wicker corner desk
How can I decorate my room on a budget? [READ DETAILS]?
I have a tight budget, but I’d love to decorate my room and make it more personal and cosy.
It’s quite large with white walls and ceiling, and dark terracotta-coloured ceramic tiles.
It looks very impersonal.
I can’t change the tiles… but I do like rugs.
The walls are pretty much blank except for one or two picture frames.
In my room, I have a double bed with no bed head, small side table, dresser, small unused desk, 3 wicker drawer set, and a huge blank white wood closet in the corner.
I’m a teenager so I want to turn it into my “retreat” where I can really live.
Painting the walls isn’t out of the picture…
Creative and very detailed answers will get the 10 points.
Thanks! 
PAINT!. do 2 walls either opposite or adjacent in 1 color & the anthr on the others. Do a faux finish. U can do it. Do all u’r walls in 1 color then take 1 wall & faux it. OR jst faux one wall & leave the others white. Like sponging which when after adding glaze to u’r paint or another shade of that paint u can sponge it on.. u can use plastic bags it on…. rags it on or roll it on… or brush strokes it on… or wash it over.. give u’r room some POP. If u can paint then go for it.
Can u paint u’r furniture? Then if u don’t or can’t paint u’r walls.. paint u’r furniture. U can faux those as well. Faux the tops & leave the rest solid or visa versa.
U said u don’t use the desk. how bout using it for doing u’r hair or makeup instead of DESK. U can also put fabric on u’r closet doors.U can do a french board on u’r closet doors.. **c below** OR paint stripes or plaids or circles or flowers..
Like someone said b/4… go to garage sales, flea markets ,thrife stores.. p/u things there. Anything CAN B PAINTED.w/ the rt paint.
U didn’t mention any lights..lamps… u can pick them up as well or if u want to b created.. make u’r own. P/u a lamp that u don’t like cheap for the gutts. Use those gutts to make u’r OWN lamp. Or even hanging lamps. I made 2 hanging lamps out of those small small lamp shades & one out of wire “fruit” basket painted & upside down. U can make them out of anything..wastebasket…wicker basket..things like that.
For u’r headboard… paint one on the wall above u’r bed. Or if u like the canopy thing, check the clearance bins at fabric stores..Walmart, JoAnn’s..etc.. or take a sheet clearanced… if it’s white ..dye it.. then get a lamp hook & hang it from the ceiling. OR.. if u like something w/ POP… ck the clearance material for something u like w/ flowers or designs that u can cut out & corn-starch it on u’r wall so later on it will come off. Or take those canvas that goes on sale 2 or 3 for? & paint them.. solid.. w/ desgin ..& hang them above u’r bed for headboard affect. OR again take material & wrap it around wood scrapes from the lumber cut 2 the size u want in squares, rect or circles or form board or cardboard w/ batting & place as u’r headboard.
Make a board to go on u’r wall for pix of friends & celebrities. Take a cardboard.. u may hav 2 dbl it, wrap u’r favorite material around it… sheet… old shirt… old jeans.. staple it on the back… then put rope, string/ribbon, lace criss cross & stick u’r photos in there or notes.. Make them square.. rectangle.. circle.. start..heart… & velco them on the wall or something of that nature.
What is u’r window covering like? Do u have curtains..blinds..shades? Or do u need those as well. If u have shades.. like the roll up kind… adhere material to them or paint on them w/ fabric paint. so when the shade is down.. u have a design. If u have blinds, u can make valance to go over it… hang CD’s at different lengths.. u can paint them as well. beads.. cloth napkins…cloth tablecloths… cloth placemats over a wood stick or PVC pipe. If u need curtains u can make them w/ old jeans.. t-shirts… material twisted… tablecloths… shower curtains..
Take a color or colors from u’r rugs that u like & put it on u’r furniture or walls… u can paint stripes or circles on u’r walls… hearts..flwrs w/ u’r hands… xxooo… one wall or 2 walls. get clear christmas lts from garage sales etc & string them on the wall above u’r bed or in a circle..star.. or even those running lts. ‘
I don’t know what u’r likes or dislikes r b/c u didn’t really mention that, but don’t b afraid to look at something different at clearance/sales/thrift stores… what would happen if u hung it on the wall instead of what it is s’pose to do… or upside down or sideways.. take a crate or 2 & put it on u’r walls for shelves… those wood crates.. u can paint them as well.
Have fun w/ paint..fabrics.. & sale items. Hint.. Target always has things @ the end of their rows towards the back that r clearance.. u may find some material or pillow there.
Which reminds me… pillows… make them out of t-shirts… jeans…rugs.. etc… if u can’t sew no problem.. can u iron… they have tape that u just iron one end to the other & it’s sealed. Or make a bolster out of u’r t-shirts… make long tube.. stuff… take ribbon,, belts.. rope.. & tie on the ends… firecracker pillow.
Ok… so have i helped u any w/ ideas? Have fun & don’t b afraid. If u don’t like it, u can always take it off or paint over it. Make things POP… u’r young & things should b what u like…that’s what will make it cozy for u.
