15 easy ways to refresh the interior of any apartment

Maria Pletnev

Author YouTube-Channel about cozy home and Ambassador Avito.

1. Change lamps and lamp

Old-fashioned lamps or standing in them dusty dim bulb kill interior. Stylish floor lamp beside the sofa, large and bright shade for overhead lighting, futuristic table lamp immediately make the room look more modern. A new light bulb - brighter. Choose warm or cold light under the shades in the room. With it you can spend Zoning: single lamp for recreation, wallpapers and so on.

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The modern interior is very refreshing vintage light - crystal chandeliers, floor lamps from the double 70, wall-style Stalinist empire. Sometimes you can only use the ceiling, but the very foundation for a modern take chandeliers. In our apartment I had to make friends with the Soviet crystal chandelier with the rest of the interior. Came the idea: to purchase a second one on Avito. It turned out very harmonious. But in the history of things important not to overdo it. For a room or small apartment will be enough of one large and one small items.

2. Put vases of flowers and herbs

Fresh flowers freshen the interior. Get a beautiful vases and do not let them gather dust until a birthday or holidays, which give flowers. Buy now and then do the flowers for the house. Your apartment will immediately look more colorful and floral aromas appear in the room. Refresh the interior of the kitchen herbs help: Head of rosemary, basil, thyme, peppermint and other culinary plants.

3. Hang the board for notes

Board for notes - a useful thing that helps to leave reminders for home and do not forget your own to-do list. She looks great and adds comfort. Apart from the notes will be able to pin concert tickets, vacation photos, baby pictures and different cute little things.

4. Refurbish an old cabinet

If a rented apartment are old cases, engage in their update. Nazhdachkoy remove remnants of the old paint and varnish. If the tree looks good in itself - treat oiled. It will give shade, but will retain the wood texture. If the box of chipboard, paint it completely. By the way, the drawers can be painted inside - cute and stylish look colorful. If the furniture is not all, you can buy a second-hand wardrobe and transform it.

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Professionals take for the restoration of large sum of money, but it can be done at home. The first method: remove the top layer of varnish or paint sander or sandpaper, then paint furniture paint for interior work, stain, color varnish, wax or oil process. There is another option, it is easier and less expensive: do not hide, cover the adhesive primer for better adhesion with the surface of the paint (especially for repainting from dark to bright), further - chalky paint and varnish finishing layer or wax. Restoration of furniture - a time consuming process, but it's worth it, because it is furnished with a rich history. Unfortunately, I was on the grandparents have nothing left, but I bought the old furniture Avito and in antique shops.

5. Update your rugs and carpets

Older trampled carpets - minus one hundred to the interior of the house. And yet they infest dust mites and all kinds of nasty insects. Get rid of the old carpet to vote may be that the room will look better without them, if, for example, paint or simply refinish the floor wax. Swap rugs in the bathroom obzavedites cozy rug beside the bed, on which will fall after awakening.

6. Decorate the walls of unusual items

The walls are not necessarily decorate paintings or photographs in the frame. You can hang a beautiful hat, a guitar or a ukulele, a collage of the plates, and bought in travel, garlands with flashlights, wicker panels - the choice is limited only by your interest and imagination.

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Now very popular eclecticism - a mixture of styles. So for wall decor can use everything: straw plates, oriental carpets and vintage grandmother, the composition of the small mirrors of different shapes. The children's room is very stylish and comfortable clothes looks at the small wooden hangers. The decor of the important idea. For example, in our living room, I hung up the vintage photos of our area and the house is furnished in a mat. These pictures I wanted to show that once Moscow was different. Think about what would like to thank you - the apartment can tell the host more than his style of dress.

7. Pick a beautiful textiles

The beauty of the interior textile can be achieved by unity. Buy interesting tablecloth or napkin under the plate. Throw in the new sofa cushions. Hang towels in the bathroom beautiful. Buy a new bed linen and cozy knit blanket. Textile things do not necessarily have to be the same color - they must be combined with each other.

8. Color tile in the kitchen and in the bathroom

Old tile is not necessary to remove if it is good. It can be painted. To this end, suitable paint for rooms with high humidity. Old tiles will need a good clean up, to walk sandpaper and primed for it. Samu paint can be applied uniformly to the entire tile, and you can create patterns using masking tape. The end result is fixed, for example, aqueous acrylic lacquer.

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Paint the tile in the bathroom can be white - it will expand the space. You will need an adhesive primer, paint and chalk water and polyurethane varnish. Freshen the room to help a new mirror or shutter. There is an interesting trick: Hang a double cornice and two curtains. Outside the normal tissue, the right style, and on the side of the soul - waterproof. The interior of bathroom order is important. It will help to maintain the basket for storage: cosmetic jars go in them with open shelves.

