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The Free Neighborhood Home Décor Makeover
Copyright © 2005, Pamela Cole Harris
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Watching home makeover shows can make us all yearn for spiffy
new décor in our outdated rooms. But if Trading Spaces doesn’t
call, and your budget only has room for a can of spray paint
from the dollar store, what do you do? You get together with
your neighbors and exchange free makeovers!
Free? Yes, free! Updated your room doesn’t have to cost money!
In fact, its more fun if you have to use your imagination
instead of your checkbook! So if you find a neighbor who is
crazy...no, creative enough to trade rooms, it is best to set
some rules ahead of time:
1. Decide on a time limit. I suggest an afternoon (ending at 5pm)
to encourage quick and cheap redecorating. Remember, more time
equals more money and -depending on your neighbor’s home décor
taste - more damage that can be done!
2. To encourage creativity, agree to spend no money on the
redecoration. Enlist the whole family in “scavenging” for
home décor – leftover paint, old mirrors and frames,
discarded furniture and artwork, pillows, old sheets
and fabric remnants.
3. Promise speak to each other after the rooms are done! No
recriminations and no retaliations! Take the changes in
the spirit of fun!
4. Promise to do nothing to the rooms that cannot be undone
quickly and inexpensively. No knocking out walls allowed!
5. Finally, only trade rooms. No trading husbands or kids!
You will be amazed what can be done by rearranging furniture
or adding splashes of color with leftover paint! For ideas
about what to do http://www.homeandgardenmakeover.com and
http://www.diy-homedecor . Good luck! (I can’t wait to get
my hands on that living room next door! That black paint is
history!)
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Writer's Resource Box:
Pamela Cole Harris has been a writer for over 35 years (Yikes!
Has it been that long?) Her fun, tongue-in-cheek approach to
decorating has made http://www.homeandgardenmakeover.com one of
the most popular décor sites on the net. She brings the same
spirit of fun and practical advice to her newest site at
http://www.diy-homedecor.com.
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