Spruce Up Your Décor With Spicy Cushions
Decorating on a shoestring often means compromising and living with outdated styles and colors - but savvy decorators use little touches and tricks to spruce up an old decorating scheme. Adding or changing cushions, scatter rugs and colorful accents can change the whole look and feel of your tired living or bedroom décor in minutes - with a minimal investment. Just take a look at the way that you can use cushions to spruce up your favorite rooms and make them fresh and new.
Toss a few cushions on a sofa!
Throw pillows are a time-honored way to liven up tired color schemes. For an imminently changeable living room setting, choose your major furnishings in neutral colors - black, blue, white, beige. Pick another neutral for big things like carpeting - and then have a party with cushions, accent pieces and wall hangings. Feel like switching from an icy contemporary feel to a warm and welcoming rustic Southwestern theme? Toss a sofa cover over the couch, and pile it high with fringed cushions in Aztec and Indian designs. For even more panache, add a couple of enormous floor cushions in a similar design for extra seating. Total cost? Less than $50 for a whole new fashion look.
Warm up to a romantic bedroom with feminine cushions on the bed.
There's no better way to warm up your bedroom for romance than with a lavish pile of lacy, fluffy cushions and pillows. Play with shape and color to get the look and feel you want. Red satin, heart-shaped cushions are romantic and a little bit on the spicy side. Pure white bolster pillows whisper innocence and purity. If you want a sophisticated, elegant romantic style, choose silk shantung and glossy satin in subtle shades of a color that harmonizes with your bedroom décor. If you hit the sales right, you can have a whole new bedroom look in less than an hour for $40 or less.
Make a casual statement with floor cushions.
Floor sitting is the ultimate in casual comfort - as long as there are comfy cushions between the hard floor and your soft bottom. Soften the décor in any room by adding some oversized floor cushions to add extra seating. You can find floor cushions in many styles and colors to coordinate with your room's decorating scheme. Easy care polyolefin is one of the best materials to choose - especially if you pick cushions with zip off covers. Just zip them off and toss them in the washer whenever they need a freshening up.