Fast and Fabulous Quick Changes for Your Space!
Change your space in under 20 minutes! See your place go from frump to fabulous!
The quick and easy, cheap and cheerful changes you'll find here at Jazz it up! will give your environment that pick-me-up you want to give it. Some of these decorating tips are easy and others require the odd calculation. Some might take two or three steps. Some are quite elegant and others are Funky Chic with a touch of gypsy here and there. Don't be scared. Just jump in and have some fun.
With a tip or two, you can have those fun changes you've wanted, for a fraction of the cost and in many cases, free! Change a little or a lot. It's all up to you!
The quick and easy, cheap and cheerful changes you'll find here at Jazz it up! will give your environment that pick-me-up you want to give it. Some of these decorating tips are easy and others require the odd calculation. Some might take two or three steps. Some are quite elegant and others are Funky Chic with a touch of gypsy here and there. Don't be scared. Just jump in and have some fun.
With a tip or two, you can have those fun changes you've wanted, for a fraction of the cost and in many cases, free! Change a little or a lot. It's all up to you!
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- Fast and Easy Changes
- Video - Home Tips
- T-Shirts - More Than A Fashion Statement
- Don't forget...
- Amazon - Home Decorating
- Photo It Up!
- Cool Decor on the Cheap
- Don't Pack Up Those Lights!
- Video - Interior Decorating Tips
- Stack Those Books
- Amazon - Fixing the Little Things
- Chic Tips For The Bedroom
- Treat yourself to fresh flowers whenever you can!
- Fan Effects
- DIY Cool Stuff!
- Don't Junk That Junk Jewelry!
- New Igo GREEN Tip of the Day
- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
- You're Worth It!
- New Text / Write module
- Great Stuff on eBay
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- Great Google Blogs
- Have a Great Quick Decorating Tip?
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Fast and Easy Changes
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T-Shirts - More Than A Fashion Statement
Use your coolest Ts to spice up a space!
If you're anything like me, you have those special t-shirts from places you've been or concerts you went to. Great Ts and probably in perfect colors for your unique style!Get those great Ts out and start making good use of them. Hang them on funky padded hangers in groupings on a wall or singly. Chose the best colors and the greatest looks, enjoy them instead of putting them away.
Don't forget to rummage around second-hand shops and charity shops, flea markets and fairs for classic Ts and antique Ts. Some from the 60's and 70's make great wall decorations. Retro anything is in these days.
Use your imagination and have fun!
Don't forget...
to save all your bits and pieces of cool stuff, like material swatches and bits of old jewelry, leather, neat boxes you can cover, wallpaper ends, etc. You never know when you might need them ;)
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Photo It Up!
Dig out those old pictures and create a work of art
Remember all those old black and white photos in the family picture box? Or the photos of your last great vacation? Well dig them out and create a work of art on your wall.You'll need some masking tape.
Now take those photos and choose a focal point on the wall, putting up the first picture with loops of masking tape to hold it. (If you really like the look, later you can buy large poster boards and mount the photos permanently)
You can group them by topic, family, color, style, era, etc. The possibilities are endless.
Even if you don't remember Great Aunt Bertha, or have no idea who this person or that was, they still make great visuals for the eyes and a fantastic conversation starter.
Add those great victorian photo corners to the images for an antique look.
You can do small areas and frame them in pretty ribbon if you're feeling really creative. Or you can do a whole wall, creating a giant mural of photos.
"Don't forget to add color! Glorious color! Be bold! Be fabulous! Try something new!"
Cool Decor on the Cheap
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Don't Pack Up Those Lights!
Never underestimate the power of holiday lights
Make sure to leave out a few strands of your prettiest Christmas lights to sparkle and twinkle when company comes.Strung across the tops of drapes, the lights hide and almost illuminate from behind the top of the drapes.
Randomly draped on a natural item like a branch or bark or even a piece of pipe works, too. Don't forget that these lights are really pretty safe if you use them wisely.
Bunch them up in a pretty bowl on the table or drape them from the headboard or the china cabinet.
Again, the possibilities are endless. Make a mug of coffee and try out a bunch of different places and spaces for those twinkling, sparkling, enchanting fairy lights.
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Stack Those Books
Great uses for old books
Some of the most interesting decor involves old books. Grouped or stacked together, they can make wonderful shelves for plants, mugs and other cool decorative stuff.Take a few stacks of those old paperbacks and put them up your stairs with a pretty plant on each. Or stack some of those dusty old hardcover books in that empty space in the corner and put some pretty candles in holders on them. Make sure to check for hot spots under the candles, or place them on old bathroom or clay tiles.