9. change the curtains

Curtains - the easiest way to express your favorite style in the interior. Laconic white, beige or gray curtains add a touch of Scandinavia. Curtains of bright colors with prints and drawings - Caribbean style element. Blinds bring the rigor and the vertical effect and create more high ceiling. There are many different design options windows: roller blinds, roman blinds fabric, semi-transparent or, on the contrary, the blackout - do not let the light.

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When we moved into a new apartment, all went to finance the purchase of food. And the curtains of my dreams and remained on the photo of a French site. When I'm tired at night to look at the neighbors, I bought the most budget curtains, cut off the top hinge on them, took handmade dowel store and hinges made of artificial leather, which is found in the attic of his parents - even my grandfather used it for upholstery chair. Over time, tiebacks of leather straps, I have them a long time to collect. So we managed to get a beautiful curtains and save.

10. Hang shelves or racks place

Stylish shelf - interior decoration, which is good, and more of its functionality. But do not lean heavily on it all at once, that is bad. Then it ceases to be an element of decor. Nice on a shelf climbing plants, vases, a few books, which can be placed vertically or stacked, framed pictures. Shelves should be different from the color of the walls. Another option - a rack with several shelves on which you can also arrange various nice pieces.

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Interior details are important, but the house should not be turned into a museum. Use one or two accent items that will attract the attention, and let the rest of their complement. Do not be afraid to mix vintage things and something ultramodern. For example, the kitchen under a concrete loft-style and vintage wall grinder, which could twist your great-grandmother. Draw inspiration at flea markets and in high-end interior design stores, including new directories IKEA and retro furniture Avito. It will help shape the taste and find the most suitable options.

11. Paint the door

Making it unnecessary to big renovation with the installation of new doors, try to return to the old life. Remove from them the paint with sandpaper and pick up a new coating. For the unity of style is better to do all the same door. It looks good in the interior door in white or natural colors: Wenge, the chestnut.

12. Hang a mirror in a picture frame

Mirrors add room space, and their showy framing - style. You can buy the most simple inexpensive mirror and put it in a beautiful frame for a picture. You can buy ready-made frame or make your own. For example, the curly plastic panels, painted via spray, wood skirting boards and other materials.

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Make the room more spacious, you can use bright walls and minimum furniture. Visually increase the height of the ceiling curtains help: hang the curtain as close to the ceiling and curtains themselves should be at least 3 cm below the floor. This method will erase the boundary between the floor and the wall. Vertical stripes on the walls, curtains, paintings and even textiles also "lift" ceiling. It can draw on their own - you need only masking tape and paint residues. Another design technique - paint the ceiling and upper walls 20 cm in white color. So you visually shall erase the boundary between the wall and ceiling. Themselves walls in this case, better to paint in gray, beige or contrasting color.

13. Update the headboard

On the soft headboard is possible to change the upholstery. Wood - updated with paint or varnish. If you do not have a headboard, it can be done with more pillows, wooden plates, cloth, decorated with a plywood board. In fact, at the head can put anything - from tree branches to the mirrors.

14. Change Kitchen Apron

If you can not change the old kitchen, the room will help to refresh the new apron. He also protects the wall from splashes of fat or juice. It can be ordered from the dense glass panel, natural or artificial stone, ceramic, plastic. The role of the apron can play and normal tiles - Put it on the countertop space before the start of the lockers. If the material enables old apron, you can just paint.

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Sometimes it is enough to change the handles on the kitchen, that the kitchen was transformed. Good refreshing new interior textiles. Replace the towels on the table, lay down the track, and in the cooking zone lay on the floor mat of straw or ethnic: Boho style is popular. Cosiness add things made of natural materials such as wood bracket, boards, dishes, brush. To order on the table, you can make the composition of what you use every day: use cutting boards, forks, spoons, knives, oil, spices, coffee, tea. For example, I poured the detergent in a beautiful jar. Suitable transparent dark to black pump from gels and soaps. For decorative open shelves using vintage copper, glass or enamel bowl. Modernize Soviet enamel can be labeled with black paint through a stencil.

15. Replace the sofa and pillows

The old sofa can be a reliable framework, but faded frayed upholstery. Not to buy a new one, drag the old. However, this is available on some models. If you're unlucky, you'll have to buy a new one. But it's worth it: the replacement of the sofa great changing room. A small pillow can help add comfort.