do it. With a flurry of budget-friendly options, there’s a cool way of working your way around your interior décor. All you have to do is plan your budget and put a décor plan in place to transform your beautiful home into an inviting and warm one.

Personality plan

Your home should reflect your family’s personality. This means it should display your nature and characteristics in the theme and décor aspects. So, if you and your family have a gregarious personality, a casual theme that exudes bonhomie and friendliness is your ticket to super cool décor.

If you are a pure Indian at heart, it’s so much easier to work the theme around India’s diverse culture and infuse those rich rustic décor elements with panache.

For a well-travelled family constantly on wanderlust, it’s a wonderful feeling to bring the world into your home.

Here’s how you can do either or all of the above on a simple and wise budget.

Go Boho

Boho is short for the word Bohemian. The Cambridge dictionary mentions Boho to mean a person who is interested in artistic and unusual things, for example, art, music, or literature and lives in an informal way that ignores the usually accepted ways of behaving.

So, then, if you and your family love to explore novelty and believe in doing things the unconventional way, Boho is the way to go in your interior décor theme.

For your living room furniture, choose light wicker or cane 3 seater and complementary side chairs with a centre coffee table with a glass top. Leave the natural fawn colour of the bamboo or paint them in any hues you desire. The best part about cane furniture is you can change the colours whenever you desire, as a great DIY (do it yourself) family project with the whole family turning painters! Fun idea or what?

Another great scope cane furniture offers are in the cushions. You can change the covers to match or contrast with the drapes in the room.

The best part about cane furniture is that it’s lighter on your pocket and on transport when you’re moving into your new home.

Indian at heart

Indian furniture is intricately carved with authenticity by rural craftsmen. They perfectly embrace the natural imperfections in the wood that actually makes each piece stunning. Go in for authentic traditional pieces with curved armrests and legs, carvings and inlay work in metal. There’s a vast range of understated Indian furniture like wooden chests, footstools, low sofa sets, and jharokhas to choose from.

Your best bet is terracotta, the eternal Indian clay marvel that graces and uplifts home décor in an instant. The natural hue of the clay is the perfect accompaniment to any Indian décor theme, whether it’s from Rajasthan, Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka or Tamil Nadu. And what’s more, it’s available anywhere in the country and is one of the most affordable of décor artefacts.

Don’t forget to add that traditional jhoola or swing as a focal point in the living room or balcony. The kids will love it and so will the elders.

Another enchanting and fun décor element to not miss to include in your home décor is the happy string puppets from Rajasthan or Tamil Nadu. Hang them up from the drapery rods or mount them up on the wall, they’ll add so much vivacity and colour to your home! Folk art is so elevating to the house and to your mood.

A low diwan or bench topped with a compact cushioned mattress complemented with cylindrical bolster cushions called can recreate the typical royal Rajasthani theme of erstwhile Havelis.

Handcrafted with love

Since India is home to handicrafts, there is a large variety of artefacts to be used to add the desi charm to your home decor. The choices include pottery items, diyas, leather puppets, decorative boxes, brass lamps, pots, a wide range of paintings – Rajasthani miniature paintings, gold-leafed paintings of Tanjore, to the ever-popular Madhubani art, and so on. While large paintings serve as centrepieces, you can also create a gallery wall with a number of smaller pieces.

Natural fabrics

Our rich Indian history speaks of beautifully designed fabrics. From mesmerising silk to calm cotton or Khadi and even tender jute, what a vast collection of fine fabrics are fashioned so affordably. And, they can be used in various forms too – as bed sheets, table runners and long beautifully layered window drapes to carpets and heavy cotton rugs called dhurries.

Your home, your world

The scope to decorate your home is endless, more so if you are a frequent traveller. Make your lovely home the canvas to the world, Indian or international and add each element from time to time, instead of doing the whole works at one time.

Bring home the curios and souvenirs from your travels and beautify each room with their innate charm. Create a display cabinet with each shelf depicting a continent or country and holding the curios from that region.

Host a gallery of pictures from your travels and vacation on one focal wall with up-lights or down-lights throwing a warm glow around it.

Fridge magnets are a great way to enliven the kitchen or the children’s room.

As you put your décor plan in place, remember to fix separate budgets for each aspect of the furniture, seating, drapes, cabinetry, and so on.

Happy decorating!

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