10 Budget-Friendly Interior Design Hacks to Transform Your Home

Making your house feel like a home doesn’t need to break the bank. Here’s ten affordable interior decoration ideas to transform any space.

We’re always on the hunt for cheap interior design hacks. Making your house feel like a home doesn’t need to break the bank – if you’re looking for home decor ideas on a budget, you’re in the right place. We’ve collected a list of ten affordable interior decoration ideas you can use to transform any space.

Choose One Statement Piece

Not only is this kind to your bank account, but having a single statement piece to dominate a room is a really impactful way of organising a space and creating a sense of harmony with your interior decor. For example, this could be an oversized, vibrantly coloured piece of living room furniture, or a striking wall mural in your bedroom. Take it a step further by coordinating the surrounding decor with colours from your statement piece for a more cohesive look.

Upcycle Old Pieces

If you’re going through an interior design revamp and you’ve got a pile of discarded furniture waiting to be cleared out, take a second to reconsider. There are so many cheap and easy ways to breathe new life into unwanted pieces, saving you money, minimising waste, and giving you a chance to get creative. You could cover an old chest of drawers with wallpaper – we’ve found that our bolder wallpapers such as our geometric or floral and trail ranges work great for these projects –  upholster a set of chairs to make them fit in with a fresh theme, repurpose an old door as a new table top, de-frame a piece of art and swap it for a mirror – the possibilities are endless.

Create the Illusion of Height

If searching for simple interior design ideas for small homes on a low budget, try this simple hack to create the illusion of height. Simply painting your skirting boards, walls, and ceiling the same colour really works to elongate the space and blur the line between where the wall ends and the ceiling begins. Be mindful about keeping your furniture on the lower side for even more of a visual impact.

Make a Statement With Mirrors

Decorating your walls can be tricky when you’re on a budget – framed posters and art pieces can quickly add up, especially if you’re trying to stick to one particular theme. Luckily, you can easily find a treasure trove of cheap mirrors hidden in charity shops and markets, and they’re a great way to maximise your space as they reflect light and add depth to a room.

Focus On the Details

Transforming your home doesn’t always mean splashing out on new furniture and fresh fixtures – there are so many cheap and cheerful ways to accessorise with your interior decor. If you’re trying to revitalise a room, hone in on the smaller details that you can switch up for next to nothing; replace door or drawer handles with vintage finds from a charity shop, add a collection of coloured candles to a bare mantlepiece, or drape fairy lights around a bedroom mirror. When it comes to making your home feel more stylish and put together, it’s the little things that make the biggest difference.

Add a Feature Wall

Found a wallpaper you love but don’t want to commit to papering the whole room? Creating a feature wall is a quick and easy way to entirely transform any space. They add a natural focal point to a room, especially with the bolder prints in our conversational range,  and can act as the building blocks to assemble the rest of your decor around, while avoiding the added expense of papering multiple walls. Try picking an accent colour from your feature wall and incorporating that into the rest of the space, or even work backwards – pick out your favourite colour that’s already a strong element of a room’s existing interior design, and find the perfect feature wallpaper to match.

If you want to go even further outside the box, another way to incorporate wallpaper into a room is by papering your door frames, window frames, and furniture, or creating wallpaper borders around the skirting boards. You could even frame different snippets of your favourite designs and hang them up as a cost-effective art display, such as mixing and matching a rainbow of animal-skin prints. Let your personality shine through and have fun with it.

Experiment With Paint

Switching up your style with splashes of paint is an extremely cost-friendly way of adding a touch of colour to a room. Experiment with painting your floorboards, ceiling, or fixtures such as kitchen cabinets and drawers for a striking effect – we have a wide selection of paintable ceiling wallpaper that’s perfect for letting your inner artist run wild.

DIY an Art Piece

You don’t have to break the bank to decorate your home with interesting art pieces, and making your own art doesn’t always involve slaving away over a canvas for hours. Repurpose an old silk scarf, a colourful blanket, or even a charity shop skirt into a stunning piece of art simply by stretching it over a canvas and sticking it into place.

Decorate With Photos

A cheap interior design hack that will never go out of style – simply hang your favourite photos around any room to create a warm, cosy atmosphere. You can find cheap second-hand frames on eBay, in charity shops, at car boot sales – take your time

and enjoy the hunt for the perfect frames, and don’t worry about them being different sizes, shapes or colours. Mismatching your decor is actually a trendy and effective design technique, and can look really effective when done right.

A Touch of Nature

Plants are an extremely affordable way of bringing a sense of life and freshness to your home. Get more for your money with low-maintenance, long-lasting foliage such as spider plants and succulents, or see if any friends have plants they wouldn’t mind gifting you a cutting of that you can then propagate and watch grow. Pair with leaf and tree wallpaper to really transform your space into an earthy utopia.

If you’re looking for more interior design inspiration, check out our stunning collections of quality wallpaper today to find your ideal print.