How to Start Decorating your Home on a Budget

Series Summary

Home decorating is the process of enhancing the aesthetic and functional values of your home or a particular room in your home. There are an incredible amount of furniture stores from various expensive department stores to large and relatively inexpensive retail stores such as Wal-Mart, as well as small rural antique shops. Home decorating does not have to be extremely expensive. There are ways to decorate on a budget that will not break your bank account. These budget decorating ideas are not always intuitive, consequently it is helpful to get advice from someone who knows the inside knowledge. If you would like to learn from someone experienced in decorating on a budget, learn from one of our experts, for free and online.

In this free online video series, learn how to decorate your living room on a budget. Learn how to choose and place a rug in your living room, how to decorate your living room walls on a budget, how to choose and buy chairs and lamps to decorate on a budget, and how to inexpensively decorate your living room with original works of art from local artisans.

Video Transcript

" Hello! My name is Judy Williams on behalf of Expert Village and today we’re talking about different ways to decorate your living room on a budget. The first step to a well-designed room is to consider your largest spaces and the first space is your floor. What I have done in this room is select a semi-antique hand-woven rug that was purchased in Dallas at rug shop. I’d like to show you how to center that rug in your space. What I have done is measure this room and made a determination that I wanted this space pretty much open around the rug. So I’ve selected a rug that just pretty much sits in the center of the room. I’m centering the medallion with the fireplace, which is my focal point. Now I’d like to show you how to center that and easily install that rug. "