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13<br />
Mini makeover gives<br />
living areas a lift<br />
Don’t let heading into winter give you the<br />
blues. Think of all the things you love about<br />
the cooler seasons and give your home a<br />
mini-makeover to make it the comfortable,<br />
warm and welcoming home you desire.<br />
Revamping your living and dining areas<br />
will give your lived-in spaces a fresh new<br />
feel. Unlike a renovation, a revamp (or<br />
face lift) need not involve a huge financial<br />
outlay. In fact it is an extremely budgetfriendly<br />
way of giving your rooms a new<br />
look as you can add and subtract pieces as<br />
the pay packet allows.<br />
Moving slowly over the next couple of<br />
months is an advantage. If you don’t, after<br />
all, like that bright pink cushion you had<br />
planned to build your new look around,<br />
you can change direction without having<br />
spent too much money. Another advantage<br />
of moving slowly to build your new look is<br />
the time it allows you to hunt for just the<br />
right pieces, or wait for the sales to offer<br />
you bargains. Also have a look around your<br />
home for items you could recover, paint or,<br />
with a little tweaking, find new purpose for.<br />
Start your facelift by deciding what sort of<br />
look you’re going to aim for.<br />
Browse magazines and the internet for<br />
ideas, check paint colour charts for the<br />
latest colour options. Visit furnishing stores<br />
and take note of the different display areas -<br />
how do they balance colour and texture?<br />
Then find an item you would like to<br />
build your new look around. This could<br />
be a treasure you’ve had for a while or<br />
something that you covet and have spotted<br />
in a shop.<br />
Your next step is to sit down with<br />
pencil & paper & plan. List what items<br />
can be changed and how, and what can’t.<br />
Think colour, shades and tones and<br />
complementary colours, think texture,<br />
think pattern, think outside the square.<br />
Think fabric, wood, plastic, old and new.<br />
That comfy old chair doesn’t need to be<br />
replaced.<br />
Buy some furnishing fabric and recover<br />
it (or have it recovered).What items have<br />
other family members put aside because<br />
they no longer need them but they’re ‘too<br />
good to throw out’?<br />
Once you’ve got some sort of plan<br />
mapped out you can start work on creating<br />
your new look.<br />
Spend time browsing the shops to see<br />
what is available in your chosen colour<br />
- candles, photo frames, vases, pot plant<br />
holders, wallpaper, fabric, large items and<br />
small.<br />
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