Create a list of tasks, find budget materials and make something with your own hands - tell how to improve your housing conditions by repairing quickly and cheap.
1 Make a list of tasks
It may seem banal and obvious, but a detailed list of what needs to be remade in the apartment will allow you to "eat an elephant in pieces." Get yourself a chalkboard in Trello or just a table on a computer, where to write first large categories: kitchen, bathroom, living room, bedroom, balcony, corridor. Then write all that requires your attention. Allocate in red what prevents normally to live right now, yellow - what annoys and spoils the interior. Green need to mark what you can fix right now, without resorting to purchases and handling to professionals. Do this on the computer is better because so you can store links to ads, discounts and online stores.
For example, you discharged a balcony in the table. On it the landfill from old things blowing out of the windows that cracked the tile on the floor and mold on the ceiling. Green will be clearing and get rid of unnecessary things, cleaning. Red - mold on the ceiling and drafts from the windows. Yellow - ugly tile. Such an approach will give the opportunity to plan all the repair and start improving housing conditions quickly and without extensive costs.
2 Find budgetary materials that are easy to use
It will help to save a reasonable approach to buying materials that you can use without the help of workers. First of all it is wallpaper, paint, primer, putty and related tools. Visit several building stores and ask to show you the wallpapers left a little: they are usually selling at a discount. You will probably have enough remaining for an emphasis or part of it, as well as for decorating, for example, decorating the inner part of the old cabinet. The same story with paint is the latest buckets are selling cheaper, but in this case, be prepared to look for a suitable shade in several stores so that the paints are enough for the whole conceived work.Share acquaintances and read the thematic communities in your city: often in people after repair remains materials that are sorry to throw away, but do not want to store. They are sometimes cheaper than they stand in the store, or at all for free.
What work can be done yourself
- Bloom the wallpaper. It is better to look for light paper options with a simple pattern or without it.
- Paint the walls. Look for water based options with which you can make special decorative elements - irregularities and divorces. So you will get a more interesting and deep effect and get rid of fear that the surface will not be perfectly smooth.
- Laminate and tile. Two budget material that can be learned on their own. And you do not need to be afraid to take different things: for example, you can combine tiles on the kitchen apron.
3 start working with what is
Building markets and shops offer a very wide selection of finishing materials that can be applied not only to walls and ceilings, but also to furniture. For example, you can buy adhesive color film and separate the old cabinet it. Or purchase a small jar of paint and repaint in a bright saturated color of window sills and windows, update chairs and a table. Often, the furniture seems hopelessly outdated and terrible only because of what visually came, and after restoration it looks very different.
4 go around
There are situations when it seems that without the help of workers, do not cope, for example, if you have a poorly lit room and you decide to do something. The obvious decision is to change the wiring, carry out additional conclusions for chandeliers and lamps. Expensive, dusty, difficult and long.
Try briefly to refuse an obvious solution and come up with other options. Maybe you can use floor lamps and table lamps. Or a garland, at the same time adding comfort. Another option is the adhesive diode tapes that perfectly highlight the working surface in the kitchen.
5 do it yourself
Do not be afraid to do something yourself, because you know what your home needs and you can create a beautiful decor without extra charge. For example, try to sew curtains, towels, tablecloth or even bed linen. Make a bedside table from a wooden box or a simple stool of boards. It doesn't matter if it turns out not perfectly - there is its own charm.
6 Ask for help from the state
A complex and long version that is useful to those who have municipal housing or repair problems arose due to external reasons, for example, a mold appeared on the ceiling due to the flowing roof in an apartment building. It is often waiting for such assistance for a long time, and the proposed materials may not be very beautiful, but sometimes it is better than nothing.