Books can make create legs for a wood plank shelf. Along a bare area of your wall, place stacks of old books along with just enough room between stacks to stash those great little treasures like that beautiful conch shell you got on vacation.
Stack evenly and lay the plank across the stacks, weighing it down with cool stuff on the shelf. The older looking the plank, the funkier you can dress it up with paint splatters or bright scarves.
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Chic Tips For The Bedroom
Rocking the romance tonight!
Give the old standby a try tonight and drape your room with the scarves you have stashed in your closet. Drape them from the curtain rods, around the lampshades (watch for fire hazard...nothing kills romance faster) and make sure to pay attention to the bed area. Use a nice shawl or those pretty fabrics you have, waiting for the right use. Bring out the good stuff. You and your partner are worth it.Flower petals strewn around are beautiful, but if you don't have petals handy, what are you to do?
Try snipping bits from wrapping paper you may have around. Not quite confetti sized, but bits. Throw them here and there.
To dress up the pillow area, use a pretty towel or handkerchief or piece of material and lay it over the pillow; make sure to tuck any unfinished edges, unless that's the look you're going for. Shabby Chic can be great.
Treat yourself to fresh flowers whenever you can!
Fan Effects
Breezes of Change
For a pretty addition to any room, make yourself a fan light or fireplace screen in just a few minutes.Use left over wallpaper, stiff wrapping paper, old posters or other paper.
In straight even rows, make a fan, the type you learned in grade school, folding the paper first one way and then another. Once you are done, fold the bottom an inch in and secure with staples, tape or glue. Open the fan and secure each side to a slender piece of wood or heavy plastic.
This fan can stand in front of a lamp, a fake fireplace or a row of candles provided you secure it away from the flames.
The light coming through patterned wallpaper is particularly pretty.
Use your imagination, groovy paper, sparkles, beads and other things to decorate lovely fans.
DIY Cool Stuff!
Don't Junk That Junk Jewelry!
Use all your crazy old jewelry to jazzitup
All that fun, but junky jewelry from times gone by can really add a unique touch to a room with a mere twenty minutes here and there.Use strands of beads to drape around the base of a candle holder. Use those strands in a bowl of water with floating candles for company. The beads shine and this makes a wonderful centerpiece.
Use your hot glue gun to glue bits of junk to an old lampshade. Use your imagination and then take twenty more minutes to spray paint (fire proof) it a fabulous color.
Take bits and pieces of broken jewelry and use it in amid a luscious bowl of ripe fruits. The sparkles shining out from between the ripe foods is a sheer delight for the eyes.
Use bits of jewelry on handmade cards and greetings, or thank you notes.
So many possibilities limited only by your imagination.
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Who's got the coolest place of all!
Mirrors can make a room go from drab to fab in a few easy steps.It's all well and good to simply hang a mirror and be done with it. However, if you're feeling like you'd like to have yourself a very groovy little bright corner, you can and so easily.
All you need are two mirrors and a shelf. Place the shelf in an unused corner and hang the two mirrors, one on each wall, so that they sit at right angles to each other. Any light hitting one will be reflected in the other. This makes a perfect spot for plants and beaded strands over the mirrors. Prisms work here, too. The shinier the surface of the shelf, the more light is added as well.
Experiment with different surfaces and use larger and larger mirrors as your space grows. You'll enjoy the new light dances in your room.
You're Worth It!
Freshen it up, jazz it up, make it yours. So often we live in a place that's really not what we're about. Your space in the world has to mean comfort and enjoyment or it might aa well be a hotel room. Treat yourself to little and big changes in your home, make this place in your world one where you can kick off your shoes and show your true colors...no matter what they are.
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Fortunate wrote...
Mortira, that's a fabulous idea. I've been saving a bunch of those (I'm a NG freak) and I'm going to try them as art, or maybe collages, etc.
Thank you for the rating and the reply!
Fortunate
Posted August 30, 2008
Mortira wrote...
My Tip: Fold out Maps
Reuse old National Geographic fold out maps by using them as intersting wall art. Use stick pins to attach photos, beads or other markers to show where you've been or want to go.
5 star lens! I love all the rubbish-saving ideas!
Posted August 30, 2008
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