Now is a great time to spruce up your home’s interior with some quick design tips that will make your guests think you bought a new house! We tend to spend all of the summer months outside of our houses and sometimes do not pay attention to our home’s interior until it becomes colder outside. With the holidays on their way it’s time to start thinking about all the visitors you’re going to have in your home. Here are three clever plans:

Paint A Room: Painting tools and paint are surprisingly affordable these days and applying paint is one of the easiest ways you can improve your home. You can totally change the look of any space with a new coat of paint. Paint can modify the mood of a room in many different ways. A darker paint color can add warmth while a brighter color can make a room feel more open.

Hang Some Decorative Items: Putting up a shelf, artwork, tapestries or any other decorative elements on a wall is a wonderful way to energize a room. Before mounting anything too heavy on a wall you may want to learn how to find wall studs that can hold up the weight of the object you’re hanging. You may want to think of the walls of your home as a blank canvas, just waiting to be decorated.

Change Lighting: Lighting can come in many forms from desk lamps to surface lamps to track lighting. If you already have lighting installed then you can simply replace your old wall lights with new ones. It’s hard to deny that lighting makes a big impression in any interior space. Bright lighting might make people feel more awake while dimmer lighting can provide a feeling of comfort and calmness.

With a small amount of money and an equal amount of effort you can completely transform any room in your home. None of these interior design projects are very difficult to complete for a do-it-yourself homeowner who is able to use a few common tools. As you can see, a few affordable small home improvements like these can turn a staid space into one of the most exciting parts of your home.

Want to read more about improving your home? You can learn all about the basics of do-it-yourself home improvements at our home improvement site.