10 Ways To Give Your Home A Refresh Without Spending Any Money

Everyone deserves to live in a space they love, but does that mean you have to make it perfect? Do you need all the latest trends, the highest quality finishes, and a bottomless wallet for renovations? No. What you need is a new perspective and a few simple changes that refresh your home without having to spend money.

Rearrange your furniture and reconsider how you use different rooms to better fit your current lifestyle. Change things up by swapping decor with a friend or using something from one part of your house in another part. Declutter and deep clean, maximize natural light, and set up new habits that encourage you to use your home in new ways.

Don’t get frustrated because you can’t update your kitchen or your house doesn’t look like your best friend’s recently upgraded abode. Instead, when you’re starting to get restless inside your four walls, try these tweaks to see your home in a whole new light.

10 Ways To Refresh Your Home Without Spending Money

1. Rearrange The Furniture

You don’t have to buy new furniture to get a new look. Instead, rearrange what you have. Quite often, a new layout can make a room feel fresh and more functional. Think about how you use the room and see if setting up the pieces in a new configuration makes more sense.

For example, if you entertain often and realize people tend to gravitate to certain areas for conversation, set up seating areas in those spots. If you use a room for multiple activities, like watching movies, a home office, and game night, set up zones for these tasks.

Float large pieces off the wall to create more intimate areas. Anchor different zones with rugs. Position a table near each seating space to give guests a place to set their cocktails.

Try something new, and you might be surprised how much it makes your home come alive. Worst-case scenario? You simply put it back the way it was or try, try again.

2. Deep Clean Your Home

Cleaning isn’t likely your favorite thing to do, but it’s one of the best ways to make your home feel and look better without spending a dime. But don’t just dust and mop and call it a day.

When you’re itching to give your home a refresh, a good, solid deep clean works wonders. It makes everything feel fresher and brighter.

So, no matter what time of year it is, treat your house to some serious spring cleaning. Plus, a clean house is good for your well-being, making you feel happier and less stressed. 

3. Declutter Ruthlessly

Whether you declutter your house in one day or you do it methodically over a few months, just start. Many people’s frustrations with their homes stem from their copious amounts of stuff. 

When you have so much clutter piled up that you can’t even think straight, it’s no wonder you don’t feel at peace. It becomes a struggle to find an empty chair to read a book or push all the piles of laundry off the bed so you can take a nap.

It’s even dicey when you walk across the room, never knowing if a rogue toy car on the floor will take you down within seconds. Take the time to pare down, get rid of excess stuff, and organize the rest. Your home will feel more open and as if it can breathe more easily (you will, too).

4. Shop Your House

A few new items to freshen up your vanity or restyle the bookshelves can help give your home a refresh. But you don’t have to spend money to do it. Shop your house instead. Go room to room and see what items you have that might look better elsewhere.

Perhaps you even have a few heirloom pieces or other odds and ends packed away in the attic or in bins in the basement. Why not give them a chance at being a prized display item or your latest centerpiece? When you move something to a new location, it can give the item and the room a whole new look and feel.

5. Rethink How You Use Different Rooms

Are you maintaining a formal dining room because you host Thanksgiving dinner each year? Do you have an entire room devoted to a home office, but you inevitably end up doing work in a corner of the family room?

Make your house work for you at maximum capacity. Think about how you really use rooms and the types of rooms you wish you had. Can you reconfigure how you use spaces to better fit your current lifestyle?

For example, a standing screen and some organization in the family room corner give you the workspace you need. Then, the former home office becomes a perfect playroom for the kids. Or maybe you get the home library you’ve always wanted. You complete it with a desk that converts to a dining table for that one day a year you host a holiday dinner.

6. Change Your Habits

A home isn’t just about its appearance and the items inside it. It’s also about how you use it. Start to create rituals in your home that help give it some new life and new feelings.

For example, do you normally make your coffee right before rushing out of the house for work? Instead, wake up 15 minutes earlier and enjoy your coffee in the cozy chair by your bedroom window.

Instead of doom-scrolling for hours at night, turn off the electronics and read for an hour in your study. You’ll start to see your home differently.

7. Trade Decor With Friends And Family

You don’t have to buy something new to get something new to you. See if your friends or family have any decor or furniture they’re getting rid of, and if they’d be up for swapping. Trade them some of the items you plan to declutter.

You can host a furniture swap to get even more options, but it doesn’t have to be elaborate. It could be as simple as passing a vase along to a friend who happens to be getting rid of a quirky lamp.

8. Let In More Light

Lighting is a magical force when it comes to redesigning a space. You can open the drapes, let in the sunlight, and the whole room is suddenly different.

Assess your existing lighting situation and see how you can maximize light. You could get sheer curtains, keep them open, place mirrors across from a window, or add more artificial light to a room.

9. Assess Old And Forgotten DIY Projects

If you’re a glutton for home improvement projects, it’s time to assess your unfinished business. If you’re not going to complete certain projects, can you use the materials for something else?

Do you have leftover paint that could give new life to a worn-out table? How about some forgotten cabinet pulls that could give your nightstands an updated look?

10. Create New Art

Change up the artwork in your house by creating some of your own masterpieces. If you have kids, get them in on the action with a family painting party or frame some of their existing creations.

Make a collage with fabric scraps, print out your favorite photos in black-and-white and use them in a gallery wall. Frame old wallpaper samples or vintage placemats.

Turn lace tablecloths into tapestries. Create a paint spatter print using all the leftover sample jars of paint from when you tried out color swatches in the bedroom.

The point is, art is what you create, and anything you create is original and much more exciting than cookie-cutter prints from a big box store. You don’t have to spend any money to make something exciting and beautiful. 

Make Your Home Into Something New Without Spending A Cent

No money, no problem. You don’t have to spend anything to give your home a new look or a different feel. If you’re pining for something new or simply want to give your house a refresh, work with what you have.

Shop your home and try rearranging your furniture to fashion new spaces that fit your life. Create rooms that encourage you to live the life you want to live. Reinforce these new spaces by adopting habits to go with them, using your home in new ways.

When you come home, you’ll feel like you’ve made major changes, even though it’s just simple tweaks. You don’t need any money. Imagination and a new perspective on your space and how you live in it are excellent ways to redo your home without ever opening your wallet.

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